Ruling — Combat Commander: Pacific

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Combat Commander: Pacificbg-28181-en-1e

To play, follow these rules regarding orders, actions, and turns:

Orders and Actions

* No player may give an order without playing a card from his hand.[1]

* A player may only play a card for its order during his own turn.[2]

* A player may not announce more orders in a turn than his "Order Limit," which is provided within the scenario being played.[1][2]

* Orders are played from the hand and executed one at a time; a player may observe the results of one order before deciding whether to play another.[1]

* A player may play a card for its action at any time during either player's turn, provided its prerequisite is met.[2]

* There is no limit to the number of actions a player may perform during either player's turn, other than the number of cards in hand.[1]

* When a card is played for either an order or an action, it is immediately placed face-up atop the player's discard pile, meaning that specific order or action cannot be played again until the card is redrawn.[2]

Events

* Events are never played from the hand; they occur via certain die rolls.[3][2]

* When an event occurs, normal gameplay pauses so the player can reveal the top card of his Fate deck, read the event aloud, and execute it.[3]

Turn End and Hand Refill

* If a player elects to perform no orders during his turn, he may instead discard any number of cards up to the Discard Limit of his nation (5 for US; 4 for Commonwealth; 3 for Japan; or 2 if night rules are in effect).[1]

* At the end of every turn, the active player must draw enough Fate cards from his draw pile so that his hand size equals his designated hand size.[1]

* If the last card of a player's deck is drawn, a Time Marker Advance may interrupt the draw; in this case, the discard pile is reshuffled to form a new face-down draw pile, and the hand refill resumes after the advance is concluded.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook · p.10 · 12.1 Order Limit · 12.2 Action Capability · 12.3 Discard Limit · 12.4 Hand Refill · 13. Game Time

[2] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook · p.5 · 1.4 Reshuffle · 1.5 Orders · 1.6 Actions · 1.7 Events

[3] RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook · p.22 · E49. General Rules · E50. Air Support

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 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 159 ms · ask 7232 ms · total 7394 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7394 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "12.1 Order Limit · 12.2 Action Capability · 12.3 Discard Limit · 12.4 Hand Refill · 13. Game Time", "sharpsignalDocId": 988}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1.4 Reshuffle · 1.5 Orders · 1.6 Actions · 1.7 Events", "sharpsignalDocId": 988}, {"page": 22, "quote": null, "headingPath": "E49. General Rules · E50. Air Support", "sharpsignalDocId": 988}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 988 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 988 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 0.92424 of 1518 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 15:48 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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	ACTIONS · A32. General Rules · A33. Ambush · A34. Bayonets · A35. Bore Sighting	p.20	0.048139 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	1.4 Reshuffle · 1.5 Orders · 1.6 Actions · 1.7 Events	p.5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	11.2 Casualty Track · 11.3 Miscellaneous · 12. Sequence of Play	p.10	0.044764 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	12.1 Order Limit · 12.2 Action Capability · 12.3 Discard Limit · 12.4 Hand Refill · 13. Game Time	p.10	0.044563 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	13.1.2 Advancement · 13.2.1 Placement · 13.2.2 Procedure · 13.3 Game End · 13.3.1 Game End via Elimination · 13.3.2 Game End via Exit or Time · …	p.11	0.043425 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	13.1.1 Placement · 13.1.2 Advancement	p.10	0.043011 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	O24.1 Communication Established · O24.2 Communication Restored · O24.3 Fire For Effect	p.15	0.040404 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	O21. Pass (Discard) · O22. Advance · O22.1 Procedure · O22.2 Abilities · O22.3 Restrictions · O23. Asset Denied	p.15	0.040055 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	E49. General Rules · E50. Air Support	p.22	#10	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
#2	RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	A41.2 Procedure · A41.3 Exceptions	p.20	#26	0.022604 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	O28.1 Hide · O28.2 Reveal · O29. Move	p.19	#13	0.026481 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	A43.3 Hidden Panji Trap · A43.4 Hidden Pillbox · A43.5 Hidden Trenchline · A43.6 Hidden Unit	p.21	#29	0.022032 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	O24.1 Communication Established · O24.2 Communication Restored · O24.3 Fire For Effect	p.15	#7	0.040404 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	12.1 Order Limit · 12.2 Action Capability · 12.3 Discard Limit · 12.4 Hand Refill · 13. Game Time	p.10	#4	0.044563 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	A47. Smoke Screen · A48. Sustained Fire	p.22	#25	0.022686 (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 Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	1.4 Reshuffle · 1.5 Orders · 1.6 Actions · 1.7 Events	p.5	#2	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	12.1 Order Limit · 12.2 Action Capability · 12.3 Discard Limit · 12.4 Hand Refill · 13. Game Time	p.10	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	1.4 Reshuffle · 1.5 Orders · 1.6 Actions · 1.7 Events	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Combat Commander: Pacific — Rulebook (corpus doc 988)	E49. General Rules · E50. Air Support	p.22	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 159 ms · first delta 5015 ms · total 7394 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 159 ms · ask 7232 ms · gateway work 7394 ms · total 7394 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3950
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 465
tok/sec: 200.6 tok/sec — 465 output tokens in 2.318 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 4s 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 918), 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.