Can I prevent the rehonoring of a attacking, dishonered personality (the personality has destroyed my defending personality) during battle resolution with Dirty Politics?
Dirty Politics + Rehonor during battle resolution
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Political Reaction: Before another player gains Honor: Negate the gain, then lose Honor equal to the amount you negated.
Before the Attacker gains 1 or more points of Honor from resolution, if the attacking army contains one or more dishonorable Personalities, these Personalities are all restored to honorable status, and the Honor gain from resolution is negated.
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On: Dirty Politics
C. Apply any triggered rulebook effects that are not part of actions, such as rehonoring Personalities instead of Honor gain. The active player decides the order in which more than one of these effects apply.
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F. Reactions may now be taken following an action round procedure. Starting with the active player, each player in turn order has the option to take a Reaction to the trigger or pass. When all players pass consecutively, no more Reactions to that occurrence of the trigger may be taken.
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Both Dirty Politics and the Rulebook Effect of restoring Personalities to Honorable status during Battle Resolution have the same trigger - before that player would gain honor.
However, the Rulebook Effect is applied at Timing Step C, while Reactions have to wait until Timing Step F. The Rulebook Effect will always happen before Dirty Politics, so you can't use Dirty Politics to prevent the Rulebook from restoring victorious Personalities to Honor during Battle Resolution.
On: Dirty Politics