CMDR Hyford in his Winters colours on the bridge

I tried a different load out with:
3C Gimballed Beam Laser
3C Gimballed Beam Laser
3C Gimballed Cannon
2F Gimballed Multicannon
2F Fixed Pulse Disruptor (Winters supporters only)

It didn't work well. A didn't strip off the shields nearly as quickly and therefore took much longer to kill even NPCs.

I have gone back to:
3C Gimballed Beam Laser
3C Gimballed Beam Laser
3C Gimballed Beam Laser
2F Gimballed Multicannon
2F Fixed Pulse Disruptor

and it is working much better. As a side not I think the pulse disruptor needs to target the sub-modules in order to have an effect. I haven't yet witnessed any noticeable effect so I may switch back to 2F multi cannon.