Gil’s Used Carsales: Hardcell Class
17th July 2025
Gil Gunderson
6 mins
It’s Old Gil Gunderson here and due to a garbled sub-space transmission we’ve ended up over-stocked on some Clone Wars era Separatist Hardcell transports. The Techno Union made the space version of the Pinto, with fuel-cells on the outside so obvious even a the most petulant of Padawan’s can figure out where to shoot.
Keep it together Gil, make the sale first.
Let’s talk features – as usual this thing comes in two flavours, Transport and Battle Refit. There’s only a three-point* difference between the two ships but there’s lightyears between the two. Both ships have Evade, Brace and Redirect, five hull and for shields it has 3 forward, 2 aft, and 1 on the sides protecting the aforementioned fuel cells. Each has a command value of 1 and an engineering value of 3…but we’ll need to get into the individual flavours from here to simplify things.
The Transport is your up-gunned support ship – though that’s not saying a lot about the guns which is limited to two reds and a blue out the front, a single blue out the sides and anti-squadron. It has a squadron value of 2 and comes with two crew, support team, and fleet support slots.
And who doesn’t want a support slot? It makes it seem like the ship has satellite tv.
Meanwhile the Battle Refit has 3 reds out the front and single out the sides, and blue/black for anti-squadron, has a squadron value of 1 and brings an offensive retrofit, a defensive retrofit, and a Turbolaser.
You can take this thing into the fight if you’re willing to spend the points on the upgrades – but if anyone gets a sneak peek at that side of yours then you’re gonna end up with a bunch of speed holes to make the car – sorry ship – go faster. But you’ll void the warranty..
If you got the extra points why not invest in some of the premium titles for your ship? Beast of Burden is the perfect support ship that pairs well with General Grievous play or refresh tokens spent for things like Turbolaser Reroute Circuits…or maybe you just find yourself playing against that greedy jerk Emperor Palpatine who just wants all your tokens.
If it looks like you’re going to be getting a bit too close to the enemy and need just one more opportunity to save yourself you might want to look at Foreman's Labor.
Please say you’ll buy a couple of these - I really need this and it’s not like there’s any other small ship you guys can take right? Plus it’s tax time and I think I’m in for a bit of trouble this year. I mean you work and slave and steal just enough for a sweet lick of that shiny brass ring. Don’t I get a lick? Doesn’t Gil get a lick?
- Gil Gunderson