2 black sun aces and 2 hlc tansarii point vets comes out to 98 points.

How would you finish this list out? Crack Shot on the aces to pull agro off the hlc-carrying vets? Drop to mangler a and give everyone some EPT's?

I'd give crack and glitterstim to the aces while trying to keep the scyks cheap.

Wow, 2 sub-optimal ships....not making it easy on yourself

I heartily recommend the HLC on the TPV over the mangler. However, I don't think its worthwhile without dice mods. 4 attack dice are only better than 3 when you get to modify the shots every time. And my play experience with the TPV has backed that up. HLC + predator (or push the limit if you prefer) allows the TPV to deal more than one damage every time it shoots. In my list with w/ 2 HLC TPVs using predator, plus TLT on drea (all PS5), if I focus fire on an IG88, with average dice results it loses about 3 shields with autothrusters (more damage without). In 1 turn of shooting! Against Fel, if I can hit him with all 3 ships at R3, the stealth will pop. Granted, its unlikely I will ever put damage on him again after that (because getting a block on Fel with a 3 ship list is hard). But once the stealth is gone, Pred+HLC might kill him later on if I can get him in arc...

And I've had a few game against Han---every time I knock the shields off completely and sometimes deal hull damage despite 3P0 and falcon title shenanigans...

A lot of people don't realize how much damage pred + HLC does. Its not to be trifled with

Having said that, the TPV is an extreme glass cannon and dies quickly. It really can't survive without a hull or shield upgrade. Every single game I've played with the list, I've had both TPVs with 1 hull remaining at some point in the game allowing them one additional shot (if they hadn't taken hull or shield, that shot wouldn't have happened), so its totally worth it, because each shot they take deals damage...

Okay so that was a long-winded way of saying I don't think 2 blacksun aces + 2 HLC TPVs will work. You just don't have enough upgrades to go around. If you do try it though, I would put the crack shot on the aces. Use the TPVs to strip shields, hope a blacksun rolls a crit and use crackshot to get it through green dice (HLC can't deal crits, so less incentive to put crack shot on it)