Talk:Ion Bombs/@comment-2003:E3:1BF4:3414:ECF0:6B98:B76A:A8F-20190101035028/@comment-454133-20190102175929

Large ships need more ionization than small ships. A large ship can receive 1 ion token and carry it for the rest of the game; it needs a 2nd token to actually become ionized, perform the 1 forward, and then purge its ion tokens.

So this gives 2 ion tokens to make sure everything in its radius is ionized, even large ships.