Living Rules Reference · v2.0
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Initiative Order
Initiative order is the order in which players resolve steps of the action and status phases.
Initiative order is determined by the initiative numbers on strategy cards.
- A player who has the Naalu “0” token has the initiative number 0.
Initiative order begins with the player who has the lowest-numbered strategy card and proceeds to the player who has the strategy card that is next in numerical order.
- Only strategy cards that were chosen during the strategy phase are used when determining initiative order; strategy cards not chosen during the strategy phase are ignored.
When playing with three or four players, a player’s initiative is determined only by their lowest-numbered strategy card.
Source: Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition — Living Rules Reference v2.0 (September 22, 2020), page 20. Rules text reproduced verbatim; the rulebook’s diagrams are omitted.