Talk:Hotshot Co-pilot/@comment-35193792-20180403143802

Although, it seems to be the common understanding now, that you even have to spend your focus token even if you do not have focus results, I think the descriptive text does not state and also the FAQ do not imply this. The card reads -...if able -. The game "enables" one to spend these tokens as result of die results (or some cards). I cannot spend it, if my dice only show blanks! That would be "discarding" not "spending".

So my opinion is if I am defending against Hotshot I would have to SPEND them if I have a rule based possiblity to do so! This is the case when your dice show some "eye" results. The rules do not forsee an option during the combat phase to just discard your tokens. Otherwise the "if able" statement makes no sense to me!

It would also have been very easy to write "When attacking with a primary weapon, the defender must spend 1 focus token OR DISCARD it, if it cannot be spent.