Boarding Troopers

To resolve this card’s effect, you must discard a dial or a token (your choice), then also discard this upgrade card regardless of if you discarded a dial or token.

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To resolve this card’s effect, choose the defense tokens to be spent, then spend those tokens (one at a time).

A defense token cannot be chosen more than once while resolving this effect.

The defensive tokens are “spent” out of the attack sequence and thus do not resolve their effects. Any defensive tokens chosen that are “readied” are flipped to the “exhausted” side, and any defensive tokens chosen that are “exhausted” are discarded.

If a ship equipped with Boarding Troopers also has the faceup damage card Faulty Countermeasures which reads “You cannot spend exhausted defense tokens.”, then you cannot choose to spend and discard an opponent’s “exhausted” defense tokens, you can only spend “readied” defense tokens.