Editing Armada/Tactics/Confederacy of Independent Systems (section)

===Hardcell Class===

More like hard-sell.  At a moment's glance the Hardcell looks like a cheaper, crummier Nebulon-B, with fewer dice and the the maneuvering chart of the Gozanti.  But this is somewhat unfair; it's not a front line warship and it will never hit the table as one.  What it is, is the only ship in Armada with a three shield arc and fleet support.  It's a backfield support ship with no pretensions of being anything else. 

* '''Transport:''' The basic model with two officers, fleet support, and support team.  Virtually no armament upgrades or retrofits to speak of, but it's the toughest fleet support ship in the game.  
* '''Battle Refit:''' Trades the transport's comedy blue dice for reds.  It gets both offensive and defensive retrofits as well as turbolasers, giving it a slight edge over the Nebulon-B (forgetting that people only fly the Neb because Yavaris).
* '''Titles'''
** '''Beast of Burden:''' Meet Bob the space-cleric.  Bob can spend defense tokens to ready the defense tokens of others.  
** '''Foreman's Labor:''' When you take damage in an arc that still has shield remaining, you can exhaust to reduce the total damage by one.  Basically plugs the Hardcell's biggest vulnerability of being hit in the side by a squadron.