[Suicide Junkie]

In my games, I always swap the phased& non-phased hitpoints.

Then theres a trade-off. You can have stronger shields, or you can block phased weapons. You can't have it both ways.

I really wish MM would fix the shields so they stack different types properly.

Non-phased have screwed up your phased defence since at least SEIII.
Its really bad when you forget to replace one normal shield on your baseship, and the fleet of baseships gets wiped out by LCs with PPBs.