Ruling — Dune — RuleSage

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How do I play?

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1. Place all spice tokens in the Spice Bank.[1]

2. Shuffle the Spice Deck and Treachery Deck and place them face down next to the game board.[1]

3. Players choose factions, which can be done by using faction cards from the Prediction Deck to randomly determine what faction each player will play, or by having players randomly draw a card from the Bene Gesserit turn prediction cards and selecting a faction in the order of their drawn card, with the highest card choosing first.[1]

4. Players may swap factions with each other at this point if they wish.[1]

5. Players place their Player Marker on the player circle closest to their shield and seat at the table.[2]

6. (If playing as the Prediction advantage) After step 1 (Positions) in the Setup Phase, secretly predict when one other faction will win by placing a turn number card and a faction card from your prediction cards face down behind your Player Shield.[3]

7. When resolving battles, the First Player is named the aggressor and chooses the order in which they wish to fight their battles.[4]

8. The player to the immediate right of the First Player becomes the aggressor, and so on, until all battles are resolved.[4]

9. If three or more players are in the same territory, the aggressor picks who they will battle first, second, etc., for as long as they survive.[4]

10. A player must always play either a leader or a cheap hero card as part of their Battle Plan if possible; if not possible, they must announce that fact.[5]

11. Players with a leader or cheap hero may play a Weapon Treachery Card, Defense Treachery Card, or both by holding them against the wheel, or they may play no Treachery Cards.[6]

12. If a player's opponent played a Weapon Treachery Card and the player did not play the proper Defense Treachery Card, the player's leader is killed and cannot count toward their total.[7]

[1] RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook · p.6 · SET-UP FOR PLAY

[2] RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook · p.6 · 1. Positions

[3] RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook · p.18 · ADVANTAGES

[4] RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook · p.10 · First Player

[5] RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook · p.10 · Leaders

[6] RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook · p.10 · Treachery Cards

[7] RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook · p.11 · Weapons

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 205 ms · ask 4511 ms · total 4719 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4719 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 6, "score": 0.045921, "snippet": "Place all spice tokens in the Spice Bank. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. The Spice Deck and Treachery Deck are shuffled and placed face down next to the game board. Played cards will be piled face up next to the decks as discards a", "headingPath": "SET-UP FOR PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.04526, "snippet": "Players with a leader or cheap hero may play a Weapon Treachery Card, Defense Treachery Card, or both by holding them against the wheel. They may play no Treachery Cards as well.", "headingPath": "Treachery Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.043461, "snippet": "The Rulebook contains the Basic Game and Advanced Game Sections as well as Strategy Hints, Q&A, and Dune Synopsis. There are 6 sequence of play quick reference cards to help you keep track of the order that everything happens in a turn. SPICE BLOW", "headingPath": "Rulebook, Quick Start Guide, & Quick Reference cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.041176, "snippet": "The winning player loses only the number of forces they dialed on the Battle Wheel. These forces are placed in the Tleilaxu Tanks. The winning player may also keep or discard any of the cards they played.", "headingPath": "Winning", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Players place their Player Marker on the player circle closest to their shield and seat at the table.", "headingPath": "1. Positions", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Starting with the First Player and proceeding counterclockwise , each player in turn ships forces down to the planet or brings in forces from the southern hemisphere (Fremen) and then moves their forces on the game board.", "headingPath": "6. Shipment and Movement Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 19, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "SHIP AND MOVE WHEN YOU WISH: You may take your shipment and move action out of turn. This would allow you to go first or last or in between other players' turns, however you wish. The rest of the factions must make their shipments and moves in the proper sequence. You do not have to reveal when you ", "headingPath": "ADVANCED GAME ADVANTAGE", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Each player picks up a Battle Wheel and secretly dials a number from zero to the number of forces they have in the disputed territory. Both players will lose the number of forces dialed on the Battle Wheel.", "headingPath": "Battle Wheel", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SET-UP FOR PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1. Positions", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 18, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ADVANTAGES", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "First Player", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Leaders", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Treachery Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Weapons", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 104 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 104 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 0.93490 of 1536 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 26, 2026 03:46 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 Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	SET-UP FOR PLAY	p.6	0.045921 (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 Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Treachery Cards	p.10	0.04526 (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))	178
#3	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Rulebook, Quick Start Guide, & Quick Reference cards	p.4	0.043461 (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))	247
#4	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Winning	p.11	0.041176 (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))	204
#5	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	1. Positions	p.6	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))	101
#6	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	6. Shipment and Movement Phase	p.7	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))	221
#7	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	ADVANCED GAME ADVANTAGE	p.19	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
#8	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Battle Wheel	p.10	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))	206

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 — 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 at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	1. Positions	p.6	#5	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Treachery Cards	p.10	#2	0.04526 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	First Player	p.10	#36	0.013699 (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 Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Weapons	p.11	#10	0.027757 (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 Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	BATTLE	p.23	#30	0.016393 (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))	full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	ADVANTAGES	p.18	#12	0.027638 (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 Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Leaders	p.10	#9	0.028006 (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 Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	SET-UP FOR PLAY	p.6	#1	0.045921 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	SET-UP FOR PLAY	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	1. Positions	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	ADVANTAGES	p.18	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	First Player	p.10	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Leaders	p.10	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Treachery Cards	p.10	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104)	Weapons	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 205 ms · first delta 2582 ms · total 4719 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 205 ms · ask 4511 ms · gateway work 4719 ms · total 4719 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 1469
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 426
tok/sec: 203.7 tok/sec — 426 output tokens in 2.091 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 8s 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 35), 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.