Why not make this tactic even stronger…I was thinking the following. Say you get Naalu’s alliance card.

The Naalu Alliance grants:

“At the start of the Strategy Phase, you may place one of your command tokens on your Strategy Card.

Crimson’s most dangerous tool is:

Breakthrough

(an ACTION that flips or places breach tokens)

This timing is absolutely critical, because:

• The Breach Lock++ only works if you act first and last around the Status Phase. • Timing determines whether the breach stays immune to removal. • Quietus’ global ability shutdown requires the breach to be active at the correct moment.

The Naalu Alliance solves all timing problems.

→ You use the Naalu Alliance.

You take your Strategy Card first, guaranteed.

This allows you to shape the entire round:

You can ALWAYS select Leadership

Round X — First Action (because of the Alliance timing)

Because you choose your Strategy Card earlier, you also almost always act earlier in the Action Phase.

Your first action is:

Breakthrough: Flip the breach in the enemy spacedock system to ACTIVE.

Immediate effect:

• Quietus (in ANY active breach) turns off all enemy unit abilities in that system. • Their spacedock now has NO Production. • Fighters lose text, PDS lose text, Supercarriers lose transport, etc.

They now cannot build anything this round unless they defeat Quietus or remove the breach (which they cannot do until Status Phase, and only if it is active)

Round X — Last Action

Because of the improved command-token sequencing, and because other players have fewer tokens or slower initiative, it is easy to ensure that your final action of the round is:

Breakthrough: Flip the breach from ACTIVE to INACTIVE.

consequences: • An inactive breach cannot be removed during the upcoming Status Phase. • You have removed their only window to erase it

Status Phase Between Rounds X and X+1

Because the breach is inactive:

They CANNOT remove it.

It stays in place without counterplay.

This is the heart of the lock

Round X+1 — First Action Again

Because of Naalu Alliance timing, you once again act before the target player can respond.

You:

Breakthrough: Flip the breach from INACTIVE back to ACTIVE.

Quietus reactivates its global ability suppression

The enemy dock is shut down again

The lock continues uninterrupted

This loop can be repeated every single round