Thunders' Challenge This excerpt from Thunders' Challenge is (c) 2001 by Alderac Entertainment Group and is used with permission. Legend of the Five Rings, Clan War, The Emerald Empire of Rokugan and all other related marks are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Gekkai Air 3 Earth 4 Fire 4 Water 4 Void 5 ATN 6 Wounds 4 ATT +1 DAM +1 #S 2 TL 5 ML 5 Glory 5 Honor 1 Cost 160 Equipment: None Traits: Fearless, Infantry, Unique Skills: Battle 3, Leadership 3, Defense 3, Stalwart Defender Brotherhood Monk Kiso: Gekkai will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at his standard cost. He will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). He must always lead a Brotherhood affiliated unit. Kiso: Gekkai always adds +2 to all Damage dice during a duel, even if modifiers are not normally allowed. Kiso: When Gekkai enters a duel, his player may immediately draw a Tactical card and add it to his hand. Hitoshi Air 3 Earth 5 Fire 3 Water 3 Void 4 ATN 6 Wounds 5 ATT +1 DAM +1 #S 2 TL 6 ML 5 Glory 4 Honor 2 Cost 117 Equipment: Bo Traits: Fearless, Infantry Skills: Battle 2, Leadership 3, Defense 5, Stalwart Defender Brotherhood Monk, Acolyte of Earth Kiso: Hitoshi will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at his standard cost. He will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). He must always lead a Brotherhood affiliated unit. Kiso (SA): Hitoshi becomes spent to give his unit +2 ATN (max ATN 8) and +2 to all Morale tests until the end of the turn. Hitoshi may not be targeted by enemy effects when spent as a result of using this Special Action. Koichi Air 4 Earth 3 Fire 3 Water 3 Void 5 ATN 6 Wounds 3 ATT +1 DAM +1 #S 2 TL 6 ML 5 Glory 4 Honor 2 Cost 116 Equipment: None Traits: Fearless, Infantry Skills: Battle 2, Leadership 3, Defense 2, Iaijutsu 2, Tactician 1 Brotherhood Monk, Acolyte of the Void Kiso: Koichi will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at his standard cost. He will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). He must always lead a Brotherhood affiliated unit. Kiso (SA): Koichi's player may discard a Tactical ard from his hand and immediately replace it from his Tactical deck. Ability: Once per turn, when expending Void, the required Void expense for the effect is reduced by one. If the Void requirement is one, Koichi invokes the effect without expending Void and the effect is not considered his use of Void for the turn Seikua Air 4 Earth 4 Fire 3 Water 3 Void 4 ATN 6 Wounds 4 ATT +1 DAM +1 #S 2 TL 6 ML 5 Glory 4 Honor 2 Cost 120 Equipment: Bo Traits: Fearless, Infantry, Unique Skills: Battle 2, Leadership 3, Defense 2, Iaijutsu 2 Brotherhood Monk Kiso: Seikua will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at his standard cost. He will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). He must always lead a Brotherhood affiliated unit. Kiso: At the beginning of a battle, Seikua's Battle, Leadership, Defense and iaijutsu skills all gain +1 to their ratings for each Brotherhood personality in his army (not including himself). Each time that a Brotherhood personality in his army is removed as a casualty or moves off the table, Seikua suffers -1 to each of the listes skills. Kiso: Seikua may not serve in a command group. Suana Air 3 Earth 4 Fire 3 Water 5 Void 3 ATN 6 Wounds 4 ATT +1 DAM +2 #S 3 TL 5 ML 5 Glory 4 Honor 2 Cost 118 Equipment: Bo Traits: Fearless, Infantry Skills: Battle 4, Leadership 3, Defense 2, Charge Brotherhood Monk, Acolyte of Water Kiso: Suana will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at his standard cost. He will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). He must always lead a Brotherhood affiliated unit. Kiso: Suana and his unit ignore all harmful/restrictive effects of a region when using Region rules for a battle. Kiso: Suana does not benefit from effects which provide beneficial combat modifiers to his unit, but ignores all negative modifiers to his ATT and DAM as well, including those imposed by unit conditions and being unformed. Takao Air 3 Earth 4 Fire 5 Water 3 Void 3 ATN 6 Wounds 4 ATT +2 DAM +1 #S 2 TL 6 ML 5 Glory 4 Honor 2 Cost 123 Equipment: Bo Traits: Fearless, Infantry Skills: Battle 3, Leadership 3, Iaijutsu 3, Double Chi Brotherhood Monk, Acolyte of Fire Kiso: Takao will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at his standard cost. He will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). He must always lead a Brotherhood affiliated unit. Kiso: If Takao loses a duel that was initiated by an enemy player or model, he takes no Wounds but all other effects occur normally. If he wins the duel, it is resolved normally. Kiso: If Takao enters a duel and his opponent has a higher Void, Takao's player may discard up to three Tactical cards from his had to give Takao one additional Damage die for each discard. These Damage dice apply only to that duel. Tetsuya Air 3 Earth 5 Fire 5 Water 5 Void 4 ATN 6 Wounds 5 ATT +2 DAM +2 #S 2 TL 4 ML 3 Glory 6 Honor 3 Cost 208 Equipment: None Traits: Fearless, Infantry, Unique Skills: Battle 4, Leadership 3, Defense 3, Iaijutsu 2, Double Chi Brotherhood Monk Kiso: Tetsuya will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at his standard cost. He will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). He must always lead a Brotherhood affiliated unit. Kiso: While engaged with a model that has the Oni triat, Tetsuya's unit gains +1 ATT and +2 DAM. Kiso: While engaged with a model that has the Oni trait, Tetsuya gains +3 ATT and +3 DAM. Kiso: When dueling a model that has the Oni trait, Tetsuya gains three additional Damage