Forced March VS March Beyond Hope

L5R CCG Rules board, 2 April 2010

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, 2 April 2010

Hi,

I have some questions about Forced March. Since a personality should not move to an attacking army if she has already been in the attacking side during a battle resolution during the same attack phase : Does it work like March Beyond Hope ? - Does the personality has to be at home to be targeted by this strategy ? - Would this action resolve if the targeted personality has already been in the attacking side during battle resolution this attack phase ?

Card Text : --- Forced March Battle: Straighten (if necessary) and move into this battle one of your units that has already engaged in a battle this turn in another Province. Forced March bows this unit after the resolution phase of this battle. This unit may not straighten in your next straighten phase. --- March Beyond Hope Battle: Target your unbowed Commander: Move a target Personality in your home to the current battlefield, even if he was in an attacking army at a battlefield during its battle's resolution. If he moved, straighten his unit. After this battle ends, destroy him. ---

Thanks in advance, Rémi.

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 2 April 2010

- Does the personality has to be at home to be targeted by this strategy ?

No. The only requirement is that he have been in a battle at another Province.

On: Forced March, March Beyond Hope

- Would this action resolve if the targeted personality has already been in the attacking side during battle resolution this attack phase ?

The wording of Forced March is not specific enough (without receiving errata) to get around the current Rule against moving into an attacking army after having already been on an attacking side during a resolution. So, in such a case, the movement would fail.

On: Forced March, March Beyond Hope