Talk:Minefield Mapper/@comment-184.167.80.71-20170713101259/@comment-454133-20170714170459

Actually the debate is whether "any number of cards" lets you discard until all your munitions tokens and cards are gone, or only lets you discard each card once.

If it's munitions tokens and cards (e.g. you discard cards until you want to stop, or until you can't discard any more; or even just say "any number" is 4 so you can discard your two cards twice), then you can unload all your bombs onto the map before play begins.

If it's once per card only (e.g. you have 2 bomb cards, so you can only select "2" as "any number", and discard the munition token on both cards), then you can only land half your bombs before play, and have to place the other half by traditional means.

Because the language on the card is so imprecise, and because FFG's official rules interpretations are all over the place, both interpretations are fully valid. It's not something we can figure out by discussion here. The FFG Forums have already argued it out to a stalemate, and ultimately the problem here is FFG is not predictable in what they mean in these wishy-washy card rules, so they could rule either way in the FAQ. If they ever release a FAQ for Minefield Mapper. :/

We have no way of accurately predicting what the card is supposed to mean; we have to get an official answer from FFG, and they haven't liked giving answers lately.