Ruling — Battles of Westeros

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Battles of Westerosbg-67492-en-1e

In the Command Phase, the active player's turn involves the following sequence:

1. The active player rolls a number of dice equal to the number beside the battle plan's Order Rating icon.[1]

2. The player takes order tokens from the supply that match the dice results and adds them to any tokens carried over from the previous round to form an Order Pool.[1]

3. The active player draws cards from his Leadership deck equal to the number beside the battle plan's Leadership Rating icon, adding them to any cards carried over from the previous round to form a hand.[1]

4. Starting with the first player, each player in turn selects one of the following actions and executes it:[1]

* Use Order Token [1]

* Play Leadership card [1]

* Pass [1]

5. After a player performs an action, that player's turn is complete and their opponent becomes the active player to select an action.[1]

6. This process of selecting and executing an action is repeated until both players pass.[1]

Executing Actions:

* Using an Order Token:

1. The player discards the proper order tokens.[2]

2. The player decides whether the ordered unit will move and/or attack.[2]

3. All movement must be completed by the ordered unit before it attacks.[2]

4. If the unit is not attacking, its banner must be rotated to its inactive side after movement is complete.[3]

5. If the unit is attacking, the player must complete the movement of all units ordered during that turn before attacking with any unit.[3]

6. For each attacking unit, the player completes the Combat Sequence: Declare Attacker, Declare Target, Verify Line of Sight (LOS) and Range, Place Engagement Token (if necessary), Determine Attack Dice Roll, Attack Dice, Resolve Attack, and Rotate Attacker's Banner.[3]

7. After the combat, the player rotates the unit's banner to its inactive side.[3]

* Playing a Leadership Card:

1. The active player reveals the card they intend to play.[4]

2. The player selects a commander to play the card on.[4]

3. The player declares which commander is being used.[2]

4. The player pays any Command cost(s).[2]

5. The player moves one command token from his command board to the chosen commander's Commander card for each command resolved.[4]

6. The player declares all units to be ordered (all must be in the chosen commander's zone of control at the time of play).[2]

7. The player moves all ordered units.[2]

8. The player attacks with all ordered units.[2]

9. The Leadership card is discarded to the active player's Leadership discard pile.[4]

10. If the player wishes to use a tactic from the card's tactic box, they must show requirements are fulfilled and resolve the tactic either before or after all commands are resolved.[4]

* Passing:

1. A player can choose to pass instead of using an order token or Leadership card.[4]

2. Once a player passes, they can no longer use order tokens or Leadership cards until the next round.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook · p.12 · A. Receive Order Tokens · B. Draw Leadership Cards · 3. Command Phase

[2] RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook · p.16 · Ordering Units with an Order Token · Ordering Units with a Leadership Card · Commands

[3] RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook · p.18 · Moving Units · Attacking the Enemy · Combat Sequence

[4] RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook · p.13 · Play Leadership Card · Pass · 4. Regroup Phase

Answer in hand — your move.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 1272 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 0.90751 of 2422 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 15:37 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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#1	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Play Leadership Card · Pass · 4. Regroup Phase	p.13	0.048916 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	A. Receive Order Tokens · B. Draw Leadership Cards · 3. Command Phase	p.12	0.047183 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	3. Take Commanders · 4. Build Leadership Decks · 5. Place Round Track and Round Markers · 6. Place Morale Track and Morale Marker · 7. Create Token Stockpiles and Place Command Tokens · 8. Assign the Momentum Token · …	p.29	0.044557 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Forming Units · Playing the Game · 1. Rally Phase	p.10	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
#5	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	A. Determine Advantage · B. Refresh Commanders · C. Rally Units	p.10	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
#6	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	House Symbols · 2. Create the Battlefield · 3. Take Commanders	p.7	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
#7	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Moving Units	p.17	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
#8	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Tactics · 1. Check Requirements	p.17	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 59 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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	A. Receive Order Tokens · B. Draw Leadership Cards · 3. Command Phase	p.12	#2	0.047183 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Moving Units · Attacking the Enemy · Combat Sequence	p.18	#25	0.012346 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Play Leadership Card · Pass · 4. Regroup Phase	p.13	#1	0.048916 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	2. Spread level four fires. · Westeros	p.25	#33	0.01087 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Ordering Units with an Order Token · Ordering Units with a Leadership Card · Commands	p.16	#20	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
#6	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	12. Place Commander Units · 13. Place Non-commander Units · Skirmish Details	p.29	#24	0.0125 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Pursue X · Scorch the Earth	p.24	#11	0.02739 (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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Moving Units	p.17	#7	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))	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 Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	A. Receive Order Tokens · B. Draw Leadership Cards · 3. Command Phase	p.12	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Ordering Units with an Order Token · Ordering Units with a Leadership Card · Commands	p.16	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Moving Units · Attacking the Enemy · Combat Sequence	p.18	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Battles of Westeros — Rulebook (corpus doc 1272)	Play Leadership Card · Pass · 4. Regroup Phase	p.13	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 102 ms · first delta 2940 ms · total 6541 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 102 ms · ask 6436 ms · gateway work 6541 ms · total 6541 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3529
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 713
tok/sec: 201.1 tok/sec — 713 output tokens in 3.546 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 11s 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 1202), 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.