Ruling — Shogun

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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To prepare everything before the first turn, follow these steps: 1. Construct the battle tower using its three parts: a funnel, a cardboard tower, and a tray [1]. 2. Place victory point markers on the '0' space of the scoring track and rice markers next to the bottom of the provision track [2]. 3. Load the tower with an initial set of armies by dropping seven armies from each player and 10 farmer armies into it together; any armies that fall back out into the tray are returned to their respective supplies, and remaining farmer armies form a general supply [2]. 4. Distribute starting chests to players, then use the remaining chests to form a general supply [2]. 5. Shuffle event cards and place them in a face down draw pile, then turn the top 4 event cards face up next to the game board [2]. 6. Place action cards and special cards within easy reach [2]. 7. Lay out the 10 action cards by shuffling them and placing them in a face down pile; reveal the top 5 one at a time and lay them in order beneath fields 1 through 5 on the game board, then lay the remaining 5 cards face down beneath fields 6 through 10 [3]. 8. Shuffle special cards and place them face up in the order they are drawn on the 5 marked spaces on the game board [3].

[1] RULEBOOK Shogun — Rulebook · p.3 · Contents · The Goal

[2] RULEBOOK Shogun — Rulebook · p.5 · Claiming Starting Provinces · Victory Point Markers and Rice Markers · The Battle Tower · War Chests · Event Cards

[3] RULEBOOK Shogun — Rulebook · p.6 · Playing the Game · Spring, Summer, and Fall · Lay Out Action Cards · Lay Out Special Cards · +1 War Chest

🔧 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 206 ms · ask 6555 ms · total 37062 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 30290 ms · generation 6772 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 9, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The face up event cards are shuffled (there will be 2, 3, or 4, depending on which round is in progress). One is then drawn and placed face up on the event space on the game board. The card depicts the event that applies in this round to alter certain actions for all players. The remaining event car", "headingPath": "Determine Events · Determine Turn Order", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "1. Spring Lay out action cards Lay out special cards Plan actions / Bid for turn order Determine events Determine turn order Carry out actions 2. Summer- same as spring 3. Fall - same as spring 4. Winter - Rice losses / potential revolts - Award victory points - Remove revolt markers - Draw 4 new ev", "headingPath": "Round Overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "If a face up card was taken, it is replaced with another from the draw pile. This process continues until each player has transferred all of his army groups onto the game board. The remaining province cards (which do not belong to any player) are placed within reach near the game board. These provin", "headingPath": "Claiming Starting Provinces · Victory Point Markers and Rice Markers · The Battle Tower · War Chests · Event Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "The game transpires over 2 years, which are divided into a total of 8 rounds: after 3 rounds representing spring, summer, and fall, a fourth scoring round (winter) takes place. This sequence of 4 rounds is then repeated. Each of these 3 rounds occurs in the following steps: Lay Out Action Cards Lay ", "headingPath": "Playing the Game · Spring, Summer, and Fall · Lay Out Action Cards · Lay Out Special Cards · +1 War Chest", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "1. Sort Province Cards (board side / 3 player) 2. Distribute Player Materials - Each takes: · Individual board, Daimyo card, and 62 armies · Chests: 18 with 3 players 15 with 4 players 12 with 5 players · 1 set of war chest cards (0-4 chests) 3a. Claim Starting Provinces · Assign army groups to 9 Pr", "headingPath": "Preparation", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Actions are executed in the order in which the action cards are lined up below the game board. Each action is executed by all players in turn order before the next action is carried out. All players who can carry out an action must do so. If a player ends up being unable to take a particular action ", "headingPath": "Carry Out Actions", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "If, however, the round that was just completed was the fall round, then the winter round takes place. In this round, players must supply their provinces with rice or face the threat of revolt. Additionally, scoring occurs. Now, each player's stores of rice sustain losses . The remaining fourth event", "headingPath": "Carry Out Actions · Winter Round · · Supplying Provinces with Rice · · Revolts", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "The province cards are shuffled and placed in a face down stack near the board. Then the top 2 cards are turned face up . The front side of the individual boards shows 9 countryside areas next to the Daimyo, each marked with a number. Each player places the displayed number of armies on each area of", "headingPath": "Claiming Starting Provinces", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Contents · The Goal", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Claiming Starting Provinces · Victory Point Markers and Rice Markers · The Battle Tower · War Chests · Event Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Playing the Game · Spring, Summer, and Fall · Lay Out Action Cards · Lay Out Special Cards · +1 War Chest", "sharpsignalDocId": 393}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 393 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 393 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 7, 2026 05:00

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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Determine Events · Determine Turn Order	p.9	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Round Overview	p.13	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Claiming Starting Provinces · Victory Point Markers and Rice Markers · The Battle Tower · War Chests · Event Cards	p.5	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Playing the Game · Spring, Summer, and Fall · Lay Out Action Cards · Lay Out Special Cards · +1 War Chest	p.6	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Preparation	p.13	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Carry Out Actions	p.9	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Carry Out Actions · Winter Round · · Supplying Provinces with Rice · · Revolts	p.10	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Claiming Starting Provinces	p.4	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 Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Contents · The Goal	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Claiming Starting Provinces · Victory Point Markers and Rice Markers · The Battle Tower · War Chests · Event Cards	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Shogun — Rulebook (corpus doc 393)	Playing the Game · Spring, Summer, and Fall · Lay Out Action Cards · Lay Out Special Cards · +1 War Chest	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 206 ms · first delta 4715 ms · total 37062 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 30290 ms · retrieval 206 ms · ask 6555 ms · gateway work 6772 ms · total 37062 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3795
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 296
tok/sec: 147.9 tok/sec — 296 output tokens in 2.002 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 18s 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: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 322), 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.