Ambush vs. Asset Denial

L5R CCG Rules board, 29 February 2012 to 1 March 2012

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, 29 February 2012

If I use a Ninja personality without followers to Ambush another players personality, may I play Asset Denial to move to a province controlled by that player? I don't believe so, but I want to be sure. If I can, what happens next?

Alex Jones (rules official), 1 March 2012

If I use a Ninja personality without followers to Ambush another players personality, may I play Asset Denial to move to a province controlled by that player? I don't believe so, but I want to be sure. If I can, what happens next?

No.

Ambush only creates one battlefield, and it's not at a province: no provinces have battlefields unless an effect (usually, the Rulebook Effect during an Attack Phase's Declaration Segment) has created such battlefields.

Thus, the only "in play" locations during an Ambush's battle are home and the battlefield created by Ambush.