Talk:Ion Tokens/@comment-26997653-20150926234848/@comment-25999489-20150927062412

Ion tokens are negatives that are applied to enemy ships. Weapons that give out ion tokens tend to do minimal damage, but force your opponent to maneuver predictably during the next round of flying. When a ship is ioned it moves strait at a speed of one, and it counts as a white maneuver. They only way for your opponent to adjust his ships final position is by barrel rolling or boosting (assuming that the ship has the action/can perform it), so you can avoid fire arcs and set up kill shots with ease. That's the advantage. The disadvantage is that ion cards rarely deal more than one damage at a time.