1 hour ago, Formynder4 said:

You can't spend a Thrawn dial to clear raid, it doesn't work that way.

Yes and no. You are right, when you reveal a command dial you could discard it to remove all raid tokens. Since Thrawn dials are never revealed you can't use them to clear raid tokens. You can however tokenize your thrawn dial and then discard that token to clear the matching raid token.

Or you could just discard your normal command dial to get rid of all raid tokens and then use the thrawn dial as normal.

1 hour ago, Zamalekite said:

Then on the turn you want to use a squad command you can just spend any token to first cancel the squad raid token

Not "any" command token. Command tokens can only remove matching raid tokens. So you need to discard a squad command token if you want to remove a squad raid token.

Just now, LordCola said:

Not "any" command token. Command tokens can only remove matching raid tokens. So you need to discard a squad command token if you want to remove a squad raid token.

Yes, important clarification. So just make sure you have a squad token on hand to free up the dial when you need it. Fleets with comms net, SSD, Raymus/Yularen/etc don't need to worry as much about it and Tarkin/Garm fleets are just laughing.

Getting the extra obstacle deployment is also nice. So Surprise Assault is basically a combo of 4 annoying factors. If at least 2 are significant then it's a powerful objective.

On 11/5/2019 at 10:52 AM, Triangular said:

A dial can only clear the tokens that are already given. If you use the 3 Thrawn dials only to clear the 3 Raid tokens, than I would say the Surprise Attack would be a counter against Thrawn ...

Better you have some Command token shenanigans.