Rear firing arcs don't really help the Firespray

Wha... You realize that is the single strongest aspect of the ship, right?

The more Marinealver posts I read, the more convinced I am he owns his own completely different version of X-Wing.

Indeed. The rear firing arcs on the Firespray are literally the entire point of the ship. You force your opponent to chase you - if they want to shoot you, they have to follow you. Then you drop bombs in their face and shoot them back.

It's a hell of a lot of fun.

And when an arc dodger like Soontir comes along and says hi, you get to watch your firespray die.

They still have twice the arcs to dodge, and it's actually a good bit more difficult to dodge the rear arc than the fore, due to how maneuvering works in this game.