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, 5 August 2007
This is about the question in which the scenario was:
"I'm attacking a Crane player using Mountain Shadow Dojo. I have cavalry, so the opposing Crane player defends Province "A" with one unit. I assign my unit to attack province "B". I resolve province "A" first (which I do not have a unit in)."
As the defending player, can I just wait for the Unicorn player to resolve province "B" to use MSD to go to that province, shooting the cavalry personality there? I mean, after resolving province "A", due to being only attacking personalities unable to participate in more than one combat resolution?
Thank you.
[Mod edit: Thread title. Please spell things out for those searching or new players. Thanks. -ZF]
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 5 August 2007
"I'm attacking a Crane player using Mountain Shadow Dojo. I have cavalry, so the opposing Crane player defends Province "A" with one unit. I assign my unit to attack province "B". I resolve province "A" first (which I do not have a unit in)."
As the defending player, can I just wait for the Unicorn player to resolve province "B" to use (Mountain Shadow Dojo) to go to that province, shooting the cavalry personality there?
No.
Shoot, then scoot. Not vice versa.
You must have a legal target for the Ranged Attack in Province A to be able to take the action at all.