Twilight Imperium

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Important general rules

Secret Objective: can only have a maximum of three along with the scored ones (discard new ones)
Action Cards: have a maximum of 7
Fleet Limit: the command tokens on your Fleet (command sheet) determine the number of ships that can be in one system (- infantry and fighter)
Fighter: cannot remain in one system on its own, need a ship with capacity or are destroyed
Space ports: cannot produce ships when enemy ships are in system but can still produce ground forces
Transactions: a player can make one transaction per turn with each of his neighbors (player in an adjacent system)

transactions are binding and refer to immediate trading of commodities, promisary notes or trade goods
Commodities: can only be used for trading and are transformed to trade goods by trading

Strategy phase: speaker chooses first strategy card, rest in clockwise order
Action phase: each player does one action per round, order is determined by strategy card numbers (initiative order)
Status Phase: players can resolve one public and one secret objective each

public objectives are resolved in order of initiative (value on strategy cards)

game ends if no objective can be revealed, player with most vistory points wins
Agenda Phase: players draw and resolve new agenda

speaker votes last, rest votes counterclockwise, starting with the player left to the speaker

Tactical Action: activate a system (all action will happen related to that system)

movement (move ships into the activated system from whatever system but without picking up infantry/fighters or pausing ships on the way)

space battles

invasion (bombardment and ground combat)

production
Pass: once both Strategy Cards have been used a player can pass on his turn

Order: Start of Combat

Space Cannon

Anti-Fighter Barrage

Declare Retreat

Start of Combat Round

assign hits

End of Combat Round

Retreat

repeat from Declare Retreat until all ships of one player are destroyed

Bombardement

Ground Combat

Space Cannon

Start Ground Combat Round

assign hits

End Ground Combat Round

repeat Start Ground Combat until all infantry of one player are wiped out
Space Cannon: hits once at start of fight

can be used to attack neighboring systems after upgrade (also defend other players or defend your own ships) |
Retreat: declare at the beginning of a combat round after PDS and anti-fighter barrage

move all surviving ships at the end of the combat round to a system with an own ship or own planet, no enemy
Assigning Hits: all rolled hits are assigned (in parallel)
Sustain Damage: damages a ship for one damage (flip it), second damage destroys it
Bombardement: only on non-cultural planets

square tokens that can only be placed in the spaces in the clearings

cannot bombard cultural planet

Planet Shield prevents that

The Ghosts of Creuss: high mobility, slow start (only one carrier), very vulnerable because of double way wormholes