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 January 2011
New player here. Ive spent two days searching the forums before posting but am not impressed by the search engine. Apologies if this is elsewhere.
I have a question about delayed actions and removing a Personality from that battle.
Specifically, Utaku Tayoi (or really any similar effect) and, say, Mountains of the Phoenix.
Mountains says: "Battle: Before this battle’s resolution, the Attacker and the Defender each choose a unit in their own army; the active player decides who chooses first. Then, destroy the chosen units."
There are only 2 units at this battlefield: one attacking and one defending. Therefore all combatants currently present will be destroyed before this battle resolves.
Can removing your chosen Personality from this battle save him? For example, by using a power such as:
"Battle: If Tayoi is at a battlefield: Move her to another battlefield. Gain 1 Honor if Tayoi is attacking, or gain 2 Honor if she is now opposed."
This would allow her to "escape" the fight, but would it prevent her from being destroyed?
My guess is NO, it wont save her, since the Strategy MotP has already 'resolved" by being played, but Im curious because it WOULD remove her from the battle's resolution.
Thanks. Kealios San Jose, CA
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 2 January 2011
New player here. Ive spent two days searching the forums before posting but am not impressed by the search engine. Apologies if this is elsewhere.
I have a question about delayed actions and removing a Personality from that battle.
Specifically, Utaku Tayoi (or really any similar effect) and, say, Mountains of the Phoenix.
Mountains says: "Battle: Before this battle’s resolution, the Attacker and the Defender each choose a unit in their own army; the active player decides who chooses first. Then, destroy the chosen units."
There are only 2 units at this battlefield: one attacking and one defending. Therefore all combatants currently present will be destroyed before this battle resolves.
Can removing your chosen Personality from this battle save him? For example, by using a power such as:
"Battle: If Tayoi is at a battlefield: Move her to another battlefield. Gain 1 Honor if Tayoi is attacking, or gain 2 Honor if she is now opposed."
This would allow her to "escape" the fight, but would it prevent her from being destroyed?
My guess is NO, it wont save her, since the Strategy MotP has already 'resolved" by being played, but Im curious because it WOULD remove her from the battle's resolution.
Thanks. Kealios San Jose, CA
Just playing the terrain as a Battle action does not doom a Personality when he or she is the only one in the battlefield.
The only time a Personality is selected is "Before this battle’s resolution." If a Personality moves out of the battlefield before then, they are not in the army and cannot be selected.
And welcome aboard.