THE L5R ROBOT

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Imperial Herald Volume 2, Number 2 on page 13 (1997):

THE L5R ROBOT

Solitaire Rules for Legend of the Five Rings, By Ryan S. Dancey

There was some introductory text to attempt to sell you on the idea. It was a full page long, and I have no desire to re-type it here. I will start with:

What You Need
Because the Robot is designed to play in a crab stronghold, you will need to get a Crab starter deck. You will also need a stack of Basic Set (Imperial, Emerald, or Obsidian Edition) cards to build the Robot from. Most of the cards are commons, but a few are uncommon, and one rare (Inheritance). Since the Robot is designed to teach and entertain, do not worry about using a copy of Occupied Terrain as a "proxy" for the Inheritance if you need to.

Here is the deck:

Dynasty Cards
Hida Amoro x3
Hida Sukune x3
Ginawa x3 Medium
Heichi Chokei x3
Mirumoto Daini x3
Blacksmiths x3
Iron Mines x3
Small Farms x3
Jade Works x3
Glimpse of the Unicorn x1
Inheritance x1
Unexpected Allies x1

Fate Cards
Naginata x3
Light Infantry x3
Infantry x3
Oath of Fealty x3
Superior Tactics x3
Deadly Ground x3
Contentious Terrain x3
Frenzy x3
Charge x3
Rallying Cry x3
Ring of the Void x1


OK: You've built the Robot, now here is how you play it. You draw the five cards for the Robot's hand, and you will be playing them when it is legal to do so. During the Robot's turn play all fate cards that can be legally played during the Action Phase. The Robot will attach followers to the unit with the highest force to which they are legal targets.
Each turn the Robot must attack a single province. The Robot selects targets in this order of preference

1. The province holding the personality with the highest force
2. The province with the highest gold producing holding
3. If all provinces are face down roll a die four, the Robot attacks the corresponding province.

After the attack, if there is a legitimate threat of counterattack the Robot will use Rallying Cry if able. The Robot does not defend, it uses its Stronghold to grant +3 province strength, as long as this is sufficient to protect the province. If not the Robot loses a province.
During Dynasty Phase the Robot makes purchases in the following order:

1. Crab Clan Personality
2. Jade Works
3. Iron Mines
4. Other Personality
5. Other Holding

In the event of a duel the Robot accepts duels where it has higher or equal Chi to the challenger, all other challenges are declined if possible. If the Robot has the advantage in the duel by 3 Chi or more, it will strike immediately, otherwise it will focus the highest value from its hand once, then strike.

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