You know Night Beasts ability:

Get a free action after a green manoeuvre was made.

Right now he is quite ok with Focus and Evade or Barrel roll and focus or Barrel and Evade.

But wit Aces there will be a new modification available: Targeting Computer (2 points)

This means for +2 points Night Beast will be able to TL + Focus in a single turn!

This makes him more valuable then Mauler Mithel for the same 17 points.

Will Night Beast will see more action in future? Will you enlist him?

He's been a staple in our groups meta for awhile....I call him Vader lite.

Night beast can only focus for free. That does give him a near guaranteed two hits with a targeting computer though so that certainly is nice. Night beast has always been good, just not impressive enough to go out of your way for.

I don't belive that wasteing a modification for TL is worth it. Now on the attack side yea it sounds good, but on the numbers game of getting a full attack+focus the percentage is 75%. Now granted that if you got a blank TL would give you that 75% chance of getting a full hit with two or three dice(depending on range.) Now with all of that info you forgot about your defense against the average 3 attack dice with rebel ships and they have the same advantage with attack+focus 75%. Night Beast is a great pilot but stacking focus and evade would be the better stack.

correction: Night Beast ("only") gets a free Focus Action after the green.

Still, will make TL and Focus possible now. For 17 points almost sure 2 hits vs possible 4 hits (and 2 very likely hits) with Mauler. The chances to score at least 2 hits should be roughly the same (probably slightly in favor for the enhanced NB), with MM able to get 4 hits; BUT MM needs to be close for that trick, and if you place NB that close you will do better.

So I believe that NB will take over the place of MM in lists with MM

Night Beast + Targeting Computers isn't as nice to me as Night Beast who Barrel Rolled or Evaded. If I'm spending 18 points on a Tie, it's going to be Howlrunner.

What really hurts him is the existance of 16 point Tie Bombers.

Targeting Computers look really nice on a Mauler Mithel with PTL, though..

I like him just as he is now. He's a great defender when needed, hits hard when the opportunity presents, and is "under the radar" as far as opponent priority is concerned. Check out the "Developing List: Baron's Focus" for build and reports.

Ok you got me. Its a free focus action, not a free action.

I use him too, with focus and evade most opponents hesitate to attack him - so he lives longer as his fellows. But with TL + focus he would prpbably too threadening, and thus an attractive target of enemy laser beams.

I use him to get a focus token in that inevitable pileup in the middle of the table.