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, 1 August 2007
Political Battle: Bow one of your target Courtiers, even in your home: Target a number of your Personalities upto his Chi. Move them home, or move them to the current battlefield if any enemy units are there. Straighten the targets' units if this moved them into a defending army.
Currently resolving a battle at province A and I do not have presence at province A.
If I use Two-Front War to move in units to province A, does my courtier performing Two-Front War have to be one of the units that moves? If his movement is negated, does the rest of the movement fail?
Thanks.
Martin Lund (rules official), 1 August 2007
Political Battle: Bow one of your target Courtiers, even in your home: Target a number of your Personalities upto his Chi. Move them home, or move them to the current battlefield if any enemy units are there. Straighten the targets' units if this moved them into a defending army.
Currently resolving a battle at province A and I do not have presence at province A.
If I use Two-Front War to move in units to province A, does my courtier performing Two-Front War have to be one of the units that moves? If his movement is negated, does the rest of the movement fail?
Thanks.
The Courtier does not have to be one of the cards moved, nor at a Battlefield. The ability states that it will work with a Courtier "even in your home," which means it waives the Rule of Location as it pertains to the Courtier.
Even if the movement of one unit is specifically negated (say by something like "this unit may not move into battles this turn") any other units will continue to move. Only a blanket Negation Effect ("negate all that Actions effects") would stop all the movement effects at once. Otherwise the movement of each unit is independent of the successful movement of any other unit.