Does the new wording on Genius make him a very poor choice to pair with Bomblet Generator?

• Original: If you are equipped with a bomb that can be dropped before you reveal your maneuver, you may drop the bomb after you execute your maneuver instead.
• First Errata: If you are equipped with a bomb that can be dropped after you reveal your maneuver, you may drop the bomb after you execute your maneuver instead.
• New Errata: After you reveal and execute a maneuver, if you did not overlap a ship, you may discard one of your equipped Bomb Upgrade cards without the "Action:" header to drop the corresponding bomb token.

The new wording expressly states that the bomb upgrade card needs to be discarded! Does this mean that once Genius poops out a Bomblet, that's it for the upgrade for the rest of the game?

yeah, pretty much. You could probably give it a one-time-use by loading extra munitions on the bomblet generator, but throwing points at a problem has never been the solution.

OK, so I'm not crazy, that's how I read it too. I guess the Nym magic bomb machine is dead. Good riddance.

Wow, he really is a genius.

I really don't think that was intended.

26 minutes ago, Stoneface said:

I really don't think that was intended.

Pretty sure it is. It's a very deliberate change.

Extra Munitions to get up to 2 genius-bomblets~

Time to put those scavenger cranes to use and snag it back up after something goes boom

And this is the very confusion I expected to see when I read the change. Why not simply restate "Genius" to not allow you to drop the bomb if you bump executing your maneuver.... solves the bump drop grind.... over correction is still missing the target

10 hours ago, DR4CO said:

Pretty sure it is. It's a very deliberate change.

If this is the case, WOW!

The Devs must have been in a really bad mood when they grabbed the nerf hammer. I think that's the most red I've seen in an FAQ since I started playing the game.

My local forums, podcasts, and FB groups have been filled with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth about this. This just promotes other interesting builds with Nym and possibly another mech other than Genius. Or possibly just using Genius with action bombs and extra munitions. This just means that bomblet generator won't be the auto-include for bombers anymore.

Genius doesn't work with aciton bombs.

Using r4-e1 on the other hand...

The thing is, a bomb that doesn't get discarded is already pretty powerful. It seems to me that having to discard it is simply the trade-off for using it out-of-sequence. You get to choose whether you want to drop infinite bombs before your maneuver, or if you want to give up that ability in order to drop a bomb in someone's face after moving. As far as I can see, this nerf is perfectly reasonable and doesn't really kill either card (though it may make taking both of them together less popular).

12 minutes ago, JJ48 said:

The thing is, a bomb that doesn't get discarded is already pretty powerful. It seems to me that having to discard it is simply the trade-off for using it out-of-sequence. You get to choose whether you want to drop infinite bombs before your maneuver, or if you want to give up that ability in order to drop a bomb in someone's face after moving. As far as I can see, this nerf is perfectly reasonable and doesn't really kill either card (though it may make taking both of them together less popular).

I agree. Bomblett is already a very good card without genius: considering the main rebel and scum bombers can take it with crwe benefits (K wing/Scurrg/occasional Quadjumper) its not too bad. I never actually ever got a chance to use bomblett with Genius before the FAQ: I had a blast, (pun intended): its a very fun card to use, dropping at afterwords just takes the fun out of it anyways.

And the squad's weren't awful either. They may have not been top tier (but that's why they nerfed the JM5K no?), but they weren't terrible by any means, and were still fun, dangerous and competitive (at least I like to think )

Best,

Cow

NymGar is the reason for that nerf but they both got nerfed haha

15 hours ago, Kalandros said:

NymGar is the reason for that nerf but they both got nerfed haha

Nymgar, Nymiranda, NymDash... yeah.