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A player, 20 June 2007
While you have exactly one province, Personalities and Followers attacking you have -1F.
and as a follow up question (depending on the answer to the first):
If I have a Ku'chek in play and his ability targets the remaining province I have, what is the armies total force at the resolution phase?
Ku'chek's stuff
Recon Open: Bow Ku'chek: Target a Province. Before each time a battle resolves at that Province, reduce the Force of each card at it to 3.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 20 June 2007
and as a follow up question (depending on the answer to the first):
If I have a Ku'chek in play and his ability targets the remaining province I have, what is the armies total force at the resolution phase?
Ku'chek's stuff
Yes.
Do not reapply penalties after a stat is set to a number (Lotus rules, pg. 46).