Ruling — Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two

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Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?

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Asked with: Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Twobg-335764-en-1e

To set up the game before anyone takes a turn: 1. Choose a battlefield and place it on the table [1]. 2. Each player chooses a hero and takes their corresponding character card, hero miniature, action cards, sidekick tokens (if any), and health dials [1]. 3. Each player sets their hero's starting health on their matching health dials using the value found on the character cards [1]. 4. Each player shuffles their action cards to form a single deck and places it face down [1]. 5. Each player draws 5 cards as their starting hand [1]. 6. The younger player places their hero in the 1 space on the battlefield [1]. 7. If the younger player has sidekicks, they place them in separate spaces within the same zone as their hero (if the hero's space is part of multiple zones, sidekicks may be in any of those zones) [1]. 8. The older player places their hero in the 2 space on the battlefield and places their sidekicks using the same rules [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — 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 304 ms · ask 7223 ms · total 7536 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7536 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES", "sharpsignalDocId": 496}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 496 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 496 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 05:57

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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	VERSATILE CARDS · 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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.7	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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL · …	p.6	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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.3	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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.5	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 Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 304 ms · first delta 5772 ms · total 7536 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 304 ms · ask 7223 ms · gateway work 7536 ms · total 7536 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3897
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 230
tok/sec: 135.9 tok/sec — 230 output tokens in 1.692 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 44s 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 427), 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.