The Command Table in Shadowlands is unlocked as an upgrade from Sanctum.
Once you gain access to your Covenant's Sanctum upgrades in Shadowlands, you'll notice that one of the options is the Adventure Command Table. Building will cost you 1000 Anima and 1 Redeemed Soul, but you'll farm them during the first chapter of your Covenant's Campaign as part of the general tutorial. Once you have selected the command table and decided to build it, you will need to wait an hour for the build to complete.
Once completed, your Command Table will become accessible in your Sanctum (the large vertical diamond with an orb in the center of your map and minimap). Your first Soulbind will act as your first companion, and you can recruit more by completing Covenant campaign quests and from Torghast. They always progress as you send them on missions, but the command table has a more "tactical" setup that you need to consider.
Instead of a percentage-based system based on sending companions with recommended abilities, the command table in Shadowlands features a miniature automatic fighter. You will see a field of enemies above and you can place up to five companions by your side. Each companion has an ability or two, and you'll want to know how each works, and how many turns it takes to break the cooldown. Command table missions are always time based, but each turn will run in the background as the timer ends. You want your team to be the last.
Remember, you need a named companion to even take on a mission. You can send a few generic companions, but you can add as many as you want to a mission. The mission will cost more Anima for each companion added, so you don't always want to stack the deck, but as long as you have enough health to survive enemy attacks, and enough damage to kill them all before you can. they can't, you succeed. It's always important to take the battlefield into account (if your enemies have a healer in the back row, you'll want someone attacking the enemy farthest from them in your line-up).
You can earn Anima, Gold, Equipment, and even Soul Ashes from your Command Table, so make sure you always have your companions on missions, if only for improve them. You can track and control your command table through the official World of Warcraft mobile app if you can't log in for the day. Upgrading your Command Table will cost more Anima and Redeemed Souls. The first upgrade will increase companion recovery rate by 25%, and the second will reduce mission completion time by 25%. Nothing required, but these upgrades will make your command table in Shadowlands more efficient in the long run.
