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, 19 February 2010
Arrows do not falter: Reaction: After a Ranged Attack targets a card: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength.
Outer Walls: Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give it -2 strength.
Laying in Wait: Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai: Ranged 6 Attack whose strength is compared against Gold Cost instead of Force.
Ok, laying in wait tagets my 6 GC personality, I react with outer walls to make it a ranged str of 4 rather than 6. Is it then possible for the player of laying in wait to react to my reaction with arrows do not falter, or do they have to react initially when they play laying in wait?
It sounds like at any time after a ranged attack is taken you can play either card which makes me
thanks
Dan Jacobson (rules official), 19 February 2010
Arrows do not falter: Reaction: After a Ranged Attack targets a card: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength.
Outer Walls: Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give it -2 strength.
Laying in Wait: Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai: Ranged 6 Attack whose strength is compared against Gold Cost instead of Force.
Ok, laying in wait tagets my 6 GC personality, I react with outer walls to make it a ranged str of 4 rather than 6. Is it then possible for the player of laying in wait to react to my reaction with arrows do not falter, or do they have to react initially when they play laying in wait?
It sounds like at any time after a ranged attack is taken you can play either card which makes me
thanks
Technically the Reaction of Arrows do not Falter does not "react to" the Reaction of Outer Walls.
It is a Reaction that is timed "After a Ranged Attack targets a card".
The sequence goes like this.
Player A is the active player. Player A announces Laying in Wait Player A targets his Samurai, and an opposing card with 6GC (and lets say 5F just so it is obvious which effect Player A will choose) --Player A chooses to pass on reactions to after targeting ---Player B announces and plays the Reaction on Outer Walls ---Player's A and B pass on reaction to the reaction on Outer Walls --Player A then chooses to react to the targeting, and announces and plays the Reaction on Arrows do not Falter
Etc., the targeted card is still destroyed assuming no other reactions, etc.
Please do not forget the timing of when a card is able to be used.
To answer your question though, The timing of Outer Walls' Reaction and the Reaction on Arrows do not Falter is the same.