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, 12 June 2010
Hello everyone, just a question for right now with resolution of a battle.
The rule on the online forum states: An army’s Force is the total of the Force of all unbowed Personalities and Followers in it; a side with no units has zero Force.
I am just wondering on this. Does this mean that if the personality is bowed, then even if the followers are not, they do not count towards the total?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 12 June 2010
Hello everyone, just a question for right now with resolution of a battle.
The rule on the online forum states: An army’s Force is the total of the Force of all unbowed Personalities and Followers in it; a side with no units has zero Force.
I am just wondering on this. Does this mean that if the personality is bowed, then even if the followers are not, they do not count towards the total?
No.
Unbowed Followers DO count toward the total, regardless of whether their Personality is unbowed or not.