Talk:Imperial Assault Carrier Expansion Pack/@comment-212.93.55.34-20151123124102/@comment-37.220.132.38-20151124101358

My guess is 'allocating energy' is in the energy phase, after the 'gain energy' subphase: you can distribute energy tokens among upgrade cards. So special action or attack-modifier upgrade does not count as 'allocationg energy' (even if they may use energy somehow).