dice. Acolytes of Wind ATN 6 Wounds 1 ATT +1 DAM +0 #S 1 TL 7 ML 6 Glory -- Honor 1 Cost 12 Equipment: Three-sectioned staff Traits: Infantry, Resistance 2 Skills: None Brotherhood Unit Kiso: Acolytes of Wind will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at their standard cost and may be led by a Dragon or Phoenix personality while serving in an army affiliated with the personality.. They will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). Kiso: All Ranged Attacks which target the Acolytes of Wind suffer -2 ATT and -1 DAM. Maximum of two units, no more than 20 models per unit. Disciples of the Inner Circle ATN 7 Wounds 2 ATT +1 DAM +1 #S 1 TL 6 ML 5 Glory -- Honor 1 Cost 23 Equipment: None Traits: Infantry Skills: None Brotherhood Unit Kiso: Disciples of the Inner Circle will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at their standard cost and may be led by a Dragon or Phoenix personality while serving in an army affiliated with the personality.. They will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). Kiso: Once per turn, when this unit is entering an engagement as the defender, its commander may expend one Void. This unit's player may then search through his Tactical deck, remove a card with the Defensive Reaction trait and immediately play that card if it targets this unit or the engaging enemy. The card may not be added to the player's hand. Kiso: Once per turn, when this unit is being targeted with an effect that provides beneficial combat modifiers, its commander may expend one Void to increase beneficial combat modifiers by +1. Example: If targeting the unit with Charge, the unit would gain +2 ATT and +2 DAM instead of +1 ATT and +1 DAM. Maximum of one unit, no more than 16 models. Disciples of the Outer Circle ATN 6 Wounds 1 ATT +0 DAM +1 #S 1 TL 6 ML 6 Glory -- Honor 1 Cost 11 Equipment: None Traits: Infantry Skills: None Brotherhood Unit Kiso: Disciples of the Outer Circle will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at their standard cost and may be led by a Dragon or Phoenix personality while serving in an army affiliated with the personality.. They will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). Kiso: Once per turn, when this unit is being targeted with an effect that provides beneficial combat modifiers, its commander may expend one Void to increase beneficial combat modifiers by +1. Example: If targeting the unit with Charge, the unit would gain +2 ATT and +2 DAM instead of +1 ATT and +1 DAM. Maximum of one unit, no more than 24 models. Students of Shinsei ATN 6 Wounds 1 ATT +1 DAM +1 #S 1 TL 6 ML 6 Glory -- Honor 1 Cost 11 Equipment: None Traits: Infantry Skills: None Brotherhood Unit Kiso: Students of Shinsei will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at their standard cost and may be led by a Dragon or Phoenix personality while serving in an army affiliated with the personality.. They will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). Ability: Effects which produce beneficial combat modifiers for models in this uni may not be cancelled, copied, negated or reduced in any way (such as Ikoma Tsanuri, Mizu-Do Adepts, Superior Tactics, Water Elementals, etc.). Maximum of two units, no more than 20 models per unit. Wave Masters ATN 7/6 Wounds 1 ATT +0 DAM +2 #S 1 TL 6 ML 6 Glory -- Honor 1 Cost 19 Equipment: Nunchaku Traits: Cavalry, Infantry, 5" Movement Skills: Daisho Brotherhood Unit Kiso: Wave Masters will join a Dragon or Phoenix army at their standard cost and may be led by a Dragon or Phoenix personality while serving in an army affiliated with the personality.. They will join other armies as if recruited from the Dragon or Phoenix clan (recruiting army's choice). Kiso: All models in this unit gain the Cavalry and 5" Movement traits. Kiso: Any personality serving as unit commander to this unit gains the skill Tactician 1. If the personality already has the Tactician skill, he gains +1 to his rating. Kiso (SA): Once per battle, this unit gains +1 ATN (max ATN 8/8) until the end of the turn. Maximum of one unit, no more than 20 models. The Great Bear Air 5 Earth 3 Fire 3 Water 3 Void 4 ATN 7 Wounds 3 ATT +1 DAM +2 #S 1 TL 4 ML 3 Glory 4 Honor 2 Cost 90 Equipment: Tetsubo Traits: Experienced, Fearless, Historical, Infantry, Loyal, Unique. Large base, 2" Movement Skills: Battle 5, Leadership 4, Defense 5 Crab Samurai Kiso: The Great Bear is considered to be the experienced version of Hida Kisada. Kiso: May only serve in a Command Group as army general. While in a Command Group, The Great Bear has effective Glory 9. Ability: When projecting a skill from the Command Group, the target gains that skill with an additional +2 to the rating. Example: If The Great Bear projects Defense 5 to a personality in his army, that personality gains Defense 7. Ability: When modifiying MIS as the General, The Great Bear is considered to have Battle 7. The False Hoturi Air 5 Earth 6 Fire 5 Water 6 Void 4 ATN 8 Wounds 6 ATT +2 DAM +2 #S 1 TL 6 ML 5 Glory 8 Honor 0 Cost 400 Equipment: Katana, Light Armor Traits: Fearless, Historical, Infantry, Tainted, Unique Skills: Battle 5, Leadership 4, Defense 4, Iaijutsu 3, Charge Shadowlands Samurai Kiso: The False Hoturi and Doji Hoturi may never serve in the same army. Kiso: The False Hoturi will not join a Crane army, but will join a Scorpion army, automatically gaining Scorpion affiliation, at his standard cost. Kiso: The Fasle Hoturi may lead any Scorpion or Shadowlands unit, regardless of Honor and Glory requirements. Kiso: While The False Hoturi is alive and unspent, enemy Crane armies may not gain Honor during a battle.