Ruling — Legacy of Yu

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: Legacy of Yubg-354934-en-1e

Before your first game, follow these steps for campaign setup: 1. Locate the Victory and Defeat Cards [1]. 2. Place the 2 Gold Cards facedown [1]. 3. Shuffle the 6 Blue Victory Cards and place them on top of the Gold Victory Card [1]. 4. Shuffle the 6 Black Defeat Cards and place them on top of the Gold Defeat Card [1]. For each game, follow these steps: 1. Place the Board in front of you [1]. 2. Shuffle all Townsfolk Cards [1]. 3. Place 10 of these facedown below the Board in the second space from the left to form your Ready Pile [1]. 4. Designate the space to the left of the Ready Pile as your Exhausted Pile [1]. 5. Place the remaining Townsfar Cards facedown to the left of the Board to form the Townsfolk Draw Pile, allowing space nearby for the Townsfolk Discard Pile [1]. 6. Reveal and place 1 Townsfolk Card faceup from the top of the Townsfolk Draw Pile into each space above the Board, except for the right-most space [1]. 7. Shuffle all Barbarian Cards and place them facedown to the right of the Board to form the Barbarian Draw Pile, allowing space nearby for the Barbarian Discard Pile [1]. 8. Reveal and place 1 Barbarian Card faceup from the top of the Barbarian Draw Pile into the right-most space above the Board [1]. 9. Separate all Canal Cards into 3 facedown piles by the Jade numbers shown on their backs [1]. 10. Shuffle the '1-2 Jade' Canal Cards together, then reveal and place 1 faceup onto each of the 2 left-most outlined spaces of the river [1]. 11. Shuffle the '3-4 Jade' Canal Cards together, then reveal and place 1 faceup onto each of the 2 middle outlined spaces of the river [1]. 12. Shuffle the '5-6 Jade' Canal Cards together, then reveal and place 1 faceup onto each of the 2 rightmost outlined spaces of the river [1]. 13. Return all other Canal Cards to the 'Huts & Canals' section of the box [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Legacy of Yu — Rulebook · p.4 · Campaign Setup · Game Setup

🔧 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 247 ms · ask 10343 ms · total 10604 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10604 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 412 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 412 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 05:09

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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	Campaign Setup · Game Setup	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	Round Structure · Worker Colours · Destroying Townsfolk Cards · Drawing from an empty Ready Pile · Townsfolk and Barbarian Draw Piles	p.6	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	Resetting the Campaign	p.16	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	2. Take Actions	p.8	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	Game Setup	p.5	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	1. Harvest	p.7	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	End of the Game · Between Games · Resetting the Campaign	p.15	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	Aim of the Game	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 Legacy of Yu — Rulebook (corpus doc 412)	Campaign Setup · Game Setup	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 247 ms · first delta 4267 ms · total 10604 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 247 ms · ask 10343 ms · gateway work 10604 ms · total 10604 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3740
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 492
tok/sec: 78.1 tok/sec — 492 output tokens in 6.302 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s 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 341), 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.