Talk:Proton Bombs/@comment-213.104.249.30-20150828164116/@comment-27029853-20151006145241

Worth noting since the Force Awakens core set has been announced and released since this comment:

Before, critical hits were situational, and would not affect all builds of ships. Some ships would earn a critical hit instructing them to lose their pilot ability, but that ship didn't have a pilot ability, so the critical hit was nothing special. Some instructed ships with no secondary weapons to discard any secondary weapons they didn't have.

With the new Force Awakens core set, the critical damage cards are guaranteed to have an affect on the ship, making the proton bombs (and anything revolving around critical hits, but the proton bombs in particular) even more effective than before.