Someone posted this on the reddit page.

Any official consensus from the judges as to how the next couple regionals/opens will be ruled? Chicago way or the other way?

Genius: After you reveal and execute a maneuver, if you did not overlap a ship, you may discard 1 of your equipped Upgrade cards without the "Action:" header to drop the corresponding bomb token.

Trajectory Simulator: You may launch bombs using the ( 5) template instead of dropping them. You cannot launch bombs with the "Action:" header in this way.

If you tilt your head to the right, it kinda looks like Mickey. **** you Disney!

I don't see how you can rule it doesn't work, seems very clear.

5 hours ago, Stay On The Leader said:

I don't see how you can rule it doesn't work, seems very clear.

Agree sim says "instead of dropping them" and genius says "drop".

I am more curious if the judges reach an internal consensus or if its going to be case by case for future tournaments.

Judges do have a consensus: it works. However, it is completely abusive, and I hope FFG addresses it quickly.

PS 11 with the ability to reposition or just get wrecked.

It sure has slimmed down my list-building options!

The existence of deflective plating for the BSF (which has a red stop) would imply that it cannot be dropped after moving with Genius. I realize my ruling is based on inference and the design of the ship/pack that Trajectory Simulator came with.

It is pretty abusive & absurd for Nym/Sol Sixxa to do a white 4 forward, and launch a bomb 5 forward. That a total of 10 template lengths between the starting position of Nym/Sol Sixxa and the resulting bomb.

FAQ please FFG.

There is nothing in the wording of the cards that would prevent Genius from working with Trajectory Simulator.

However, this is just as bad, if not worse than, Asensors Nym's bomb bubble.

Bombs that require you to be PS 11+ to not have your Agency burglarized in front of your eyes and **** over entire archetypes cannot exist in the game without player counts plummeting due to the mechanic being not fun to play against.

Hopefully FFG releases an emergency FAQ to address this.

7 minutes ago, RunnerAZ said:

The existence of deflective plating for the BSF (which has a red stop) would imply that it cannot be dropped after moving with Genius. I realize my ruling is based on inference and the design of the ship/pack that Trajectory Simulator came with.

It is pretty abusive & absurd for Nym/Sol Sixxa to do a white 4 forward, and launch a bomb 5 forward. That a total of 10 template lengths between the starting position of Nym/Sol Sixxa and the resulting bomb.

FAQ please FFG.

The existence of Deflective Plating on a ship that can't take Genius has very little to do with how Genius works, in my opinion.

Those Scum can do a red 5 straight before launching, to make your example even more impressive.

1 minute ago, Kaptin Krunch said:

There is nothing in the wording of the cards that would prevent Genius from working with Trajectory Simulator.

However, this is just as bad, if not worse than, Asensors Nym's bomb bubble.

Bombs that require you to be PS 11+ to not have your Agency burglarized in front of your eyes and **** over entire archetypes cannot exist in the game without player counts plummeting due to the mechanic being not fun to play against.

Hopefully FFG releases an emergency FAQ to address this.

Summer 2019

16 minutes ago, Kaptin Krunch said:

There is nothing in the wording of the cards that would prevent Genius from working with Trajectory Simulator.

However, this is just as bad, if not worse than, Asensors Nym's bomb bubble.

Bombs that require you to be PS 11+ to not have your Agency burglarized in front of your eyes and **** over entire archetypes cannot exist in the game without player counts plummeting due to the mechanic being not fun to play against.

Hopefully FFG releases an emergency FAQ to address this.

They already FAQd genius, he discards the bomb so no more bomblets.

Having flown against it, even in just a friendly game with a pal, it was patently un-fun.

I sure am glad this hasn't popped up in the local meta yet...

53 minutes ago, Mynock Delta said:

Judges do have a consensus: it works. However, it is completely abusive, and I hope FFG addresses it quickly.

But that trick works, at the absolute most, 2 4 times. Then you've got no bombs, no droid, and no system.

Is it really that bad?

4 times.

Just now, Sekac said:

But that trick works, at the absolute most, 2 times. Then you've got no bombs, no droid, and no system.

Is it really that bad?

4 times, 6 times if they really try for Sabine. (EM and 2-3 bombs)

Alternatively, 2 times and as many times as they want for the normal Launching (non-genius)

How many lists can eat 4 proton bombs to the face? Not ******* many.

1 minute ago, Kaptin Krunch said:

4 times, 6 times if they really try for Sabine. (EM and 2-3 bombs)

Alternatively, 2 times and as many times as they want for the normal Launching (non-genius)

How many lists can eat 4 proton bombs to the face? Not ******* many.

Oh you're right. Except he can't do Sabine and genius so not 6 times.

4 Proton bombs is a lot... but so is 13 points to spend on it. I dunno...I haven't faced it yet so I can't say.

3 minutes ago, Kaptin Krunch said:

4 times, 6 times if they really try for Sabine. (EM and 2-3 bombs)

Alternatively, 2 times and as many times as they want for the normal Launching (non-genius)

How many lists can eat 4 proton bombs to the face? Not ******* many.

Nope only 4. Can’t have Sabine if you have Title. We’re saved! ....

30 minutes ago, tortugatron said:

Nope only 4. Can’t have Sabine if you have Title. We’re saved! ....

Sabine is on the other ship.

2 minutes ago, AlexW said:

Sabine is on the other ship.

He was mentioning Sabine for the additional bomb slot so can hit 6 bombs. That doesn't work.

1 minute ago, AlexW said:

Sabine is on the other ship.

Yes Alex. I was referring to chucking 6 bombs with genius which can’t be done due to the title. I was ninja’d before pointing this out anyway. Sabine better be on the other ship or you’re doing it wrong! Tell Tim and Josh that they need to get on this trajectory thing before it gets nerfed.

Just now, kris40k said:

He was mentioning Sabine for the additional bomb slot so can hit 6 bombs. That doesn't work.

Good point.

3 minutes ago, tortugatron said:

Yes Alex. I was referring to chucking 6 bombs with genius which can’t be done due to the title. I was ninja’d before pointing this out anyway. Sabine better be on the other ship or you’re doing it wrong! Tell Tim and Josh that they need to get on this trajectory thing before it gets nerfed.

Tim is concerned about how it will be ruled since it is entirely possible that an FFG connected judge could call it the other way. Meta Josh is all in.

28 minutes ago, AlexW said:

Tim is concerned about how it will be ruled since it is entirely possible that an FFG connected judge could call it the other way. Meta Josh is all in.

I’m a judge and I’m calling it like most of the world. It works. I’d rather it not work, but it works until FFG officially says it doesn’t.

Next round of same old qq about bombs.

Same player names qqing. Fascinating species.

As can be seen in the tournament scene, due to hard alpha lists Nym is nowhere near the top.

To me, unavoidable alpha at PS11 is far more of a funkiller then having to guess where your opponents bomb will be placed.

What those bomb maps dont show, the Nym player has to decide where to go before the turn starts too.

And it adds a pretty fun element to the game in general, having to interact with your opponent instead of autowin due to better alpha/dicemods.