Ruling — Raiders of the North Sea

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Raiders of the North Seabg-170042-en-1e

1. Place the game board in the centre of the playing area [1]. 2. Shuffle all 71 Townsfolk Cards into 1 deck and place facedown within reach of all players to form the Townsfolk Draw Pile, allowing space for a Discard Pile [1]. 3. Shuffle all 16 Offering Tiles and stack them facedown to the side of the board [1]. 4. Turn over the top 3 Tiles, placing them faceup to the right of the Long House [1]. 5. Place all Valkyrie and Plunder (Gold, Iron and Livestock) into the Black Bag and mix them well [1]. 6. Randomly draw and place the required number for each raiding space (indicated by the Green icon at the top left of each raiding space) [1]. 7. Remove all remaining Valkyrie and Plunder from the bag and place them alongside the board to form the Main Supply [1]. 8. Place all White and Grey Workers on their required raiding spaces (indicated by the Worker icon at the top right of each raiding space) [1]. 9. Place 3 Black Workers in the Village on the Gate House, Town Hall, and Treasury [1]. 10. Place all Silver and Provisions to the side of the board in the Main Supply, along with the dice [1]. 11. Each player receives 2 Silver, 1 Black Worker, and 1 Ship Card in their chosen colour (with the 50 VP side facedown) [1]. 12. Place 1 Score Marker of each player's colour on the 3 '0' spaces around the board's edge to track Armour, Valkyrie, and Victory Points [1]. 13. Return any unrequired Black Workers, Player Cards, and Score Markers to the box along with the Black Bag [1]. 14. Deal 5 cards from the Townsfolk Draw Pile to each player [1]. 15. Each player must choose 3 of their 5 cards to keep in their hand, placing all other cards facedown at the bottom of the Townsfolk Draw Pile [1]. 16. Each player rolls both dice to determine a starting player; the highest roller starts the game [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook · p.3 · first time players · The Main Supply

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 252 ms · ask 6865 ms · total 1498006 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1490879 ms · generation 7127 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 307 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 307 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 6, 2026 14:34

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	first time players · The Main Supply	p.3	0.048916 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	aim of the game · game iconography · first time players	p.2	0.047123 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	The Offering Tile Stack · Player Supplies	p.3	0.045928 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	Raiding · Each Settlement has a different set of requirements.	p.4	0.045921 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	3. Plunder and Valkyrie · end-game scoring	p.6	0.045805 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	Player Supplies · 1. Place Worker and resolve its action · Working	p.4	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	townsfolk clarifications	p.7	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	Each Settlement has a different set of requirements. · 1. Military Strength · Military Strength = Rolled Dice + Crew Strength + Crew Actions + Armour · 2. Hired Crew	p.5	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Raiders of the North Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 307)	first time players · The Main Supply	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 252 ms · first delta 3592 ms · total 1498006 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1490879 ms · retrieval 252 ms · ask 6865 ms · gateway work 7127 ms · total 1498006 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3508
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 475
tok/sec: 136.8 tok/sec — 475 output tokens in 3.471 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 29s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 235), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.