Ruling — Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One

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What does each player take, and what goes in the middle, before we begin?

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Asked with: Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Onebg-274637-en-1e

Each player chooses a hero and takes the corresponding 30 action cards, character card, hero miniature, sidekick tokens, health dials, and any other components for their hero [1]. Before the game begins, a player must also choose a battlefield and place it on the table [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook · p.4 · HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES

🔧 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 319 ms · ask 3825 ms · total 4156 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4156 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 4, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "These setup instructions and the following rules are for games with 2 players . For rules on team play with 3 or 4 players, see page 1 5 . NOTE 1 . Choose a battlefield and place it on the table. Each player chooses a hero and takes the corresponding 30 action cards, character card, hero miniature, ", "headingPath": "HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "When one of your fighters is reduced to zero health, for any reason, they are defeated . If your hero's sidekick is defeated, immediately remove that sidekick token from the battlefield. (A sidekick without a health dial only has 1 health and is defeated if they take any damage.) If your hero is def", "headingPath": "DEFEATING A FIGHTER · WINNING THE GAME · TEAM PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Most cards have effects, with labels indicating when they occur: immediately , during combat , or after combat . Unless otherwise specified, card effects are mandatory. If two effects would ever appear to resolve at the same time, the defender's effect resolves first. After cards have been revealed,", "headingPath": "STEP 3: RESOLVE COMBAT · WINNING THE COMBAT", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "On your turn, you must take 2 actions ; you cannot skip an action. You may choose two different actions or the same action twice. The possible actions are: MANEUVER SCHEME ATTACK You have a hand limit of 7 cards. At the end of your turn, if you have more than 7 cards in your hand, you must discard d", "headingPath": "YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "When you take the maneuver action, you may boost your movement. To do this, discard 1 card from your hand and add that card's BOOST value to your movement value. Ignore any effect on the discarded card. Certain effects (like King Arthur's special ability) allow you to boost other things, such as the", "headingPath": "STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "4 HERO MINIATURES 6 SIDEKICK TOKENS 30 action cards 1 Sinbad hero miniature 1 Sinbad character card 1 Porter sidekick token 2 health dials 30 action cards 1 King Arthur hero miniature 1 King Arthur character card 1 Merlin sidekick token 2 health dials 1 20 ACTION CARDS 7 HEALTH DIALS 1 DOUBLE-SIDED ", "headingPath": "CONTENTS · 4 CHARACTER CARDS · SINBAD · KING ARTHUR · MEDUSA · ALICE · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "There are no immediately or during combat effects. Jaws That Bite and Skirmish both have a value of 4, so the attack deals no damage. King Arthur wins the combat (for taking no damage). Ken plays Skirmish as his defense card, face down. COMBAT EXAMPLE WINNING THE COMBAT Anna attacks King Arthur with", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "Unmatched is a miniatures dueling game featuring fighters of all kinds from the page to the screen to the stuff of legends. Each hero has a unique deck of cards that fits their fighting style. You can mix and match fighters from any Unmatched set. But remember, in the end, there can only be one winn", "headingPath": "THE UNMATCHED SYSTEM", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES", "sharpsignalDocId": 366}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 366 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 366 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 18:21

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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	0.032787 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	DEFEATING A FIGHTER · WINNING THE GAME · TEAM PLAY	p.8	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
#3	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	STEP 3: RESOLVE COMBAT · WINNING THE COMBAT	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
#4	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	p.5	0.03125 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL	p.6	0.030769 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	CONTENTS · 4 CHARACTER CARDS · SINBAD · KING ARTHUR · MEDUSA · ALICE · …	p.3	0.030303 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)		p.7	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
#8	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	THE UNMATCHED SYSTEM	p.2	0.029412 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One — Rulebook (corpus doc 366)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 319 ms · first delta 3694 ms · total 4156 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 319 ms · ask 3825 ms · gateway work 4156 ms · total 4156 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3684
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 60
tok/sec: 147.1 tok/sec — 60 output tokens in 0.408 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s 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: BEGIN — "begin" / "beginning"
matched words (in the normalized question): begin

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 295), 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.