ljb135 Sorry for the late reply. As mentioned above, broadsiders are borked atm, so until they're fixed I'm going to hold off on editing them.
TheLastBeacon
The improved ship:
The result:
What I did:
I'll keep mentioning it every time I see it, keep reactors apart to prevent chain exploding, in the screenshot above you can see just how much it compromises the ship.
Missiles will damage stuff behind shields these days, so having some forward shields that only have armor in front should help mitigate missiles that make it through the PD.
Added tons more missiles, you just can't beat that round the back damage. You could swap them back to lasers if you'd like, but just having some flanker ships to pin enemy flankers would work better.
Added some protection and efficiency to forward weapons.
Hope the ship and info prove useful!