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The game is played through several phases and steps. Based on the provided sources, the sequence of actions is as follows:

Planning Phase

1. At the start of the Planning Phase, each vassal's vassal marker is placed near the Iron Throne track.[1]

2. The highest players on the Iron Throne track receive a set of four vassal order tokens.[1]

3. In turn order, players with vassal order tokens select a vassal to command by placing the vassal's marker in front of their screen.[1] A player may pass, handing their tokens to the next player in turn order; the last player on the track must command all remaining vassals.[1]

4. After players assign order tokens for their house, players commanding vassals assign up to two tokens from their set of four to areas containing their vassal's units.[1]

5. Players assign orders to the game board.[2] In rare circumstances where a player has fewer eligible Order tokens than needed, players take the Assign Orders step in turn order rather than simultaneously.[2]

6. All assigned orders are revealed by flipping them faceup.[2]

7. The player holding the Messenger Raven token may choose to perform one of the following: replace an Order token by swapping an on-board token for an unused one, or look at the top card of the Wildling deck and choose to place it on top or the bottom of the deck.[2] If used, the token is flipped to its faded side.[2]

Action Phase

The Action Phase resolves all orders assigned during the Planning Phase through the following steps:

1. Resolve Raid Orders: In turn order, each player resolves one Raid Order.[3] A player chooses one adjacent enemy Support, Raid, or Consolidate Power Order to remove.[3] If a Raid Order is used to remove an opponent's Consolidate Power Order, the player "pillages" the opponent, gaining one Power token and the opponent discarding one Power token to the Power Pool.[3]

2. Resolve March Orders: In turn order, each player resolves one March Order.[4] A player may move some or all units from the assigned area to adjacent areas.[4] If a player moves units into an area containing units of another House, combat begins.[4] If a player vacates an area, they lose control unless they establish control by placing a Power token on the vacated area.[4] This step continues until no March Orders remain on the board.[4]

3. Resolve Consolidate Power Orders: In turn order, each player resolves one Consolidate Power Order.[5] The player removes the token and gains one Power token from the Power Pool, plus one additional Power token for each Power icon printed on the area.[5] This continues until no Consolidate Power Orders remain.[5]

4. Clean Up: All remaining Support and Defense Orders are removed from the board, and all routed units are stood upright.[5] The Messenger Raven and Valyrian Steel Blade tokens are flipped to their available (non-faded) side.[5]

The Action Phase ends, and if it is not the end of game round 10, play proceeds to the next game round starting with a new Westeros Phase.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook · p.5 · Choosing Vassals · Ordering Vassals

[2] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.12 · Not Enough Order Tokens? · 2. Reveal Orders · 3. Use Messenger Raven

[3] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.14 · The AcTion phAse · 1. Resolve Raid Orders · Other ruleS fOr raid OrderS

[4] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.15 · 2. Resolve March Orders

[5] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.16 · 3. Resolve Consolidate Power Orders · 4. Clean Up · remOving/reSOlving OrderS

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 373 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.92698 of 2520 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 19, 2026 01:18 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	taking COntrOl Of enemy pOrtS · trade with the free CitieS · E  P U	p.25	0.046161 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	Not Enough Order Tokens? · 2. Reveal Orders · 3. Use Messenger Raven	p.12	0.046038 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	2. Resolve March Orders	p.15	0.032266 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	Choosing Vassals · Ordering Vassals	p.5	0.032018 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	E  C P	p.4	0.031754 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	winninG The GAme · C P O E	p.16	0.031258 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	2. Resolve March Orders	p.15	0.03009 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	3. Resolve Consolidate Power Orders · 4. Clean Up · remOving/reSOlving OrderS	p.16	0.029211 (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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 80 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	Not Enough Order Tokens? · 2. Reveal Orders · 3. Use Messenger Raven	p.12	#2	0.046038 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	2. Resolve March Orders	p.15	#3	0.032266 (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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	The AcTion phAse · 1. Resolve Raid Orders · Other ruleS fOr raid OrderS	p.14	#43	0.009804 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	2. Resolve March Orders	p.15	#7	0.03009 (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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	I T	p.6	#13	0.022614 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	THE IRON BANK OF BRAAVOS · Purchasing Loans · Paying Interest	p.9	#12	0.02669 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	Choosing Vassals · Ordering Vassals	p.5	#4	0.032018 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	3. Resolve Consolidate Power Orders · 4. Clean Up · remOving/reSOlving OrderS	p.16	#8	0.029211 (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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	Choosing Vassals · Ordering Vassals	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	Not Enough Order Tokens? · 2. Reveal Orders · 3. Use Messenger Raven	p.12	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	The AcTion phAse · 1. Resolve Raid Orders · Other ruleS fOr raid OrderS	p.14	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	2. Resolve March Orders	p.15	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	3. Resolve Consolidate Power Orders · 4. Clean Up · remOving/reSOlving OrderS	p.16	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 117 ms · first delta 4684 ms · total 8066 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 117 ms · ask 7945 ms · gateway work 8066 ms · total 8066 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4279
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 681
tok/sec: 204.4 tok/sec — 681 output tokens in 3.331 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 38s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 9s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 301), 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.