A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 10 April 2013
Since Palmer was nice enough to remind me he existed in another thread, I have a couple questions on the interaction between Asako Hosigeru and Koshin Keep.
1. At a battlefield where I have used Koshin Keep's Reaction, if I blow up Hosigeru to use his action, I get additional actions to continue shooting every target that did not die from the range 1, correct? I assume this would work like a pseudo Blacked Skies where I could just move from target to target and use whatever Ranged Attacks are necessary?
2. If I started an arrow chain with a different range attack I cannot use Hosigeru because Koshin Keep's reaction specifies that the range attack can ONLY target the original card? I figure that this is the case because Hosigeru simultaneously targets everything, even though he is technically still targeting the original target.
Asako Hosigeru: Battle: Bow and destroy Hosigeru: Simultaneous Ranged 1 Attacks targeting every enemy Follower and Personality, even those with attached Followers; the strength of these Ranged Attacks will not be increased.
Koshin Keep: Recon Reaction: After engaging: You have Reconnaissance at the current battlefield. Until this battle ends, your Ranged Attacks that do not destroy their target have the additional effects, "reduce the target's Force by the Ranged Attack's strength and you may take an additional Ranged Attack Battle action that may only target the same card".
Jon Palmer (rules official), 10 April 2013
Since Palmer was nice enough to remind me he existed in another thread, I have a couple questions on the interaction between Asako Hosigeru and Koshin Keep.
1. At a battlefield where I have used Koshin Keep's Reaction, if I blow up Hosigeru to use his action, I get additional actions to continue shooting every target that did not die from the range 1, correct? I assume this would work like a pseudo Blacked Skies where I could just move from target to target and use whatever Ranged Attacks are necessary?
2. If I started an arrow chain with a different range attack I cannot use Hosigeru because Koshin Keep's reaction specifies that the range attack can ONLY target the original card? I figure that this is the case because Hosigeru simultaneously targets everything, even though he is technically still targeting the original target.
Asako Hosigeru: Battle: Bow and destroy Hosigeru: Simultaneous Ranged 1 Attacks targeting every enemy Follower and Personality, even those with attached Followers; the strength of these Ranged Attacks will not be increased.
Koshin Keep: Recon Reaction: After engaging: You have Reconnaissance at the current battlefield. Until this battle ends, your Ranged Attacks that do not destroy their target have the additional effects, "reduce the target's Force by the Ranged Attack's strength and you may take an additional Ranged Attack Battle action that may only target the same card".
You are correct. You can get a similar effect with I Know That Trick as well.