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A player, 30 November 2008
Hi,
Following up on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=71062&p=923248&hilit=recon#p923248
If I use Utaku Remi to target a province, and assign just her there vs. one defender, and the defender moves out, I now lose the force/PH bonuses granted by her recon? If he then moves back in, do I now get the bonuses back?
Conversely, if Justly Earned Victory was played in that battle to negate the force bonuses/penalties, and then my opponent leaves the battlefield(getting rid of my bonuses) and comes back, is the force bonus still negated? Or does it re-apply itself entirely?
Thanks in advance.
[Mod edit: Thread title. -ZF]
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 30 November 2008
If I use Utaku Remi to target a province, and assign just her there vs. one defender, and the defender moves out, I now lose the force/PH bonuses granted by her recon?
Correct, because the Personality is not opposed.
If he then moves back in, do I now get the bonuses back?
Yes. As previously noted in the post you linked to, Utaku Remi's effect is an ongoing effect.
http://rules.l5r.com/Effects#Duration_of_effects: "Ongoing effects that affect all things of a certain kind (such as, “Battle: Your Samurai have +1F”) by default change the game state, and so affect all things in play of that kind throughout their duration, even ones not in play at the time the effect took place."
Conversely, if Justly Earned Victory was played in that battle to negate the force bonuses/penalties, and then my opponent leaves the battlefield(getting rid of my bonuses) and comes back, is the force bonus still negated?
[Fixed.]
Yes.
http://rules.l5r.com/Effects#Ongoing_effects: "An ongoing effect that is applied 'while' some condition is true ends when that condition is no longer true, and takes effect again if the condition becomes true within the stated duration of the effect."
That said, it's the same effect, so even though it takes effect again, it's still negated.