I have been making customs that make huges more fun and viable. I doubt its a direction people would be willing to take the game, but i personally like that it makes vehicles more useful, and give them a vehicle feel.

The basic mechanic is a special ability that gives adjacent allies with mounted weapons the troop cart ability, and then a secondary effect that allows the piece being carted around to give the troop cart character a bonus. Examples include: while removed from play, this character can replace his attack to provide adjacent ally with troop cart +4 defense and shields 2.

Then, i created commanders CE's that give pilots access to these powers. It makes pilots feel like pilots, and gives them a benefit when they get behind the wheel. I think its a mechanic we should have had since day one.

Likewise, you can give some characters "co-pilot", and give a troop cart an added bonus if he removes both a pilot and a co-pilot from play.

Like i said, it adds a new layer to the game, so i doubt it would every be used, but i just wanted to offer the concept... you never know.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ewok_Handler

I love this guy! Give him Ewok reserves/reinforcements and make ewoks expode on contact with the enemy! A very gonzo piece. Too bad they never made a Malakili piece. Perhaps a Gamorrean would be a good substitute.

thats what im talkin bout

Agreed. A great, great idea. The implementation needs some refinement, though, to make it easier to understand and well-costed. (But that's what that design team does best!)

My original idea was to have specific pieces with a CE that gives allies with mounted weapons Troop Cart. In further thought, it really needs to be a special ability that does this, and not a CE, as i don't think passengers should get ejected by disruptive.

Once the mounted weapons unit has Troop Cart, the fun begins. Here are a few suggested abilities to make it feel like the pieces being troop carted are actually in control of the vehicle, and benefit it with their own ship-to-ship skills and abilities:

Wingman While removed from play by the Troop Cart special ability, this character gains the following: Replaces attack: Adjacent ally with Troop Cart gains +4 attack +10 damage until the end of the round, or until this character returns to play.

Maximum Firepower While removed from play by the Troop Cart special ability, this character gains the following: Replaces attack: Adjacent ally with Troop Cart gains + 20 damage until the end of the round, or until this character returns to play.

Defensive Formation While removed from play by the Troop Cart special ability, this character gains the following: Replaces attack: Adjacent ally with Troop Cart gains +4 defense and Shields 1 until the end of the round, or until this character returns to play.

Stay on the leader! While removed from play by the Troop Cart special ability, this character gains the following: Replaces attack: Adjacent ally with Troop Cart gains +4 attack and Accurate Shot.

Co-Pilot If an ally removes both a Pilot and a Co-Pilot from play with the Troop Cart ability, it gains +2 Speed until either character returns to play.

A few select pieces could give out troop cart to mounted weapons, and then reword pilots with special abilities like those listed. I think it would make the pilot special ability actually mean something, make larges more competitive and playable, and make vehicles feel less like units and more like the ships they represent.

I like the idea of helping out the "vehicles". I think it should be kept simple. Something like...

Co-Pilot (When this character starts it's turn adjacent to a non-droid, huge or larger character with Mounted Weapon, it can be removed from the battle grid. The Mounted Weapon character gains +4 attack as long as a Co-Pilot is removed from the battle grid. This character can activate to give the Mounted Weapon character one immediate attack. This character may return to the battle grid, in any legal square adjacent to the Mounted Weapon character, at the start of any round."

Desert Skiff would be more appropriate, as you count range +1 from the huge.
This goes better with vehicles where the characters would generally be inside a cockpit.

Put this one on a Wookiee or Yuzzem or other physically-strong character:

Character Throw Replaces attacks: Remove adjacent lower-cost small character from the battle grid. Range 6; 20 damage, target is considered activated this round; save 11. Huge and larger characters ignore the nondamaging effect. Return the small character to the battle grid adjacent to target, 10 damage to small character.

Glossary:
Instead of making its normal attack, this character can throw an adjacent lower-cost small character (enemy or ally) at an enemy within 6 squares, causing damage to both the thrown character and the enemy. Remove the small character from the battle grid before making the targeting decision. Return the small character to the battle grid adjacent to the target. If no adjacent space is available, place the small character as close to the target as possible. If the small character is placed on a pit space, it is defeated immediately.