Ruling — Zombicide: Black Plague

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Zombicide: Black Plaguebg-176189-en-1e

To take your turn: 1. The player with the first player token takes their Turn [1]. 2. Activate your Survivors one at a time, in any order of your choice [2][1]. 3. For each Survivor, spend up to three Actions (unless Skills allow for extra Actions) [2][1]. Each Action may be performed several times per Activation unless stated otherwise [2]. Possible Actions include: * Move: Move one Zone [2]. * Search: Draw a card in the Equipment deck (only in Building Zones; once per Activation and per Survivor) [2]. * Open a door: Requires a Melee weapon; spawns Zombies inside a building if it is the first door [2]. * Reorganize/Trade: Exchange equipment with another Survivor in the same Zone [2]. * Combat Action: Perform a Melee, Ranged, or Magic Action (requires the appropriate equipped weapon or spell) [2]. * Enchantment Action: Use an Enchantment held in Hand (requires an equipped Enchantment) [2][3]. * Take or activate an Objective in the Survivor's Zone [2][3]. * Make Noise: Place a Noise token in the Survivor's Zone [2][3]. * Do Nothing: All remaining Actions are lost and the Turn ends prematurely [2][3].

[1] RULEBOOK Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook · p.8 ·

[2] RULEBOOK Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook · p.56 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook · p.22 ·

🔧 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 221 ms · ask 16450 ms · total 16686 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 16686 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 371 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 371 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 06:08

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	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.56	0.047073 (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 Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.19	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 Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	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 Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.35	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 Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.56	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 Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.11	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 Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.54	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 Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.34	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	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.56	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: Black Plague — Rulebook (corpus doc 371)	p.22	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 221 ms · first delta 14591 ms · total 16686 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 221 ms · ask 16450 ms · gateway work 16686 ms · total 16686 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4645
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 298
tok/sec: 146.9 tok/sec — 298 output tokens in 2.029 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 14s 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 300), 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.