Indeed. Instead of feeding the Jesters with Auroras and sending in single interceptors he should have build ~8 mobile T1 AAs and store his interceptors That was a really bad performance and there wasn't any thrill, too. So we now know how to fail horrible bad vs. Jesters... and?
Really, I thought my little gunship buddy was toast, but I'm glad he survived... that flying PD saved my butt.
Enjoy