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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Combat Commander: Europebg-21050-en-1e

A Turn consists of a player choosing to do one of the following:
1. Perform one or more Orders by playing cards from his hand.[1]
2. Discard any number of Fate cards.[1]
If a player chooses to perform no Orders, they may instead discard any number of cards up to, but not exceeding, the discard capability of the nation they are commanding.[1][2]
Regarding the components of a Turn:
* Orders: A player may not give an Order without playing a card from their hand.[1] Orders are played from the hand and executed one at a time.[1] A player may observe the results of one Order before deciding whether to play another.[1] The maximum number of Orders a player may perform is listed in their side's OB or the scenario.[1]
* Actions: A player may not announce an Action without playing a card from their hand.[1] There is no limit to the number of Actions a player may perform during a Turn other than the number of cards in hand.[1] Actions may be played at any time during either player's Turn, provided the prerequisite is met.[1][3][4]
* End of Turn: After a player finishes their Turn, they draw up to their Hand Size.[1] Turns are alternated until the game ends via a Sudden Death Roll or other occurrence.[1]
[1] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook · p.6 · 5. Sequence of Play · 5.1.Order.Capability · 5.2.Action.Capability · 5.3.Discard.Capability
[2] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook · p.10 · O15. Pass (Discard) · O16..Advance · O16.1 Procedure · O16.2.Abilities · O16.3.Restrictions · O16.4.Melee · …
[3] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook · p.3 · 1.5.Orders · 1.6.Actions · 1.7.Events · -Pierre Elliott Trudeau ASSAULT FIRE ASSAULT FIRE
[4] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook · p.2 · GLOSSARY

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outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile
live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
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timings
search 176 ms · ask 8779 ms · total 8957 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 8957 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 353 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 353 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 0.91261 of 1007 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded
Aug 24, 2026 19:10 UTC

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 5. Sequence of Play · 5.1.Order.Capability · 5.2.Action.Capability · 5.3.Discard.Capability p.6 0.048412 (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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 5.4 Hand Refill · 6..Game.Time · 6.1.1 Placement · 6.1.2.Advancement · 6.2.Sudden.Death.Marker p.6 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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) O21.4.Movement.Restrictions · O21.5.Movement.Etiquette · O21.6.Timing.&.Movement · O22..Recover p.14 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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 9.1.Re-Roll · 9.2.Tie.Game · 10.1.LOS.Checks · 10.1.1.Units.&.LOS p.8 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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) O15. Pass (Discard) · O16..Advance · O16.1 Procedure · O16.2.Abilities · O16.3.Restrictions · O16.4.Melee · … p.10 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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 6.2.1 Placement · 6.2.2 Procedure · 6.3.Game.End p.6 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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) O18.2.2.Accuracy p.11 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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 4.1.Victory.Track · 4.2.Casualty.Track · 4.3.Miscellaneous p.5 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

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 — not 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 atdocumentheadingpage fused rankfused RRF scorecarried byhow it got its slot
#1 RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 5. Sequence of Play · 5.1.Order.Capability · 5.2.Action.Capability · 5.3.Discard.Capability p.6 #1 0.048412 (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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) O15. Pass (Discard) · O16..Advance · O16.1 Procedure · O16.2.Abilities · O16.3.Restrictions · O16.4.Melee · … p.10 #5 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#3 RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 1.5.Orders · 1.6.Actions · 1.7.Events · -Pierre Elliott Trudeau ASSAULT FIRE ASSAULT FIRE p.3 #18 0.014493 (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 Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) E58.1.Heroes · E59. Infiltration · E60..Interdiction · E61..Interrogation · E62..KIA p.19 #13 0.025694 (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
#5 RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) GLOSSARY p.2 #37 0.01087 (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
#6 RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) GLOSSARY p.2 #17 0.015873 (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)) full-text the re-ranker chose it
#7 RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) p.24 #59 0.008547 (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
#8 RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) GLOSSARY p.2 #14 0.02522 (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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 5. Sequence of Play · 5.1.Order.Capability · 5.2.Action.Capability · 5.3.Discard.Capability p.6 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) O15. Pass (Discard) · O16..Advance · O16.1 Procedure · O16.2.Abilities · O16.3.Restrictions · O16.4.Melee · … p.10 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) 1.5.Orders · 1.6.Actions · 1.7.Events · -Pierre Elliott Trudeau ASSAULT FIRE ASSAULT FIRE p.3 no quote on the wire
[4] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Europe — Rulebook (corpus doc 353) GLOSSARY p.2 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 176 ms · first delta 6652 ms · total 8957 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 176 ms · ask 8779 ms · gateway work 8957 ms · total 8957 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3740
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
294
tok/sec
133.2 tok/sec — 294 output tokens in 2.208 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 3s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage)
reachable (for 22h, checked 2s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 281), 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.