Ambush + Ring of the Void

L5R CCG Rules board, 16 December 2009

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, 16 December 2009

Ambush Limited: Target your unbowed Personality: Create a battlefield (not at any province). Assign your Personality's unit to attack there. Assign another player’s target unit to defend there, even if its Personality is bowed. Other units will not move there. Fight a battle there (after this action's resolution). After the battle ends, lose 5 Honor. Ring of the Void After you successfully resolve your fourth or later non-Kiho action from Strategies in one phase: You may put his card into play from your hand. Open: Bow this card or discard it from your hand: If any player has more cards in his hand than you do, or if you bowed this card, draw a card.

My questions are if I use Ambush during action phase, would the strategies I play during ambush count towards the number of strategies play during action phase and the I be able to legally play of ring of the void?

Also, can I have my personality seppuku on the honor lost by ambush? If so, is it after the honor lost or after ambush is played?

Also, does reaction from strategy cards count towards the four strategy resolution require for the ring of the void?

Thank you Thrivebdx

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 16 December 2009

(I)f I use Ambush during action phase, would the strategies I play during ambush count towards the number of strategies play during action phase and the I be able to legally play of ring of the void?

Yes. http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Battles#Battles: "When a battle is created in a phase other than the Attack Phase... it is still that phase."

(C)an I have my personality seppuku on the honor lost by ambush? If so, is it after the honor lost or after ambush is played?

Yes, after the battle. See here: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=72381

(D)oes reaction from strategy cards count towards the four strategy resolution require for the ring of the void?

Reactions are actions (http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_A#Action). Yes.