Talk:Bomblet Generator/@comment-30828643-20180124173805/@comment-454133-20180124195102

As the first reply states, these types of bombs are dropped when you reveal a maneuver. Executing a maneuver won't do it, you have to reveal a maneuver on your dial (and have a facedown dial set to reveal).

So your SLAM maneuver, Daredevil, etc don't work -- these are executing a maneuver but not revealing one. Also if you're ionized you don't get to reveal a maneuver dial (because you didn't set one -- you're going to do a 1 white straight instead), so you miss out on dropping bombs, using Advanced Sensors, etc.

"Reveal" vs "Execute" is an important distinction to learn, and it's something you can exploit (e.g. with ion) to inhibit a bomb dropper.