Ruling — Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: Pax Renaissance: 2nd Editionbg-308119-en-1e

To prepare everything before the first turn, follow these steps: 1. Each player places his Player Board in front of him [1]. 2. Players play East Tableau cards to the right of their Player Board and West Tableau cards to the left [1]. 3. Each player places the 9 remaining Pawns of his color into his Reserves near his Player Board [1]. 4. Place one Token of the shape and color indicated in the capital of each Empire; other Cities start empty, though Constantinople starts with three Tokens (two green Knights and a green Rook) [1]. 5. Separate the tableau cards into two piles, one East and the other West [1]. 6. For the East Draw Deck: Take 12 random facedown East cards, shuffle the two East Comet cards into them, and add 4 additional random East cards for each player in the game [1]. 7. For the West Draw Deck: Perform the same process as the East Draw Deck, then place it just above the East draw deck [1]. 8. (Optional) As part of Setup and Market Refresh, turn the top card of each Draw Deck faceup [1]. 9. For the Market: Deal 6 cards from the East draw deck to form a row of six faceup cards where indicated on the gameboard, then flip the leftmost one facedown; repeat this process for the West draw deck [1]. 10. Place the ten Empire Squares King side up in the slots next to their respective Empires [1]. 11. Place the four Victory Squares on the gameboard where indicated, with the inactive side faceup [1]. 12. Randomly determine a first player; if the Fugger Bank (blue) is in the game, this player is always the first player [2]. 13. The first player receives 3 Florins, the second player receives 4 Florins, the third player receives 5 Florins, and the fourth player receives 6 Florins [2]. 14. Place the remaining Florin disks onto the gameboard in the region called China [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.10 · C3. PLAYER TABLEAUX · C4. STARTING RULING CLASS · C5. PREPARING THE EAST & WEST DRAW DECKS · C6. THE MARKET, THRONES, & VICTORY SQUARES

[2] RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.10 · C7. STARTING FLORINS

🔧 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 236 ms · ask 15110 ms · total 37531 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 22176 ms · generation 15355 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 446 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 446 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 05:07

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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	C3. PLAYER TABLEAUX · C4. STARTING RULING CLASS · C5. PREPARING THE EAST & WEST DRAW DECKS · C6. THE MARKET, THRONES, & VICTORY SQUARES	p.10	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	D1. ACTION PHASE · (Max twice per turn) · (Max once per turn)	p.12	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	A3. OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME · A4. CHANGES FROM 1ST EDITION	p.3	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	A2 - FLOW OF PLAY OVERVIEW	p.2	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	A1 - INTRODUCTION	p.2	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS · Purchase Market Card Example · One-Shot Example	p.15	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS	p.14	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	D2. REFRESH MARKET PHASE	p.12	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	C3. PLAYER TABLEAUX · C4. STARTING RULING CLASS · C5. PREPARING THE EAST & WEST DRAW DECKS · C6. THE MARKET, THRONES, & VICTORY SQUARES	p.10	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	C7. STARTING FLORINS	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 236 ms · first delta 11940 ms · total 37531 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 22176 ms · retrieval 236 ms · ask 15110 ms · gateway work 15355 ms · total 37531 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3996
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 442
tok/sec: 131.1 tok/sec — 442 output tokens in 3.371 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 376), 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.