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So, my group has started on the Heroes campaign - 4-5 player games most of the time. We're 3 missions in (including the intro mission), and we're all having a blast. I should note that none of us have played X-Wing Miniatures in the standard 100-point game mode, only this campaign mode.

I'm currently running a fairly common X-Wing with R2 Astromech, Pilot Skill 3, and Predator. I really want to try an A-Wing though, and capitalize on Agility: soak up fire for the Y-Wings and maybe a HWK shooting things from afar.

Let's say Pilot Skill 5 (which is when I think the A-Wing starts to get viable). I'm thinking:
Elite 1: Juke
Missile: Cluster Missiles
Mod 1: Stealth Device
Elite 3: Predator ? Outmaneuver ? Push the Limit ? Expose ?
Mod 4: Shield Upgrade
Elite 5: Gemmer Sojan

Every turn I want to acquire an Evade token if I can.

Juke means if I have an Evade token, I change a Defender's Evade result to a Focus result when I shoot. If the TIE has a Focus token, this will almost assuredly force it to convert that Focus back to an Evade, thus "eating" the Focus token. Not bad.

The Stealth Device gives me 4 Evade Dice until I am hit by an attack, then I drop down to 3 again.

Gemmer Sojan makes it so that if I am in Range 1 of any enemy ship, I have +1 Evade dice. So that's 5 against Range 1 ships if I have the Stealth Device active, and 4 otherwise. If someone at Range 3 is shooting at me while there's another enemy ship at Range 1, 6 dice. If they have to go through an asteroid or something... 7 Evade dice That's pretty crazy.

Thoughts?

For the A-Wing, Push the Limit is your friend. Big time. Predator not as much with just two dice. For PS 5, here's where I've went:

Elite 1: PTL
Missile: Proton Rockets
Mod 1: Shield Upgrade or Extra Munitions
Elite 3: Ezra (if your group allows new pilot abilities) or Juke... wired isn't bad either and is cheap if you don't have the XP and want to fill the slot.
Mod 2: Autothrusters
PS 5: Biggs

The combination of Biggs, autothrusters, and base 3 defense dice means that you'll be racking up assist XP by taking one shot for the team almost every turn at range 3 and almost never being hit. This helps to mitigate the weak 2 attack dice. Your squad will also thank you for pulling range 1 shots off of them and then you basically ignore a range 3 shot.
After that... modifications should be stealth device or shields.
For PS 7 Garvin and Lando are great for getting more assists and once again, if your group allows new pilot abilities, Hera's ability is crazy good for an A-Wing and all of the green maneuvers. Outmaneuver is good, but I can't justify taking it because by the time another Elite slot opens up, top pilot abilities like Wedge, Tycho, Wes, Airen, etc are no-brainers.

Thanks for the feedback!

I agree with Griff... your job is to lead the squads of TIE's around by the nose.