Activation Phase

During the Activation Phase, players activate their units and may make actions with them.Starting with the player who has priority, players take Yurns activating their units one at a time.

Resolve Abilities or Effects at Start of Activation Phase
Choose a Unit to Activate or Pass
Activate Unit

Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at the Start of a Unit's Activation
Rally Step
Make Actions
Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at the End of a Unit's Activation
Place Order Token

Resolve Abilities or Effects at End of Activation Phase

Choose a Unit to Activate or Pass

The active player chooses to either activate an allied unit with a faceup Order token or to draw an Order token randomly from the Order Pool and activate a unit matching that Order token’s Rank that does not have an Order token. Alternatively, a player may be able to Pass. When a player Passes, they do not activate a unit and their Turn ends.If a player draws an Order token with a Rank that does not have any corresponding undefeated allied units that do not have an Order token, remove that token from the game. Then that player may Pass. If they do not Pass and still have units to activate, they must choose to either activate an allied unit with a faceup Order token or to draw another Order token randomly from the Order Pool.If a player did not Pass on their previous turn this Round, they may spend an Advantage token in their Pass Pool. If they do, they Pass.If a player does not have any units they can activate, they Pass.

Pass Pool

After creating the Order Pool, each player counts the number of undefeated units they control. The player with fewer undefeated units adds a number of Advantage tokens to their Pass Pool equal to 1 fewer than the difference in those counts. Once players have created their Pass Pools, if any, the Command Phase is over, and the Activation Phase begins.

Nick has 8 undefeated units and Ben has 12. The difference between the counts is 4. 1 fewer than that is 3, so Nick adds 3 Advantage tokens to his Pass Pool.

Activating a Unit

When a unit is chosen to activate, it first attempts to Rally, and then the unit may make actions. After the unit has completed its actions, flip the unit’s faceup Order token facedown or assign it the drawn Order token facedown.

Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at the Start of a Unit's Activation
Rally Step
Make Actions
Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at the End of a Unit's Activation
Place Order Token

Cohesion

When a unit leader miniature changes position in any way, all other miniatures in the unit must be put into Cohesion. For a miniature to be in Cohesion, all of the following must be true:

Each miniature must be within of its unit leader. When measuring Cohesion, the range tool may not overlap impassable terrain.
Each miniature must have LOS to its unit leader.
Each miniature must be within a vertical distance equal to the height of the unit leader’s Silhouette of its unit leader.

If a miniature cannot be put into Cohesion, place it as close as possible to its unit leader instead.

Rally Step

Each time a unit activates, it has a chance to Rally and remove Suppression tokens. To Rally a unit, its controlling player rolls 1 white defense die for each Suppression token the unit has. Then its controlling player removes 1 Suppression token for each black/block.png

result rolled.After a units Rally step, if a unit begins its Make Actions step while Suppressed, it makes 1 fewer action during its Make Actions step.If a unit begins its Make Actions step while Panicked, it cannot make any actions or free actions. Then, if a unit did not make any actions or free actions due to Panic, at the end of the unit’s Activation, it removes Suppression tokens equal to its black/courage.png

On Ryan’s turn, he chooses to activate a Rebel Trooper unit with 2 Suppression tokens. After resolving any effects at the start of the Rebel Trooper unit’s Activation, he performs the unit’s Rally step and rolls 2 white defense dice, 1 for each Suppression token. Unfortunately, he rolls 2 Blanks and does not remove any Suppression tokens from the unit.Because the Rebel Troopers have black/courage.png

of 1 and have a number of Suppression tokens equal to or greater than their black/courage.png

, they are still Suppressed and must make 1 fewer action during the Make Actions step of their Activation.Additionally, because the Rebel Troopers have Suppression equal to or greater than double their black/courage.png

, they are still Panicked as well as Suppressed. Therefore, they make no actions or free actions, and at the end of their Activation, they remove Suppression tokens equal to their black/courage.png

Aim: A unit that performs an aim action gains an Aim token which it can use to reroll dice during attacks.
Attack: The unit attacks with its weapons.
Card Action: The unit makes an action listed on its Unit Card or one of its Upgrade Cards. Card actions have this symbol . A unit may make more than one Card action, as long as they are different. A Card action with requires two actions to make.
Dodge: The unit gains 1 Dodge token, which allows it to cancel incoming results when defending.
Free Card Action: The unit makes an action listed on its Unit Card or one of its Upgrade Cards. Free Card actions do not cost the unit any actions to make. Free Card actions have this symbol . A unit may make more than one free Card action, as long as they are different. A unit may only make free actions during their Make Actions step and may only make each instance of a free action once per Activation. Free actions do not allow a unit to make a non-Move action more than once during its activation.
Move: When a unit makes a Move action, it makes a Standard Move or Climb.
Recover: A unit that makes a Recover action removes any number of Suppression tokens from the unit and readies any number of the unit’s exhausted Upgrade Cards.
Standby: The unit gains 1 Standby token, which it can use to make actions in response to enemy actions. Only Trooper units and Ground Vehicles can make the Standby action.