black squadron with predator?

Backstabber!

Backstabber!

I really can't bring myself to like backstabber except as a flanker in a tie swarm. I ususally run my ties as a mini gunline with whatever else they're supporting while soontir, echo or in this case brath wreaks havoc everywhere else

Why not drop night beast and go with backstabber and dark curse? Also Yorr doesn't really help this list much dropping him down to Omicron gives you an extra 3 pts enough for tactician/Mara jade/Vader, or dark curse and Mauler.

dropping both TIEs to academy pilots gives you enough points to put a heavy laser cannon on Rexler. 99 points, it is an option

I'm a bit hesitant to spend points on TIEs these days, personally, although backstabber and dark curse are my favorites

I still think black squadron with outmaneuver is better than predator. Yes, there will be times that you are not out of arc, but there will also be times when you roll 2 hits and predator is wasted. Moreover, the TIEs choice of 2 K-turns or a barrel roll means that you can end up out of an opponent's arc and at close range with some ease. Also helping this out is that you've got 2 major threats that the opponent will be trying to point towards.

Outmaneuver is also a great turret primary counter. With the YT-2400 and the Decimator about join the falcon with a turret primary weapon (yes, even with the decimator in certain circumstances), this will only become more useful.

You could bring "Winged Gundark" and use the remaining 2 points to give "Night Beast" a Targeting Computer. It's something I've really wanted to try out. I know "Winged Gundark" doesn't have a really strong ability. Perhaps instead you could go Black Squadron with Draw Their Fire to keep one of your other ships safe from crits.

Why not drop night beast and go with backstabber and dark curse? Also Yorr doesn't really help this list much dropping him down to Omicron gives you an extra 3 pts enough for tactician/Mara jade/Vader, or dark curse and Mauler.

Yorr lets Rexlar take 1-turns with a focus.

Why have one HLC defender when you can have 2 ?

Yorr + FCS

Defender + HLC

Defender + HLC

I actually played today this, but instead of Yorr + FCS, i used a Doomshuttle. Worked pretty nicely, defenders work well with shuttles.

I don't want to go down to three ships and I'm not a big believer in heavy laser cannon. I do like the idea of dark curse though, he's obviously more defensive but with the extra points I could change the advanced scopes to fire control system. Phantompho pretty much nailed it on why yorr. I also generally like having higher pilot skill. I'm still a little worried about how this list would deal with a whisper though.