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, 9 January 2008
Retribution Reaction: After the end of an Attack Phase in which you were the Defender: Declare an additional Attack Phase against that phase’s Attacker, in which neither player can invite allies and you can only assign one unit. Give the Personality and each Follower in that unit +1F after it assigns.
I simply do not understand how you can use multiple retributions as stated at http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=60900&p=778036&hilit=retribution#p778058.
OK let say Player A attacks Player B....After player A's attack phase, Player B reacts with Retribution 1...After Player B's Retribution 1 attack phase resolves, Player B reacts with Retribution 2 and attacks Player A again? How is that possible? By the time of Retribution no. 2, Player B is already the attacker not the defender in the end of the Attack Phase of his/her Retribution no 1? How can he react wherein the wording of the Retribution is: After the end of an Attack Phase in which you were the Defender: Declare an additional Attack Phase against that phase’s Attacker . Wasn't the previous phase Player B's attack phase??? Shouldn't it stop at Retribution no. 1??? I hope someone can clear this.
Thank you.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 9 January 2008
Retribution Reaction: After the end of an Attack Phase in which you were the Defender: Declare an additional Attack Phase against that phase’s Attacker, in which neither player can invite allies and you can only assign one unit. Give the Personality and each Follower in that unit +1F after it assigns.
I simply do not understand how you can use multiple retributions as stated at http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=60900&p=778036&hilit=retribution#p778058.
OK let say Player A attacks Player B....After player A's attack phase, Player B reacts with Retribution 1...After Player B's Retribution 1 attack phase resolves, Player B reacts with Retribution 2 and attacks Player A again? How is that possible? By the time of Retribution no. 2, Player B is already the attacker not the defender in the end of the Attack Phase of his/her Retribution no 1? How can he react wherein the wording of the Retribution is: After the end of an Attack Phase in which you were the Defender: Declare an additional Attack Phase against that phase’s Attacker . Wasn't the previous phase Player B's attack phase??? Shouldn't it stop at Retribution no. 1??? I hope someone can clear this.
Thank you.
When a trigger occurs, you keep going around the table for Reactions to that trigger until everyone passes.
Player 1 attacks, providing a trigger for Retribution. After player 2 plays Retribution, the original trigger doesn't "go away" or become invalid. All players get a chance to resolve reactions to Player 1's attack until everyone passes.
It's non-intuitive because the Reaction takes a long time to resolve.
Counterattack worked the same way.