For the Generator part, I mostly ran headlong into Battle, and most of my ships are lackluster in speed (just cant get over the bad taste when covering my whole ship in Thrusters) and I had many early on engagements with an genrator blown appart my a lucky shot from the front or Side.
Yet I dont know how to spread the generators without using too much modded mini generators.
My big battleship has multiple Layers of shielding, it has proven to be well defended against most ships (well not all)
I used the abh shielding, because of the more central coverted Location with same kind of shielding, yeah maybe I should use other one which give more cover in smaler space with overlapping layers. as I studied build in designs they get 2-3 overlaping shields, because if the narrow arc. my Battleship has in some places 4 or more layers.
Still those E-Bolts can get them out of energy.
For my new kind of subfaction Raiders I want to create some heavy fast ships, who focus on firepower rather then shields and protection. (Updating pictures above)
yeah... I noticed in some Mockbattles xD still have to make more room
Btw. I am searching for some mini missile Launchers, for my third Raider... the launchers from Bolt are dealing indirect damage to shield gens, which I dont like.