Ruling — Radlands

You asked

Walk me through the full setup procedure step by step.

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Radlandsbg-329082-en-1e

Each player sets up their own play area with the following steps: 1. Draw 6 cards from the camp deck [1]. (Note: For the best possible first experience, skip this step and give the most experienced player Arcade, Victory Totem, and Mercenary Camp, and give the other player Garage, Railgun, and Supply Depot) [1]. 2. Place 3 of your drawn camps facedown in your play area in a row [1]. 3. Leave space for 2 cards in front of each camp [1]. 4. Once both players have selected, flip your camps faceup [1]. 5. Return all unselected camps and the camp deck to the box [1]. 6. Take a Water Silo and Raiders card and place them faceup in your play area [1]. 7. Form a supply of 3 water discs in your play area [1]. 8. Take a player aid card [1]. 9. Draw the number of cards to your hand equal to the total sum of cards shown in the black rectangles on your camps [1]. 10. To determine start player, flip a water disc; if it lands water side up, you are the start player, otherwise your opponent is [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Radlands — Rulebook · p.5 · Each player sets up their own play area with the following steps:

[2] RULEBOOK Radlands — Rulebook · p.9 · RAID · TURN SEQUENCE · 1. EVENTS · 2. REPLENISH · 3. ACTIONS

🔧 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 289 ms · ask 6535 ms · total 6834 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6834 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Each player sets up their own play area with the following steps:", "sharpsignalDocId": 357}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "RAID · TURN SEQUENCE · 1. EVENTS · 2. REPLENISH · 3. ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 357}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 357 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 357 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 18:28

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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	Each player sets up their own play area with the following steps:	p.5	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	RAID · TURN SEQUENCE · 1. EVENTS · 2. REPLENISH · 3. ACTIONS	p.9	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	TAKE WATER SILO · USE ABILITY · When using an ability: · IS MY CARD 'READY'? · GAME END	p.11	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	EVENTS F.A.Q. · USING THE OFFICIAL PLAYMAT	p.15	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	PLAY CARD (PERSON) · When playing a person: · PLAY CARD (EVENT) · When playing an event: · DRAW CARD · JUNK CARD	p.10	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	GAME TURNS · COMPONENTS · GENERAL SETUP	p.4	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	USING THE OFFICIAL PLAYMAT	p.16	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	CAMPS F.A.Q.	p.13	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 Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	Each player sets up their own play area with the following steps:	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Radlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 357)	RAID · TURN SEQUENCE · 1. EVENTS · 2. REPLENISH · 3. ACTIONS	p.9	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 289 ms · first delta 4848 ms · total 6834 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 289 ms · ask 6535 ms · gateway work 6834 ms · total 6834 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3583
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 264
tok/sec: 136.2 tok/sec — 264 output tokens in 1.938 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 13s 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): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 286), 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.