post for 16 January 2003
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.
Armor of the Mountain
Q: Does Armor of the Mountain only prevent a Personality's owner from moving that unit into or out of battles with Actions (such as Superior Tactics or At Your Command) or does it also prevent the opponent from doing so (such as with Tsudao or Block Supply Lines)?
"YOU may not move this Personality into or out of battles with actions." [emphasis mine] "You" means the card's controller. [FOU rulesheet]
Ranged Attack Question
Ikiryo card text:
Nonhuman Shadowlands Battle: Bow and destroy Ikiryo to have it make a ranged attack with strength equal to the Chi of Ikiryo's Personality. The ranged attack can target a Personality with Followers. Lose Honor equal to the Chi of Ikiryo's Personality. Dishonor Ikiryo's Personality.
Now, can this ranged attack be combined with another RA, like Spearmen or Goblin Slingers, and still target a personality with a follower?
No. GE rulebook, p. 63:
"Two or more cards in the same unit can combine ranged attacks as a single Battle action, adding their strengths together. They must all be able to make a ranged attack at that time and at the intended target, ..."
Duty to the Clan and to do What we must. Jeff Questions
There is a question about this card Duty to the Clan
Reaction: Play this card after a battle Resolution Segment in which one of your Personalities of your Faction was destroyed. Permanently lower the Gold cost of one of your Faction's Personalities that is face up in one of your Provinces to 0.
Does this card work for cards destroyed during the battle or for cards destroyed during battle resolution?
You play it "after a battle Resolution Segment in which one of your Personalities of your Faction was destroyed." [card text] The Personality has to have died in that Resolution Segment.
So could my opponent play Duty to the Clan after a battle, in which he To do what we musted one of his cards to destroy one of mine?
No.
So could my opponent play Duty to the Clan after a battle, in which I used a ranged attacked to destroy one of his personalies?
No.