Star Wars: The Clone Wars FAQ
98 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup
Key Concepts
Turns and Actions
- When do the villain and invasion steps happen?
- Who is the current Jedi for a villain effect, such as Savage Opress's damage?
- Can you perform the same action more than once in a turn?
- Can a Jedi attack the same planet more than once in one turn?
- Can a Jedi's free ability be used more than once per turn, or after the four actions?
- Can a free ability interrupt an action that is already in progress?
- When do exhausted squad cards refresh?
- Can you attack on a space with no enemies?
Attacks and Damage
- In an attack, must you defeat the droids on a planet before the villain?
- Can one attack remove a villain and droids together?
- Do enemies left on a planet after an attack damage the attacker?
- Do you take damage just for ending your turn on a planet with enemies?
- Can you use both assault and stealth cards in a single attack?
- When another Jedi helps an attack, which card type can they exhaust?
- Do assault and stealth cards add damage if the die rolls no successes?
- Can armor cards prevent damage from a mission or a villain card?
- Are successes counted before damage is applied, and do cards lost to that damage still count?
Missions
- How does an attempt at a mission work?
- What damage does a mission deal when it succeeds, and when it fails?
- Do droids on a mission planet stop you from attempting the mission, or damage you?
- Does attempting a mission count as an attack?
- Is the next mission revealed as soon as the current one is completed?
- When the mission deck is empty, where does a completed mission's marker go?
- Must you contribute squad cards to a mission you already know you will fail?
- Do damage symbols or cards count toward a mission's completion number?
- Can a mission use both assault and stealth cards?
- Can successes from one mission attempt carry over to the next?
- Can you attempt a mission on a planet with a blockade?
Squad Cards and Allies
- What happens when you have more than 7 squad cards in hand?
- Can you go over 7 cards in hand during your turn?
- Do exhausted squad cards count toward the hand limit, and can you discard them?
- What happens when a Jedi must take damage but has no squad cards left?
- What happens when the squad deck runs out?
- Can an ally card be played during another player's turn?
- Can C-3PO or R2-D2 help a Jedi on a different planet?
- Can The Bad Batch add successes to a mission attempt?
- Does a Jedi need to be on your planet for an ally card to move them?
- Can you use several transport cards in one turn?
- Can a transport card extend Aayla's or Yoda's movement?
- If you discard an ally card to pay for damage, do you also get its effect?
Invasion and Threat
- What happens when a fourth droid would be added to a planet?
- How much threat does an occupation add when no blockades are left in the supply?
- What happens when a droid or blockade must be placed but the supply is empty?
- When a blockade is placed on a planet with droids, do the droids stay?
- Does a blockade still stop attacks and missions during the finale?
- What does the Planet Under Siege card do?
- When Planet Under Siege adds droids to a planet that already has 2, do you add 3?
- What happens when the invasion deck is empty and you must flip a card?
- What is the top planet that some villain cards mention?
Villains
- Do a villain card's effects still happen when the villain is off the board?
- Does a villain still activate after you defeat it before its finale?
- How do you remove a villain from the board before its finale?
- Can you remove a villain from the board during the finale?
- Does Ventress keep raising threat once her finale side is face up?
- When does Ventress raise the threat marker?
- If Ventress is on a planet with both mission markers, does threat rise twice?
- If Ventress is already on a mission planet when a card moves her to the nearest mission, does she move?
- Can a move that goes one planet toward a mission take Ventress onto the mission planet?
- Can you attempt a mission on a planet with a villain during the finale?
- Can you attempt a mission on a planet with a villain before the finale?
- During a Ventress finale, can you still attack the droids on her planet?
- Do you take damage from a villain left on the planet after an attack?
- Where does a villain start, and how much health does Count Dooku have?
- Can more than one villain be in play at the same time?
- Does General Grievous's Make Them Suffer effect move Jedi on a planet with no enemies?
- What does Grievous's Make Them Suffer step 'invade one planet' mean?
- When the villain deck is empty, do you shuffle the discard before or after resolving the last card?
- Who picks the outcome when a villain card has more than one possible result?
Finale and Winning
- How do the players win or lose?
- Is a villain's finale a mission or an attack?
- When is the finale setup performed?
- Do villain cards and the invasion still happen during the finale?
- Do you need to complete two Dogfights to win the Ventress finale?
- When all the missions are done, where do the mission tokens go?
Solo Play
Fine Points
- Can Anakin's ability treat stealth cards as Assault cards?
- Can Anakin use his free attack during a mission?
- How does Ahsoka's special ability work, and is it an attack?
- Does Ahsoka's free damage count toward defeating a villain in the same attack?
- Can Yoda's free action move another Jedi?
- Can Mace Windu move droids from a planet that has a blockade?
- Can Mace Windu's ability add droids to a planet that already has 3?
- How does the Witches of the Mist Dathomir action work?
- Does Maul move when a card puts him on the top planet and he is already on the board?
- What does Count Dooku's Duel do when several villains are on the planet?
- Is Ventress placed on the board in Dooku's finale?
- What do Hostage Crisis, Tipping Points and Unfinished Business do if the named card is already in a hand?
- Can a Jedi who is not on Dathomir use the Dathomir mission action?
- When Ahsoka's ability exhausts cards for damage, does each card's own attack effect trigger?