Max operatives number

Normal Four-Operator Deployment

For ordinary Tactical Missions, plan around four operators. StarWars.com's launch guide explains each operator's action points and the team-of-four model. That is the useful stable rule for role coverage, positioning, healing, and damage, rather than counting every friendly figure seen in a story mission.

Scenario-Specific Extra Control

These are scenario-specific exceptions, not proof that a player can freely deploy a permanently larger standard squad. Treat a guest, story ally, or special objective unit as part of that mission's authored rules.

Roster Size Is Different

Do not confuse deployed squad size with the wider campaign roster at the Den. This page is indexable because the core conclusion has corroborating first-party records.

Build a normal mission around four roles rather than trying to derive a larger number from a cinematic or an objective scene. The launch guide's four-operator wording is the operational rule for positioning, action-point use, cover, healing, and damage choices. It is also the right number to use when comparing a class guide or planning which character specialties need to coexist in one deployed group.

Do not equate a temporary story ally with a freely selected fifth roster slot. The Den roster is another number again; campaign capacity and normal mission deployment solve different player decisions and should never be merged into one cap.

The four-operator rule also makes the player-facing trade-off concrete. Use the actual mission briefing and operator abilities when selecting the four. When a story mission adds control of another character, reassess action economy and objective rules for that encounter instead of assuming that the normal role plan or cap has globally changed.

Read the mission briefing before deployment because an exception can alter which units are controllable. The published four-person rule remains the baseline, but the active scenario determines its special-case handling.

Mission rules shown before deployment are the final authority for that encounter, even when the campaign's ordinary squad rule is four.