Ruling — Mare Nostrum: Empires

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A round consists of Phases 1 through 5.[1] In each Phase, players take turns as the Active Player.[1]

Build Phase

1. The Culture Leader selects an Active Player to build first (the leader may choose themselves).[2]

2. Once the first Active Player finishes, the Culture Leader selects the next Active Player to build, continuing until all players have had a turn to build.[2]

3. A player builds items by spending Resources and placing the item on the map or their Empire mat.[2]

4. A player can choose to build Control Markers, Units, Buildings, and/or Heroes/Wonders in any order.[2]

5. At the end of each player's Build Phase turn, the player adjusts their Trade, Culture, and Military Track levels to reflect the Buildings, Units, and Hero & Wonder Leader Bonuses gained.[3]

Trade Resources Phase

1. The Trade Leader begins by claiming any one Resource offered by another player by placing it face down on his Empire Mat.[4]

2. The player whose Resource was taken by the Trade Leader then claims any one remaining face up Resource of his choice from any other player.[4]

3. Players continue claiming one Resource of their choice in sequence until all available face up Resources have been claimed.[4]

4. Two players may not claim each of each other's Resources twice in a row.[4]

5. If only two players remain and they have each already claimed one Resource from the other, the Trade Resources Phase ends.[4]

6. Once trading concludes, newly traded Resources are placed into each player's Resource Supply behind their Player Screens.[4]

Move & Battle Phase

1. The Military Leader determines the Active Player (the player who moves and battles first).[3]

2. Once the first player finishes, the Military Leader determines the next Active Player to move and battle, continuing until all players have had a turn.[3]

3. The Active Player moves and battles with their Triremes first, before moving and battling with their Legions.[3]

4. Triremes move from one Sea to any adjacent Sea.[3]

5. After Trireme movements are complete, if any are in a Sea occupied by an opponent's Triremes, the Active Player chooses whether or not to initiate a Sea Battle.[3]

6. If the Active Player chooses to attack, they must do so before moving their Legions.[3]

7. The Active Player may move any number of their Triremes and Legions.[3]

8. Each Legion may move to an adjacent or adjoining Province.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook · p.12 · /orn.003 Definitions

[2] RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook · p.6 · 3. Build Phase · ➢ Cleopatra may: · 1 Wonder can alter the storage rule: · 3.1 Build Rules

[3] RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook · p.7 · 3.2 Adjust Leader Tracks · 4. Move &Battle Phase · 4.1 Movement · 4.1.1 Sea Movement

[4] RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook · p.5 · 2.2 Trading Resources · 2.2.1 Uneven number of Resources taken

Settled. Play on.

🔧 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 123 ms · ask 4926 ms · total 5050 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5050 ms
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base rulebook doc 768 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 0.91629 of 1995 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 01:20 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.

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#2	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	3.2 Adjust Leader Tracks · 4. Move &Battle Phase · 4.1 Movement · 4.1.1 Sea Movement	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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	5. Claim leadership Phase	p.9	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 Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	2 Heroes and 2 Wonders give additional Resources: · 2.1 Play an Exchange Marker	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
#5	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	4.3.3 Convert Provincial Control · 1 Hero affects Conversion: · 4.3.4 Adjust Leader Tracks · 4.3.5 Special Case: Capital City	p.9	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 Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	. · queen of Sheba · RAMSES II · spartacus	p.11	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 Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	5. Claim leadership Phase · 6. Victory Conditions · 6.1 Pyramids · 6.2 Five Heroes and/or Wonders · 6.3 Four Capital and/or Legendary Cities · 6.4 Leader Titles · …	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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	caesar · cleopatra · You may: · hammurabi · hannibal · pericles · …	p.11	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 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 27 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 Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	7. Heroes and Wonders · 8. Diplomacy · Build · Q: Am I limited to how many Units I can build? · Move and Battle	p.10	#18	0.013158 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	1 Wonder and 4 Heroes can affect Battles: · 4.2.1 At War · 4.3 Conquests	p.8	#20	0.012821 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)		p.3	#15	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 Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	2.2 Trading Resources · 2.2.1 Uneven number of Resources taken	p.5	#11	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
#5	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	caesar · cleopatra · You may: · hammurabi · hannibal · pericles · …	p.11	#8	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	3. Build Phase · ➢ Cleopatra may: · 1 Wonder can alter the storage rule: · 3.1 Build Rules	p.6	#17	0.013333 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	/orn.003 Definitions	p.12	#10	0.028158 (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 Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	3.2 Adjust Leader Tracks · 4. Move &Battle Phase · 4.1 Movement · 4.1.1 Sea Movement	p.7	#2	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))	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 Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	/orn.003 Definitions	p.12	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	3. Build Phase · ➢ Cleopatra may: · 1 Wonder can alter the storage rule: · 3.1 Build Rules	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	3.2 Adjust Leader Tracks · 4. Move &Battle Phase · 4.1 Movement · 4.1.1 Sea Movement	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Mare Nostrum: Empires — Rulebook (corpus doc 768)	2.2 Trading Resources · 2.2.1 Uneven number of Resources taken	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 123 ms · first delta 2121 ms · total 5050 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 123 ms · ask 4926 ms · gateway work 5050 ms · total 5050 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4434
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 560
tok/sec: 199.2 tok/sec — 560 output tokens in 2.811 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 12s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 3s 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 702), 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.