Played my first two games (ever) of Armada yesterday...what a great game!

However, I have a question:

How many sets of 3 fighters do I place for each squadron card? I flew Rebels both times last night.

As you veterans know, the core set comes with only two Alliance squadron cards. Luke, and generic. Is it a "2 for 1" deal? I thought each ship stand of 3 fighters was itself a squadron.

The squadron card just list the stats of said fighters, so as long as you pay the points for each squadron, you only need the 1 card for reference. For example, you take luke and 3 squads of xwings (a total of 4 bases), you only need the luke card and the one generic xwing card. But you must pay the points for each squad (20 for luke, 39 for all 3 x wings). Hope this helps and welcome to the game!

Another question:

I cannot spend the same defense token twice in the same attack; can I spend a combination of tokens on a single attack? I think that's legal if I am reading the rules correctly.

Yes you can, as long as no individual token is spent more than once, and a maximum of one of each type is spent by you.

Another question:

Can you, in the same round, spend a command dial (say you reveal a "Squadron" command) and then spend a squadron token you've had saved?

10 minutes ago, Scopes said:

Another question:

Can you, in the same round, spend a command dial (say you reveal a "Squadron" command) and then spend a squadron token you've had saved?

At the same time

that comes under the “dial and token@ resolution if a command

21 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

At the same time

that comes under the “dial and token@ resolution if a command

Okay, thanks. I also should specify that I interpret that to mean that if my printed squadron value is 2 (on the ship card), the token + the command (which just activates the ability) makes it possible for me to activate up to 3 squadrons. Is that correct?

Yes, you would add the ships squad value and the token (value of 1) for a total of 3 squads