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.
My opponent attacks with a unit on province A. I defend my nonhuman units on province B. My opponent resolves the battle in province A and destroys the province. His unit goes home bowed. My opponent resolves the battle in province B. I play Surprise Attack and create another battle using my nonhuman units against my opponent's unit who already destroyed province A. Is this possible?
Thanks, G'rr
My opponent attacks with a unit on province A. I defend my nonhuman units on province B. My opponent resolves the battle in province A and destroys the province. His unit goes home bowed. My opponent resolves the battle in province B. I play Surprise Attack and create another battle using my nonhuman units against my opponent's unit who already destroyed province A. Is this possible?
Sort of.
"Target one or more of your Nonhuman Personalities at the current battlefield" -- check.
"Target one of the enemy leader's Personalities at this battlefield or his home" -- check.
"Create a battlefield" -- check.
"Move all targets there" -- wait. http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_M#Move: "A unit that was in the current attacking army at any point during a battle’s resolution can not move to another battlefield during the same Attack Phase.
"Actions that would move a unit to a battlefield can be legally taken if that unit was in an attacking army during the Resolution Segment of another battle during an attack, but that movement fails. This does not count as Negating the effect. "
Because effects are independent, everything happens but the movement of the attacking unit.
Is this ruling a reversal of this one?
PS: I believe this question of mine has been forgotten. Could you take a look at it? Thank you!
Is this ruling a reversal of this one?
Not Marty's, no, which is the same as the more recent one.
The ruling I made was correct under the rules at the time, which prohibited announcement of actions moving units into another battle instead of effects failing -- as the post describes. That rule was changed about 6 weeks ago. When a general rule changes, it not practical to search out every obsolete ruling.