Star Wars: Rebellion

Each round has Assignment, Command and Refresh phases. During Assignment, the Rebels assign first, then the Empire: place mission cards face down with one or two leaders on each, leaving other leaders in the pool. To reveal a mission, its assigned leaders must collectively meet the printed matching-skill requirement; otherwise it cannot be revealed.

The Rebels take the first Command turn, then sides alternate revealing missions or activating systems with pooled leaders who have tactic values. Ships can enter from multiple adjacent systems, carrying ground units and transport-restricted fighters within capacity. Units normally cannot leave a system containing a friendly leader; captured Rebel leaders do not impose this restriction. After passing, you cannot reveal missions or activate systems again that phase, but pooled leaders can still oppose missions or join a defense.

A mission saying “attempt” can be opposed; one saying “resolve” cannot. An opponent may send one pooled leader to the chosen system. If no opposing leader is there, the mission succeeds automatically; otherwise each side rolls for its matching skill icons. The acting side must obtain strictly more successes: a tie fails. A matching assigned leader portrait can add successes. Starting missions return to hand after use; other missions are normally discarded.

Combat requires opposing units in the same system and theater. Each combat round resolves space battle, ground battle, then possible retreats under the rules. Roll red and black dice according to unit attack values. Normal hits target matching-color health, direct hits can target either health color, and special results are used for tactic cards. Units destroyed in that theater during the round still attack. Remove surviving units' damage at the end of combat.

The Rebels gain reputation by fulfilling and playing objectives at their specified times, at most one objective per combat and one per Refresh Phase. Move reputation toward time by the value on the card. The Rebels win immediately when the markers share a space. Imperial victory requires a revealed base, Imperial units in its system and no Rebel units there at all; eliminating ground forces alone may not be enough. The Death Star destroying the base's system is a separate immediate-victory exception.

The hidden base is recorded by a secret probe card; the Rebel Base space is distinct from the actual system. Imperial loyalty or ground units in the system force the base to be revealed, moving every unit and leader from the Rebel Base space into that system. Imperial ships alone do not reveal it. Revealing the base does not itself mean Imperial victory.

Rapid Mobilization relocates the base only at the end of Command, before Refresh. Draw four probe cards and optionally choose one legal new system. It cannot contain Imperial loyalty, Imperial units or a destroyed system marker. Give the old base card to the Empire; units and leaders from the old Rebel Base space stay in the old system rather than teleporting to the new base. This mission can establish a new base even after the old one is revealed.

During Refresh, retrieve leaders; each side draws two missions and reduces its mission hand to ten; the Empire draws two probe cards and the Rebels one objective. Advance time one space and recruit or build if its icons allow. Build only in systems not blocked by enemy units or sabotage. Use all resource icons in loyal systems, but only the leftmost icon in subjugated systems, placing units on the indicated build-queue spaces. Then slide the whole queue down one; units leaving space one can deploy, only to your loyal or subjugated systems, or the hidden Rebel Base space for the Rebels, at most two per system that phase, never into systems containing enemy units or sabotage markers.