Clarification on Rebuilding the Empire

L5R CCG Rules board, 8 April 2012 to 9 April 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, 8 April 2012

Rebuilding the Empire states:

Any player with three or fewer provinces may gain a province to the right of his rightmost province. Each player who gained a province from this has his Family Honor lowered to its starting value, and he may not declare an attack until your next turn begins. This Honor loss will not be negated or given to another player instead.

Ambush

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.

Retribution

Reaction: After the end of an Attack Phase in which you were the Defender: Declare an additional Attack Phase against that phase's Attacker, in which neither player may invite allies and you may only assign one Personality. Give the Personality and each Follower in his unit +1F after he assigns.

The Perfect Moment

Reaction: After the end of an Attack Phase in which you were the Defender: Create an additional Attack Phase with the previous phase's Attacker as the Defender. During this Attack Phase, you will not destroy more than one of the Defender's provinces, and your Personalities may not assign and will not move unless they are Paragons or Battle Maidens.

Question: By "he may not declare an attack", which of the following are not possible until that players next turn begins (please choose all that apply), A. Declare an attack (for the attack phase) B. Ambush C. Retribution D. The Perfect Moment

Thank you!

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 9 April 2012

Rebuilding the Empire states:

Ambush

Retribution

The Perfect Moment

Question: By "he may not declare an attack", which of the following are not possible until that players next turn begins (please choose all that apply), A. Declare an attack (for the attack phase) B. Ambush C. Retribution D. The Perfect Moment

Thank you!

Creating an Attack Phase and declaring an attack are essentially the same thing, as seen here. That is, if you Create an Attack Phase, declaring it comes part and parcel with it. And if you can't do the latter, you can't create the former.

Fighting a battle and creating battlefields, however, without an accompanying Attack Phase, are separate effects.

So, in answer to your question, only "B" is legal in your scenario. A, C, and D are not.