You asked
How do I setup the game?
Answered counted as answered1. Place the game board in your play area and place the Mentat on its side in the Mentat space [1]. 2. Place the four Alliance tokens on the marked areas of the Faction's Influence tracks (Emperor, Spacing Guild, Bene Gesserit, and Fremen) [1]. 3. Create a Conflict Deck by separating cards into three groups: Conflict I, II, and III; shuffle them and deal them face down in a specific order (one Conflict I on top, five Conflict II below it, and four Conflict III at the bottom) [1]. 4. Place the Intrigue Deck face down [1]. 5. Shuffle the Imperium Deck, place it face down, and deal five cards face up to form an Imperium Row [1]. 6. Place the Reserve cards in three stacks: one for Arrakis Liaison, one for The Spice Must Flow, and one for Foldspace [1]. 7. Each player takes a Leader and places it in front of them [1]. 8. Each player takes a 10-card starting deck, shuffles it, and places it face down in their supply to the left of their Leader [2]. 9. Each player starts with 1 water; if using the "Dire Wolf" app, they also place one water in their supply [2][3]. 10. Create a bank containing Solari, spice, and remaining water tokens [2]. 11. Each player chooses a color and takes all of its components [2]. 12. Place two Agents on your Leader and your third Agent (Swordmaster) next to the board [2]. 13. Place one disc on the Score track (at 0 or 1 depending on player count) and place your Combat marker on the 0 space of the Combat track [2]. 14. Place four cubes on the bottom spaces of the Influence tracks, three in each player's garrison, and the remaining as troops in their supply [2]. 15. Determine a first player randomly who takes the First Player marker [2]. 16. If playing with Rivals (Solo or 2-player), select a difficulty level, choose two Leaders for the Rivals, assign them colors, and set up their specific troop counts and cards as dictated by the difficulty chart [3]. 17. If House Hagal is used, choose its color, place its cubes, and prepare its deck and agents [4].
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:12b think:false 4eb23ef187e2
- timings
- search 239 ms · ask 13425 ms · total 13674 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 13674 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
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- citations (raw)
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- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
- 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
- Oct 22, 2026 01:05
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | GAme components | p.5 | 0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — the top of a 2-arm fuse; whether more arms ran here was never recorded) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | Icon GuIde And AddItIonAl terms | p.16 | 0.030835 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | Swordmaster | p.18 | 0.029031 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 268 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | two-plAyer GAmes | p.19 | 0.027971 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | GAme components | p.4 | 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | setup | p.20 | 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | deck buIldInG | p.6 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | AGents | p.6 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 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 Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | GAme components | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | GAme components | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | setup | p.20 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Dune: Imperium — Rulebook (corpus doc 87) | two-plAyer GAmes | p.19 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 239 ms · first delta n/a · total 13674 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 239 ms · ask 13425 ms · gateway work 13674 ms · total 13674 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 43s ago)
- stream path
- not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
- 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
- NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
- pattern that matched
- SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
- matched words (in the normalized question)
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setup
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 18), 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.