Koutetsu Kabe

Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition

Card Type

Item

Force

+3

Chi

+0

Gold Cost

4

Keywords

Armor, Unique

Card Text

Will only attach to a Crab Clan Personality.
This Personality has a minimum Chi of 5.
Battle: Target an enemy unit with less Force than this unit: Bow it.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: During a battle if I control a bowed personality with 10F and my oponent controls a unbowed samurai with 3F can I target his samurai with actions that compare force like Barracks of the Damned, Koutetsu Kabe and other stuff like that even though my personality is bowed??
  What about he targeting my bowed 10F personality with actions that compare against units total force like Greater Sacrifice, Crane's Strenght and others? As far as I know a bowed unit doesn't add force to the army total but it's not considered 0 for other purposes, is it?
  I'm sorry for asking this simple question but I was in doubt about that recently.
  Thanks in advance!
  A: Unit Force and Card Force are different.
  Cards have Force - all the time. Their bowed or unbowed status does not change their Force. A bowed 10F Personality is still a 10F Personality.
  Units have the Total Force of all their unbowed Personalities and Followers. Bowing or straightening the individual Personalities and Followers in a unit can change the unit's Force Total. A unit consisting of a single 10F Personality has 10F when he is unbowed and 0F when he is bowed.
  For more information on how Unit Force is calculated, check out the Comprehensive Rules: Glossary entry for Unit. Martin Lund, "Bowed personalities/units and their force", 19 Oct 2007
• Q: A Terrible Oath + Koutetsu Kabe: If I had both of those attached to the same 3C Shugenja, and somehow removed all the tokens from him after straightening 5 times, he would have 8C until the end of the turn, correct?
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/Card_features#Gene ... bout_stats: "When a maximum or minimum is applied, any change in the stat due to this is not considered a penalty or bonus." (Emphasis added.)
  No. Zen Faulkes, "Clan Armor+A Terrible Oath", 21 Sep 2007