We had one situation in our campaign where I asked my self what the "right" way to solve this is? I am interested to read some of your opinions about this situation.

I am the Imp player and we played with 4 Rebels. It happend that in the end phase of a turn i spend my threat for several deployments. I payed the threat and and placed the cards of the groups open in my playarea (not hidden) and told my Rebels what i bought this round. But i forgot to place the models of one deployment card on the board. The Heroes started their turn, decided that they want to ignore all the enemys (cause it was too much to kill) and charged through to the Terminal which was the objective which the Rebels had to activate. So in their first activation their jumped over all enemys and enabled the terminal. Then it was my turn and i decided to activate the group which models I forgot to place on the board. I realised my mistake and wanted to place them on the board when my Rebels protested against that.

The models I forgot would not have influenced the heroes turn in a direct way, they would not have blocked their movement or their line of sight or their decision to ignore all enemys to focus just on the objective. The position i wanted to place them didnt changed at all after the Rebel turn, i had no advantage about forgeting to place the models in any way.

They said i get the threat back which i payed for the models and thats it cause it was my mistake (well it was my mistake). After some debating I accepted this but was angry that this kind of mistakes got judged this hard (was it hard?). The rebels where of course happy that there was one group less on the board and I had 8 unspend thread instead of 1 unspend.

How do you handle such things in your groups?

I've had a few instances when I'm a bit too deep in the whiskey and I forget to spawn a figure from a trigger. As you point out, it's the Imperial Player's responsibility- so, if the trigger would benefit the Rebels, I retroactively apply it. If it would benefit me, I usually just skip it and don't even mention it to the Rebels.

I've had situations I can distinctly recall where I've missed out on spawning Dengar and Vader before. It's definitely frustrating, but it was also totally my fault.

In your situation- I don't think you can necessarily say for sure that the turn would not have been effected. The Rebels may have done things differently if those figures were on the board, even if they weren't directly involved in the action. Maybe your Rebels would've tried to attack them instead of advancing the objective. Given the hidden information nature of the game, it can be tough to get in the Rebels' heads, but I can totally see how they'd be frustrated that you tried to retroactively add units to the game. As far as they're concerned, you could be trying to pull a fast one and bring in units late so they couldn't be killed before their activation, or you were trying to delay their arrival to give yourself more of an activation advantage.

All in all, I think the Rebels suggestion of giving you threat back was the best solution here.

Yeah, you gotta go with game state.

A figure that is to be introduced by trigger has to go on the board. If there's only been one activation of a Rebel you could easily rewind. If more, well fly casual and everyone should try to be cool. However you forgetting to deploy units you bought with threat is ultimately your mistake and is not a game state issue.

Refund the threat for the undeployed units and move on with play.

Orders got scrambled, SNAFU, fog of war and all that.

First, remember - "It's just a game"

Second, it was your mistake so grit your teeth and remember this mistake and play so it's impossible (hopefully) to repeat it. Example: put your new deployment cards on the tiles in a way that you can't continue the game with them in the way.

I've been playing this for a couple years and mistakes still happen. (even without the whiskey)