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, 22 September 2012
So, I use Writ of Command open action, and assign the target to one of my armies.
A few questions about this, mostly coming from the fact that even if they guy is in your army, Writ of command doesn't give you control of him. 1) if he is the only guy in my defending army, I don't have presence, but my oponent does have presence, even if he doesn't control an attacking personality there, right? 2) Can my opponent chose him as the performer of battle actions? 2b) Can this guy perform actions that target "an enemy card/personality" to kill my other defenders there? 3) If my oponent uses, say, ring of Water to get him home, and then moves back again, can he move to the Attacking army? what if he moves to another province instead of the one he assigned to?
I think that's it for now, more may come later
Thanks guys!
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 22 September 2012
So, I use Writ of Command open action, and assign the target to one of my armies.
A few questions about this, mostly coming from the fact that even if they guy is in your army, Writ of command doesn't give you control of him. 1) if he is the only guy in my defending army, I don't have presence, but my oponent does have presence, even if he doesn't control an attacking personality there, right? 2) Can my opponent chose him as the performer of battle actions? 2b) Can this guy perform actions that target "an enemy card/personality" to kill my other defenders there? 3) If my oponent uses, say, ring of Water to get him home, and then moves back again, can he move to the Attacking army? what if he moves to another province instead of the one he assigned to?
I think that's it for now, more may come later
Thanks guys!
Under discussion/consideration.
There are only about 3 cards in the game that cause cards controlled by an enemy leader to be in HIS enemy's army, and both card wordings and Rules have changed since these effects were contemporary, such that they would effect how they are played under the current rules set.