Looking at the spread and in particular the quickbuild card for the "Mining Suveyor" it is equipped with 2 elite pilot talents: "Swarm Tactics" & "Trick Shoot", does that mean it can equip two elite pilot talents or may quickbuild cards break all rules?

Doubtful. The Fang Fighter quick builds had modifications and they have no mod slot. Quick build cards are a different kind of game play - don't use them as examples of anything you can do with the points build version.

Just now, Bad Idea Comics said:

Doubtful. The Fang Fighter quick builds had modifications and they have no mod slot. Quick build cards are a different kind of game play - don't use them as examples of anything you can do with the points build version.

Good to know!

Gold Squadron Podcast interviewed Frank Brooks at GenCon and (among other things) they specifically talked about quickbuild cards and how they don’t always follow the normal squad-building rules. So just because a quickbuild card shows certain upgrades equipped to a ship doesn’t mean that ship can actually equip those upgrades in regular play.

Quickbuild cards sit upon a throne of lies.

You cannot trust them.

2 hours ago, Boba Rick said:

Quickbuild cards sit upon a throne of lies.

You cannot trust them.

They're a different game system in and of themselves. At best they give us an idea how the designers think a chassis should be used. All bets off when it hit Standard mode though.

Yeah, the quick builds cheat the slot requirements in order to make each ship (more or less) a multiple of 25 points.