Ruling — Axis & Allies: Europe 1940

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Setup

1. One or more players take the side of the Allies, and one or more players take the side of the Axis.[1]

2. Each player controls one or more world powers; if a player controls more than one power, those powers must all be on the same side.[1]

3. Place a power's control marker on the number on the national production chart that matches its starting IPC income.[1]

4. Place all of a power's starting units on the game board as listed on that power's setup chart.[1]

Order of Play

The order of play is:

1. Germany [2][3]

2. Soviet Union [2][3]

3. United States [2][3]

4. United Kingdom [2][3]

5. Italy [2][3]

6. France (controlled by an Allied player) [2][3]

Turn Sequence

A power's turn consists of six phases in a fixed sequence:[2][3]

1. Purchase and Repair Units [2][3][4]

2. Combat Move (Powers at War Only) [2][3][4]

3. Conduct Combat (Powers at War Only) [2][3][4]

4. Noncombat Move [2][3][4]

5. Mobilize New Units [2][3][4]

6. Collect Income [2][3][4]

Phase 1: Purchase and Repair Units Sequence [2][3]

1. Order units: Select all units you wish to purchase that you can afford and will be able to mobilize.[2][3]

2. Pay for units and repair damaged units and facilities: Pay IPCs to the bank for the total cost of units and pay 1 IPC per point of damage to repair facilities (industrial complexes, air bases, and naval bases).[2][3]

3. Place units in mobilization zone: Place purchased units in the mobilization zone on the game board.[2][3]

Combat Details [5]

* Attacking Units: Roll one die for each attacking unit with an attack value that didn't fire or sub-merge in step 2; an attacking unit scores a hit if you roll its attack value or less.[5]

* Defending Units: After the attacker rolls, the defender chooses 1 unit for each hit scored and moves it behind the casualty strip; all units behind the casualty strip return fire in step 4.[5]

* Defending Fire: Defending units roll one die for each unit with a defense value that didn't fire or submerge in step 2; a defending unit scores a hit if you roll its defense value or less.[5]

* Assigning Hits: After the defender rolls, the attacker chooses 1 unit for each hit scored and removes it from play.[5] As many hits as possible must be assigned.[5]

Ending the Game

The game is won by the following conditions:

* Axis Victory: The Axis wins by controlling either any 8 victory cities on the Europe map or any 6 victory cities on the Pacific map for a complete round of play (ending with the next turn of the Axis power that captured the final required city), as long as they control an Axis capital (Berlin, Rome, or Tokyo) at the end of that round.[6] (Note: Another source states the Axis wins by controlling 8 victory cities and an Axis capital of Berlin or Rome [7]).

* Allied Victory: The Allies win by controlling Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo for a complete round of play (ending with the next turn of the Allied power that captured the third capital), as long as they control an Allied capital (Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow) at the end of that round.[6] (Note: Another source states the Allies win by controlling Berlin and Rome and an Allied capital of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow [7]).

[1] RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook · p.8 · SETUP · Game Board/National Production Chart · Setup Charts · Combat Forces

[2] RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook · p.13

[3] RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook · p.13 · Strict Neutrals · ORDER OF PLAY · Order of Play · Phase 1: Purchase and Repair Units · Purchase Units Sequence · Step 1: Order Units · …

[4] RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook · p.4

[5] RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook · p.20 · Step 3. Attacking Units Fire · Step 4. Defending Units Fire

[6] RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook · p.35 · GLOBAL RULES · How the War is Won · Number of Players · Two players · Three players · Four players · …

[7] RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook · p.7 · SUMMARY OF PLAY · HOW THE WAR IS WON · Axis Victory · Allied Victory

Question closed. Friendships intact.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 1265 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 13:35 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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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.

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#2	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	SETUP · Game Board/National Production Chart · Setup Charts · Combat Forces	p.8	#3	0.046751 (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 Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	Strict Neutrals · ORDER OF PLAY · Order of Play · Phase 1: Purchase and Repair Units · Purchase Units Sequence · Step 1: Order Units · …	p.13	#2	0.047875 (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 Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)		p.4	#13	0.027397 (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 Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	GLOBAL RULES · How the War is Won · Number of Players · Two players · Three players · Four players · …	p.35	#10	0.029052 (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
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chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	SETUP · Game Board/National Production Chart · Setup Charts · Combat Forces	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)		p.13	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	Strict Neutrals · ORDER OF PLAY · Order of Play · Phase 1: Purchase and Repair Units · Purchase Units Sequence · Step 1: Order Units · …	p.13	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	Step 3. Attacking Units Fire · Step 4. Defending Units Fire	p.20	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	GLOBAL RULES · How the War is Won · Number of Players · Two players · Three players · Four players · …	p.35	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 — Rulebook (corpus doc 1265)	SUMMARY OF PLAY · HOW THE WAR IS WON · Axis Victory · Allied Victory	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 232 ms · first delta 5093 ms · total 9469 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 232 ms · ask 9234 ms · gateway work 9469 ms · total 9469 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3471
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 869
tok/sec: 200.7 tok/sec — 869 output tokens in 4.329 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 24h, 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 1195), 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.