Ruling — Unmatched: Cobble & Fog

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Asked with: Unmatched: Cobble & Fogbg-294484-en-1e

Setup

1. Assemble the health dials by punching out the two circles for each character and connecting them with a rivet.[1]

2. Choose a battlefield and place it on the table.[2]

3. Each player chooses a hero and takes the corresponding 30 action cards, character card, hero miniature, sidekick tokens, health dials, and any other components for their hero.[2]

4. Each player sets their hero's starting health and their sidekick's starting health on the matching health dials using the starting health found on the character cards (sidekicks without a health dial have only one health each).[2]

5. Each player shuffles their action cards to form a single deck, places it face down, and draws 5 cards as a starting hand.[2]

6. The younger player places their hero in the 1 space on the battlefield, then places their sidekicks in separate spaces within the same zone as their hero (if the hero is in a space that is part of multiple zones, sidekicks may be in any of those zones).[2]

7. The older player places their hero in the 2 space on the battlefield, then places their sidekicks using the same rules as the younger player.[2]

Gameplay

Players take turns maneuvering their fighters on the battlefield, playing schemes, and attacking their opponent's fighters.[3][1][4] The younger player takes the first turn.[2]

Maneuver Action

1. Players may take a maneuver action to move fighters.[3][5]

2. You may boost your movement by discarding 1 card from your hand and adding that card's BOOST value to your movement value.[5][6]

Scheme Action

1. Choose a scheme card from your hand and play it onto the table, face up.[5][6]

2. Declare which of your fighters is playing the scheme card (the active fighter).[5][6]

3. Resolve the card's effect, then place the card into your discard pile.[5][6]

Attack Action

1. Declare which of your fighters is performing the attack (the active fighter).[5][6]

2. Declare a target:

* Any fighter may target a fighter in an adjacent space, regardless of zone.[5][6]

* Fighters with melee attacks may only target a fighter in an adjacent space.[5][6]

* Fighters with ranged attacks may target an adjacent fighter or a fighter anywhere in the same zone, regardless of adjacency.[7][5][6]

3. Choose and Reveal:

* As the attacker, choose an attack card from your hand and play it face down in front of you; it must be a card your attacking fighter is allowed to use.[7][5][6]

* The defender may (but is not required to) choose a defense card from their hand and place it face down in front of them; it must be a card their defending fighter is allowed to use.[7][5]

* Once both players have chosen, reveal the cards at the same time.[7][5]

Scoring and Ending the Game

1. To win, you must be the first to defeat your opponent's hero, which happens when they are reduced to zero health.[3][1][4]

2. If a player's hero is defeated, remove the hero miniature from the battlefield; that player continues to take turns as long as they have at least one sidekick left.[8]

3. If all of a player's fighters are defeated, they are eliminated and do not take any more turns.[8]

4. In team play, the opposing team wins when both heroes on one team have been defeated.[8]

[1] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.3

[2] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.4 · HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES

[3] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.3

[4] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.3 · CONTENTS · DRACULA · SHERLOCK HOLMES · JEKYLL & HYDE · INVISIBLE MAN · HOW TO PLAY

[5] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.6 · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL

[6] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.6

[7] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.6

[8] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook · p.10 · INVISIBLE MAN: FOG · TEAM PLAY

Settled. Play on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 165 ms · ask 5773 ms · total 5939 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5939 ms
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base rulebook doc 330 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 0.89808 of 2659 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 26, 2026 12:15 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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	INVISIBLE MAN: FOG · TEAM PLAY	p.10	0.047131 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.3	0.046964 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL	p.6	0.046898 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	0.046676 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.6	0.046244 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.3	0.045928 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	STEP 3: RESOLVE COMBAT · WINNING THE COMBAT · DEFEATING A FIGHTER · WINNING THE GAME	p.7	0.045285 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	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

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 21 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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.3	#2	0.046964 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	#4	0.046676 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.3	#6	0.045928 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.6	#9	0.028986 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL	p.6	#3	0.046898 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	CONTENTS · DRACULA · SHERLOCK HOLMES · JEKYLL & HYDE · INVISIBLE MAN · HOW TO PLAY	p.3	#10	0.028814 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.6	#5	0.046244 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	INVISIBLE MAN: FOG · TEAM PLAY	p.10	#1	0.047131 (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 Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	CONTENTS · DRACULA · SHERLOCK HOLMES · JEKYLL & HYDE · INVISIBLE MAN · HOW TO PLAY	p.3	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL	p.6	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Cobble & Fog — Rulebook (corpus doc 330)	INVISIBLE MAN: FOG · TEAM PLAY	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 165 ms · first delta 1773 ms · total 5939 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 165 ms · ask 5773 ms · gateway work 5939 ms · total 5939 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4154
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 816
tok/sec: 200.7 tok/sec — 816 output tokens in 4.065 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 8s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 10s 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 258), 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.