Official rule text
10 KEY CONCEPT: COMMAND SHEET Successfully navigating the action phase in Twilight Imperium requires careful management of command tokens. When a player gains a command token, they place it in any one of three pools: the tactic pool, the fleet pool, or the strategy pool. TACTIC POOL During the action phase, players may spend command tokens from their tactic pool to perform tactical actions. FLEET POOL Players place command tokens in their fleet pool with the ship silhouette faceup. Players do not spend these command tokens like the command tokens in their other pools. Instead, the number of tokens in a player’s fleet pool is the maximum number of ships, excluding fighters, that they can have in each system. If a player ever has more ships in a system than they have tokens in their fleet pool, they must return ships from that system to their reinforcements until the number of ships in that system no longer exceeds the number of tokens in their fleet pool. STRATEGY POOL Most of the secondary abilities on strategy cards require a player to spend a token from their strategy pool to resolve the ability. Players will want to keep tokens in their strategy pool so that they can use the secondary abilities of the other players’ strategy cards. STRATEGIC ACTION