Reinforce the Gates and use as an attacker

L5R CCG Rules board, 1 February 2008 to 2 February 2008

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 February 2008

can Reinforce the Gates be used as an attacker, a friend and I have been having trouble determining the usefulness of the Reinforce the Gates reaction After a player announces a Battle action before the Defender’s first normal opportunity to act or pass: Negate the action’s effects.

We need to know if this can be used to cancel out my 1st action as a defender or if its just useful for defending against naval actions.

on another note are there any other times when that reaction is useful aside from naval actions? ie are there any other ways to get the 1st battle action while attacking?

I checked and I did't see if any of the above was answer in other threads, sorry if it already was

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 2 February 2008

can Reinforce the Gates be used as an attacker(?)

The Reaction? Yes, although there won't be many times it will be triggered.