You're likely going to lose some squadrons during the 3 rounds you're counting on Thrawn against most enemy fleets, so having your entire fleet issuing Thrawn's squad commands is likely to result in some waste by the 3rd squadron dial. You can anticipate the need for a bit of subtlety, though - for example, suppose you're using Thrawn to help you with your squadron commands (which is probably the strongest use of Thrawn, we're getting there!). Because you know what type of dials Thrawn will be giving out and when, it's easy to set your ships to do any other commands except the Thrawn commands for those rounds. Because of that, it's usually preferable to have Thrawn focus on a specific kind of command that you'll usually be expecting to execute starting around round 2 or 3 and using until Thrawn runs out of dials (or meets his premature end when The Smurfs gets canceled). By setting it up that way, your ships can gain the benefit of executing two dial-powered commands during their activation rather than being forced to turn one of the dials into a token (or waste one altogether if they already had that kind of token). To get straight to it: with Thrawn, you ideally want to be handing out command dials to all your ships that none of those ships chose for themselves that round. That said, you can certainly spend or use command dials or tokens provided by Thrawn for non-command purposes, like feeding a boarding team a squadron dial/token, for example. Specifically, a very common mistake newer players make with Thrawn is assuming two command dials of the same type can be spent together for a super command. Given Thrawn's ability is based on command dials, it's important to be familiar with how command resolutions work in Armada. Only the dial that was actually assigned to and revealed by the ship can be used for that. Per the FAQ, you can't discard Thrawn dials to wipe raid tokens.Per the Rules Reference Guide, ships that receive the dials may choose to take the.Keep that in mind for fleet command upgrades that need their disposable token earlier during the Ship Phase.Ships receive the bonus Thrawn dial when they activate.Unlike a regular command stack, the three Thrawn dials can be used in whatever order you like.The Thrawn dials are a secret, so your opponent can certainly guess what you're up to but they won't know for sure until all the dials are revealed.Because Thrawn dials aren't part of a ship's regular dial stack, they can't be messed with by Slicer Tools or any other effect that interacts with a command stack.This is because even though Thrawn himself is gone, the ability he used to provide dials triggered earlier in the round and no longer cares if Thrawn is alive or not.If Thrawn's ship is destroyed later in the round, he still keeps handing out the dial of the round to all his ships from beyond the grave.Once you have no dials left, Thrawn no longer does anything.

Handing out those dials afterwards triggers at the start of the Ship Phase and requires revealing and discarding the dial you want to use, reducing the size of the stack by one.

The decision on which command dials you put in the stack cannot be changed later.That means that if he is for some reason not on the table at that point (perhaps he's on a ship that's set aside for Hyperspace Assault?) then he does literally nothing all game. Thrawn's dial stacking triggers after deploying fleets.Thrawn later in his solo career performing 'Suit & Tie'

Thrawn performing 'It's Gonna Be Me' back in his boy band days Let's finish up the big upgrades of wave 7 by covering the Blue Man Group Grand Admiral Thrawn.

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