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, 26 July 2007
Mountain's Shadow Dojo reads as follows: Battle: Even if this Stronghold is bowed, target one of your Crane Clan Samurai: Ranged 3 Attack. Move him home or to another battlefield.
Would I be able to target a Samurai at another battlefield with this action, provided there is a Personality at the current battlefield to target with the Ranged 3 produced by the Stronghold?
Rephrased: does the "another battlefield" in the second sentence refer to "a battlefield that isn't the one currently being resolved", or "a battlefield other than the one the Samurai is currently at"?
[EDIT: Much of the reason for this question was to find out whether I could, in fact, use this Stronghold as flexibly as is implied. Thank you for answering! ]
Martin Lund (rules official), 26 July 2007
The Rule of Location: If a Battle action is on a card in a unit (a Personality or attachment in play), the unit must be at the current battlefield; and any cards in units must be at the current battlefield to be legally targeted by a Battle action.
EXCEPTION: A Battle Action can target or be taken by a card in a unit at another location if its costs or effects say they can move the unit to the current battlefield. Choices within the action must then be taken, if possible, such that they do move the unit there.
- Marty Lund Deputy Rules Monkey