You asked
What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Libertalia: Winds of Galecrestbg-356033-en-1e
Before each game, the following must be placed on the table: 1. The board (the island) [1] 2. Loot tiles with random sides face up on either side of the board if playing Uncharted [1] 3. All loot tokens in the bag [1] 4. A set of 40 sequential character cards for each player [1] 5. A matching score dial set to 0 for each player, placed face up [1] 6. A graveyard tile for each player [1] 7. All 6 reputation tokens, randomly placed from left to right on the reputation track [1] 8. The Midshipman tile covering the second and third spaces on the island for 2-player games [1] Before each voyage: 1. Loot tokens are randomly drawn from the bag and placed on designated spaces on the board (the number of tokens per day equals the number of players, or 3 for two-player games) [2] 2. Players gain the same 6 character cards in their hands after one player shuffles and draws them [2] 3. Players gain doubloons (coin tokens) equal to the number shown below their reputation token on the reputation track [2]
🔧 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 235 ms · ask 6004 ms · total 201068 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 194819 ms · generation 6249 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Board and loot tiles/tokens: Place the board (the island) on the table, using one of these formats: Calm ( ): Use the calm side of the board for easy, friendly abilities. Stormy ( ): Use the stormy side of the board for more complex, devious abilities. Uncharted: On either side of the board, place l", "headingPath": "setup: Before each game", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Loot tokens: Randomly draw loot tokens from the bag to place on the designated spaces on the board (each space represents a day of the upcoming voyage, and each of the 3 voyages is a different number of days). Each day in the upcoming voyage will have a number of loot tokens equal to the number of p", "headingPath": "setup: Before each voyage · Adjacency", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Characters drawn and played: You will start with 6 characters in hand and only play 4 the first voyage, then you'll gain 6 more characters and play 5 in the second voyage, and finally you'll gain 6 more characters and play 6 in the third voyage. Reputation: A simple reputation system replaces the pr", "headingPath": "Publisher's Note (Jamey Stegmaier)", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Gain 3 . For each set of 2 map tokens, gain 7 . For each set of 3 map tokens, gain 12 . 6/10/21 8:38 AM Unless specifically noted on a character or loot tile, put all loot tokens back in the bag and all character cards in your ship into your graveyard. However, keep all remaining character cards in ", "headingPath": "AMULET MAP Discard loot tokens and characters in ships:", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "CALM STORMY DAYTIME DUSK NIGHT ANCHOR DOUBLOON Populate loot tokens (1 per player or 3 for two players) Gain the same 6 character cards Gain doubloons based on reputation Activate anchor abilities ( ) on characters and loot 2. Update score dials and discard doubloons Discard loot tokens and characte", "headingPath": "Publisher's Note (Jamey Stegmaier) · Before Each Voyage · End of Each Voyage · Want to watch a how-to-play video? · Have a question while playing? · Need a replacement part? · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "In 2-player games, place the Midshipman tile so it covers the second and third spaces on the island. Instead of loot tokens matching the player count, there are 3 loot tokens available each day. Players place their characters on the island respective to the Midshipman's rank (20.5). If your characte", "headingPath": "2-Player Mode", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Lib_CharacterCards_r7.indd 3Lib_CharacterCards_r7.indd 3 6/3/21 9:59 PM6/3/21 9:59 PM CABIN BOY55 If this is the leftmost character on the island, gain 33 . Don’t gain any loot tokens. Lib_CharacterCards_r7.indd 5Lib_CharacterCards_r7.indd 5 6/3/21 10:00 PM6/3/21 10:00 PM Lib_CharacterCards_r6.indd ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "If a character is directly to the left of the Midshipman, that character’s opponent removes a loot token from the current day. Lib_GraveyardTiles.indd 1Lib_GraveyardTiles.indd 1 5/11/21 8:10 PM5/11/21 8:10 PM 1 For each set of 2 map tokens, gain 77 .For each set of 3 map tokens, gain 1212 . MAP Loot", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "setup: Before each game", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "setup: Before each voyage · Adjacency", "sharpsignalDocId": 563}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 563 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 563 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 08:06
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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | setup: Before each game | p.2 | 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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | setup: Before each voyage · Adjacency | p.3 | 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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | Publisher's Note (Jamey Stegmaier) | 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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | AMULET MAP Discard loot tokens and characters in ships: | 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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | Publisher's Note (Jamey Stegmaier) · Before Each Voyage · End of Each Voyage · Want to watch a how-to-play video? · Have a question while playing? · Need a replacement part? · … | p.8 | 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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | 2-Player Mode | p.4 | 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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | p.1 | 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 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | p.1 | 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
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | setup: Before each game | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — Rulebook (corpus doc 563) | setup: Before each voyage · Adjacency | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 235 ms · first delta 4242 ms · total 201068 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 194819 ms · retrieval 235 ms · ask 6004 ms · gateway work 6249 ms · total 201068 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3061
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 262
- tok/sec
- 136.4 tok/sec — 262 output tokens in 1.921 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s 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 495), 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.