Surprisingly find myself agreeing with Sig on half of his viewpoint; although I agree with the idea of 2 hit escorts, no one in their right mind is calling that conservative. It is a big change to the fundamental reality of what constitutes and escort in the context of the BGF rules. Some ships, like the rampart, are now 2 hit 2 shield escorts; the amount of firepower required to destroy a squadron of four of these is....well, I have not done the math, but frankly, they probably take more concerted firepower than a grand cruiser to eradicate. That's 8 hits and 8 shields to go through...
Having 2 hit escorts be destroyed by critical hits like regular ones stops them from overshadowing their smaller brethren.