Ruling — Marvel United: X-Men

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

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Marvel United: X-Menbg-336382-en-1e

1. Shuffle the Villain's Threat cards and place 1 faceup on the slot at the bottom of each Location (covering the End of Turn effect), adding a Threat token to the slots next to them [1]. 2. Place the required number of Health tokens on Henchmen found on some Threat cards [1]. 3. Place all remaining tokens, separated into pools, within reach of all players [1]. 4. Shuffle the Villain's Master Plan deck and place it facedown next to a random Location [1]. 5. Place the Villain's game piece in that Location [1]. 6. Each player chooses a Hero and places their game piece on the Location opposite the Villain [1]. 7. Each player shuffles their corresponding Hero deck and places it facedown next to them [1]. 8. For Heroes with "Starting Hand" cards, ensure those cards are placed at the top of the deck [1]. 9. Each player draws 3 cards from the top of their deck into their hand [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook · p.5 · components · WINNING & LOSING · Villain Turn · MOVE VILLAIN

🔧 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 241 ms · ask 7773 ms · total 8025 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8025 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "components · WINNING & LOSING · Villain Turn · MOVE VILLAIN", "sharpsignalDocId": 516}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 516 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 516 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 06:02

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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	Villain Turn	p.12	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	Hero Turn · 1. DRAW A CARD · 2. PLAY A CARD · 3. RESOLVE ACTIONS	p.7	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	KO	p.10	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	components · WINNING & LOSING · Villain Turn · MOVE VILLAIN	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	Special rules:	p.14	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	Turn Sequence · UNDER PRESSURE · Rescue Civilians · Defeat Thugs	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	RULES SUMMARY · VILLAIN TURN · HERO TURN · HERO DAMAGE · WINNING & LOSING · Heroes lose if:	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	Clear Threats	p.9	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 Marvel United: X-Men — Rulebook (corpus doc 516)	components · WINNING & LOSING · Villain Turn · MOVE VILLAIN	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 241 ms · first delta 6336 ms · total 8025 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 241 ms · ask 7773 ms · gateway work 8025 ms · total 8025 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3369
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 219
tok/sec: 136.4 tok/sec — 219 output tokens in 1.605 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 49s 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 448), 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.