.... can't completly follow you ...The Griffin had since its appearence in CF 1.8 (now with a new design) always only one backwards firing turret as well as Nighthawk and (esp.) Mirage you mentioned. These ships are modeled in their (not only) weapon-layout after the vanilla VHFs, which also had mostly backwards firing turrets as means for defense against attackers at your six , that formed the "standard" layout for VHFs already in the earliest CF versions ... only with the notable exclusion of…