Ruling — Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection

← Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Liberty or Death: The American Insurrectionbg-165872-en-1e

1. Reveal the top card of the draw deck and place it onto a played cards pile.[1]

2. Reveal the next card and place it on top of the draw deck.[1]

3. Play the card on the played card stack first.[1]

4. Play the card on top of the draw deck next.[1]

5. If a Winter Quarters card is turned up, stop play, swap it with the played card, and conduct a Winter Quarters Round immediately.[1]

6. As steps of each Event card play are completed, place a cylinder of the Faction's color into the appropriate box on the Sequence of Play track (or advance the Winter Quarters marker for Winter Quarters Rounds).[1]

7. When playing an Event card, up to two Factions execute Commands or the Event.[1]

8. Factions whose cylinder is in the 'Eligible' box receive options in the left-to-right order of the Faction symbols shown at the top of the card.[1]

9. Factions with cylinders in the 'Ineligible' box do nothing.[1]

10. The 1st Eligible Faction (the leftmost symbol, skipping Ineligible Factions) may execute a Command or Event, or Pass.[1]

11. If the 1st or 2nd Eligible Faction opts to Pass, it receives +1 Resource if Patriots or Indians, or +2 Resources if British or French, and remains Eligible for the next card.[1]

12. If a Faction passes, the next leftmost Eligible Faction replaces them as the new 1st or 2nd Eligible Faction and receives the same options.[1]

13. If the last (rightmost) Eligible Faction Passes, adjust cylinders and play the next card.[1]

14. To play the next card, move the draw deck's top card onto the played card pile face-up and reveal the draw deck's next card.[2]

15. If the just revealed card is a Winter Quarters card, switch it with the played Event card so it becomes the current played card.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook · p.7 · 2.2 Start · 2.3 Event Cards · 2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.

[2] RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook · p.8 · 2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.

The table has its answer — dice up.

🔧 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 155 ms · ask 6738 ms · total 6895 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6895 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 7, "score": 0.046898, "snippet": "Begin play by revealing the top card of the draw deck and placing it onto a played cards pile. Then reveal the next card and place it on top of the draw deck. The card on the played card stack is played first; the card on top of the draw deck will be played next. Note: Players will see one card ahea", "headingPath": "2.2 Start · 2.3 Event Cards · 2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 23, "score": 0.046751, "snippet": "A Non-player Faction that has too few Resources to pay even the minimum amount possible for the selected Command (e.g., Non-player French attempting to Muster with only 1 Resource to spend) immediately follows the flowchart instructions as if the Faction were unable to execute any of the instruction", "headingPath": "8.1 Non-Player Sequence of Play", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.045037, "snippet": "If a Faction played a Brilliant Stroke card (2.3.8), all Factions to 'Eligible'. Play Note: Some Events (5.0) will enable the executing Faction to remain Eligible or render other Factions Ineligible through the next card. As a reminder, mark a Faction thus remaining Eligible by placing its cylinder ", "headingPath": "2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 23, "score": 0.04375, "snippet": "The Non-player flowcharts describe the order in which the Nonplayers attempt to execute the options available to them. Options that would be illegal to execute are ignored. Non-players must follow all rules in chapters 1-7 except for the following: Commands Not Limited. Whenever a Non-player Faction", "headingPath": "8.1 Non-Player Sequence of Play", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 23, "score": 0.04324, "snippet": "This section governs actions by any Factions beyond those represented by a player, for solitaire or as an alternative to the No Non-Player option for two or three players (1.5). See also the Playbook's Non-Player Examples of Play. Each Non-player Faction has a flowchart determining its actions. Due ", "headingPath": "8.0 Non-Player Factions", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 22, "score": 0.042046, "snippet": "You have read all rules needed for four players or the No Non-Player option with two or three players. (1.5, recommended for first-time play)", "headingPath": "STOP!", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 32, "score": 0.040829, "snippet": "A lone player plays either any one Faction against three Nonplayers, or British and Indian together, or Patriot and French together (1.5), with the remaining Factions controlled by Nonplayers. A player playing two Factions together uses the lower victory margin (7.3) of those two Factions. To succee", "headingPath": "8.8 One-Player Victory", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.038254, "snippet": "The game may have up to four players, each as one or more Factions: the British (red and green), the Patriots (blue), the Indians (tan), and the French (white). In a one-player game, the player may play the British and Indians together, or the Patriots and French, or any one Faction (8.8). Leftover ", "headingPath": "1.5 Players & Factions", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "2.2 Start · 2.3 Event Cards · 2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.", "sharpsignalDocId": 1251}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1251 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1251 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 0.90466 of 1416 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 15:16 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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	2.2 Start · 2.3 Event Cards · 2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.	p.7	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
#2	RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.1 Non-Player Sequence of Play	p.23	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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.	p.8	0.045037 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.1 Non-Player Sequence of Play	p.23	0.04375 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.0 Non-Player Factions	p.23	0.04324 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	STOP!	p.22	0.042046 (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))	141
#7	RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.8 One-Player Victory	p.32	0.040829 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	1.5 Players & Factions	p.5	0.038254 (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 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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	2.2 Start · 2.3 Event Cards · 2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.	p.7	#1	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
#2	RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.	p.8	#3	0.045037 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.2 Random Spaces	p.24	#22	0.022394 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.7 Non-Player Indian Actions	p.30	#36	0.019318 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.0 Non-Player Factions	p.23	#5	0.04324 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	8.1 Non-Player Sequence of Play	p.23	#4	0.04375 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	1.5 Players & Factions	p.5	#8	0.038254 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	STOP!	p.22	#6	0.042046 (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 Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	2.2 Start · 2.3 Event Cards · 2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection — Rulebook (corpus doc 1251)	2.3.4 Options for Eligible Factions.	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 155 ms · first delta 4572 ms · total 6895 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 155 ms · ask 6738 ms · gateway work 6895 ms · total 6895 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2914
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 456
tok/sec: 201.5 tok/sec — 456 output tokens in 2.263 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 1s 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 1181), 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.