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, 10 January 2009
Basically, I need to work out if the following play is legal:
I am attacking. At Province A I have Doji Chitose. At Province B I have Doji Bob. My oppponent defends a personality against Bob, but leaves nobody opposing Doji Chitose.
I choose to resolve Province A (with Chitose) first. My opponent passes. Am I able to play Two-Front War by bowing Doji Chitose to pay the cost, and moving Doji Bob from battlefield B to home. and therefore being able to react with Chitose to drag Bob into Province A?
I hope you understand what I'm attempting to do, it's clumsily worded
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 10 January 2009
Basically, I need to work out if the following play is legal:
I am attacking. At Province A I have Doji Chitose. At Province B I have Doji Bob. My oppponent defends a personality against Bob, but leaves nobody opposing Doji Chitose.
I choose to resolve Province A (with Chitose) first. My opponent passes. Am I able to play Two-Front War by bowing Doji Chitose to pay the cost, and moving Doji Bob from battlefield B to home. and therefore being able to react with Chitose to drag Bob into Province A?
I hope you understand what I'm attempting to do, it's clumsily worded
In your scenario, Doji Bob at battlefield B is not a legal target for a Two-Front War taken during the battle at battlefield A, unless you use Two-Front's own effects to move him directly there. Only doing that would satisfy the Exception to the Rule of Location (see here).