Rules for 17 November 2001
A rules digest from the L5R CCG rules team, copied from the mailing list archive for Oracle of the Void. The askers' names are left out. Rulings are as they stood on this date; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
who gets to play first in a 1 v/s 1 game if both players play "take the initiative"?
The secret is this: They can't play it at the same time. Trying to go first is a legal trigger for Take the Initiative -- even if going first was itself allowed by Take the Initiative.
if a tactician uses his tactician ability as a defender and he couterattacks, the force gained first is considered a force bonus in the battle as the attacker?
It's a bonus. I don't understand why "as an attacker" matters.