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.
I have some questions about ambush. 1. Can they react with the Recruitment Officer holding to create a 2f2c ronin samurai? 2. Is it still considered my action phase for the purpose of playing rings that require actions in the same phase? 3. Does the mantis Kalani's Landing stronghold straighten when i play ambush?
Edited some acronyms to the complete card names, to aide future searching. -Ryushi
I have some questions about ambush. 1. Can they react with the Recruitment Officer holding to create a 2f2c ronin samurai? 2. Is it still considered my action phase for the purpose of playing rings that require actions in the same phase? 3. Does the mantis Kalani's Landing stronghold straighten when i play ambush?
Edited some acronyms to the complete card names, to aide future searching. -Ryushi
1) Yes. Creating a Personality (and bringing him in to play) is not considered movement.
2) Yes. Nothing about Ambush ends or suspends the current phase.
3) No. Ambush does not create an Attack Phase, only a battlefield.
Limited: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target another player's Personality: Create a battlefield (not at any province). Assign your Personality to attack there. Assign the target to defend there, even if he is bowed. Other Personalities will not move there. Fight a battle there (after this action's resolution). After the battle ends, lose 5 Honor.
It says OTHER PERSONALITIES will not move there, but what about the two that assigned? if i send one home could he move back in?
Limited: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target another player's Personality: Create a battlefield (not at any province). Assign your Personality to attack there. Assign the target to defend there, even if he is bowed. Other Personalities will not move there. Fight a battle there (after this action's resolution). After the battle ends, lose 5 Honor.
It says OTHER PERSONALITIES will not move there, but what about the two that assigned? if i send one home could he move back in?
Other Personalities is exactly that.
There is no restriction on movement when it comes to the the performer and the targeted Personality.
sense ambush doesnt take you out of the action phase, can you still use opens/limited during the battle?
i.e. unopposed equiping?
sense ambush doesnt take you out of the action phase, can you still use opens/limited during the battle?
i.e. unopposed equiping?
No.
The Action Phase gives each player in sequence the opportunity to take an action from an Open, or, for the active player, Limited ability. Ambush is played using one such ability, and after it resolves, a battle is fought at the battlefield it creates. During the Combat Segment of that battle, each player in sequence has the opportunity to take an action from a Battle ability. Only after the battle ends (and any traits, delayed effects or Reactions triggered by the end of the battle have resolved), does the next Action Phase opportunity to take an (Open or Limited) action occur.