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, 27 July 2007
I got all mixed up, so sorry for this... Regarding this post:
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Then... If we have Battlefield A and B, I am the defender and I'm defendig at Battlefield A with one personality, and my opponent is attacking with one personality Battlefield B...
We resolve the battle with my personality and we both pass...
We resolve the battle with his personality... Can I play Reinforce the Gates to move him to Battlefield A (wich has already resolved) or is that an ilegal play?
If it's legal... What happens after the phase ends? Will his personality move home bowed?
Thanks,
Javier
Martin Lund (rules official), 30 July 2007
I am the defender and I'm defendig at Battlefield A with one personality, and my opponent is attacking with one personality Battlefield B...
We resolve the battle with my personality and we both pass...
We resolve the battle with his personality... Can I play Reinforce the Gates to move him to Battlefield A (wich has already resolved) or is that an ilegal play?
I see nothing that makes this an illegal play.
Reinforce the Gates says:
Battle: Even if you control no units at the current battlefield: Target an unopposed unit there. Move the unit to a target battlefield where it would be opposed.
"Even if you control no units at the current battlefield," will get you around the Rule of Presence.
Targeting a unit at the current battlefield will satisfy the Rule of Location.
Moving the unit to Battlefield A where you have a Defending Unit to oppose him will satisfy the text of the card itself.
The play is perfectly legal.
If it's legal... What happens after the phase ends? Will his personality move home bowed?
The Comprehensive Rules say:
If no battlefields that haven’t resolved a battle remain, then all units still at battlefields return home, are bowed by resolution if they were attacking or allied, and all battlefields cease to exist.
That looks like a "yes," to me.
See here for further reference.