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 December 2011
Hello,
When I engage in a battle and react with Recruitment Officer to make a Personality can I react with Lying in Ambush to make another personality?
Recruitment Officer Text Retainer Bow this card: Produce 3 Gold. Reaction: After engaging at a battlefield where you control one or more units, bow this card: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Ronin • Samurai Personality there. Remove him from the game when this turns ends.
Lying in Ambush Text Reaction: After the resolution of your Battle, Limited, or Open action that created a non-Shadowlands Personality: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality with your Clan alignment at the same location.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 12 December 2011
Hello,
When I engage in a battle and react with Recruitment Officer to make a Personality can I react with Lying in Ambush to make another personality?
Recruitment Officer Text Retainer Bow this card: Produce 3 Gold. Reaction: After engaging at a battlefield where you control one or more units, bow this card: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Ronin • Samurai Personality there. Remove him from the game when this turns ends.
Lying in Ambush Text Reaction: After the resolution of your Battle, Limited, or Open action that created a non-Shadowlands Personality: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality with your Clan alignment at the same location.
No.
Lying in Ambush is only triggered by the creation of a Personality from a Battle, Limited, or Open ability, not a Reaction, as Recruitment Officier's ability is.