Ruling — Pavlov's House

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Pavlov's Housebg-219101-en-1e

Each turn consists of the following phases: [1]

Soviet Card Phase

1. Draw a hand of four Soviet Cards from the Soviet Card deck.[2] (If there are not enough cards remaining, shuffle the discards to create a new deck and draw the remaining cards needed).[2]

2. Use up to three of those cards for actions.[2] (You may only take one action per card drawn, for a maximum of three actions in this phase, and you may not take two actions from the same card).[2]

3. Discard all drawn cards, including those not used.[2]

Wehrmacht Card Phase

1. Resolve the Tactics Card, which is revealed at the beginning of the phase and whose effects apply for the rest of the turn.[3]

2. Resolve the three chosen Wehrmacht Cards from top to bottom.[3]

Soviet Counter Phase

1. Move three Soviet Counters (it is possible to move four instead of three).[4] (You can move a Soviet Counter from the Reserve box to a combat position or between combat positions, but you cannot move into a position occupied by a counter that is Exhausted or has a Disrupted token).[4]

2. Take actions with three Soviet Counters (it is possible to take four actions instead of three).[4] (You can only take one action with a counter on a turn; if the action exhausts the counter, flip it to its grayed out side; you must place an Action Token on the counter when taking an action).[4]

3. Remove all Action and Command Tokens placed on the Soviet Counters.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook · p.6 · 1.1 Game Overview · 1.2 The Game Board · 1.3 Line of Sight · Wehrmacht Counter Location

[2] RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook · p.7 · 2.0 Soviet Card Phase · Gameplay Example:

[3] RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook · p.32 · Setup:

[4] RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook · p.21 · 4.0 Soviet Counter Phase · Actions that Exhaust a counter · Actions that do not Exhaust a counter · Move (Does not Exhaust Counter) · Gameplay Examples:

[5] RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook · p.26 · Recover (Does Not Exhaust Counter) · Attributes · Inspire [I] · Storm Group [S] · Ending the Soviet Counter Phase

The book has spoken.

🔧 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 143 ms · ask 3102 ms · total 6848 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 3600 ms · generation 3248 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1223 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1223 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 0.91397 of 1174 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 24, 2026 20:59 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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	4.0 Soviet Counter Phase · Actions that Exhaust a counter · Actions that do not Exhaust a counter · Move (Does not Exhaust Counter) · Gameplay Examples:	p.21	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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Variants · Setup: · Gameplay Example:	p.31	0.047712 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Setup:	p.32	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
#4	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	2.0 Soviet Card Phase · Gameplay Example:	p.7	0.04598 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	1.1 Game Overview · 1.2 The Game Board · 1.3 Line of Sight · Wehrmacht Counter Location	p.6	0.045928 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Forward Observer [F] (Exhausts Counter) · Gameplay Example:	p.24	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
#7	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Gameplay Example:	p.20	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
#8	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Recover (Does Not Exhaust Counter) · Attributes · Inspire [I] · Storm Group [S] · Ending the Soviet Counter Phase	p.26	0.030366 (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 39 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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	2.0 Soviet Card Phase · Gameplay Example:	p.7	#4	0.04598 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Variants · Setup: · Gameplay Example:	p.31	#2	0.047712 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	7.2 Tactics Cards [Increased Difficulty] · Setup: · Gameplay Example:	p.30	#12	0.026901 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Recover (Does Not Exhaust Counter) · Attributes · Inspire [I] · Storm Group [S] · Ending the Soviet Counter Phase	p.26	#8	0.030366 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Ending the Game	p.28	#9	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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	1.1 Game Overview · 1.2 The Game Board · 1.3 Line of Sight · Wehrmacht Counter Location	p.6	#5	0.045928 (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 Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	4.0 Soviet Counter Phase · Actions that Exhaust a counter · Actions that do not Exhaust a counter · Move (Does not Exhaust Counter) · Gameplay Examples:	p.21	#1	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Setup:	p.32	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	1.1 Game Overview · 1.2 The Game Board · 1.3 Line of Sight · Wehrmacht Counter Location	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	2.0 Soviet Card Phase · Gameplay Example:	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Setup:	p.32	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	4.0 Soviet Counter Phase · Actions that Exhaust a counter · Actions that do not Exhaust a counter · Move (Does not Exhaust Counter) · Gameplay Examples:	p.21	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Pavlov's House — Rulebook (corpus doc 1223)	Recover (Does Not Exhaust Counter) · Attributes · Inspire [I] · Storm Group [S] · Ending the Soviet Counter Phase	p.26	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 143 ms · first delta 1470 ms · total 6848 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 3600 ms · retrieval 143 ms · ask 3102 ms · gateway work 3248 ms · total 6848 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4101
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 345
tok/sec: 201.2 tok/sec — 345 output tokens in 1.715 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 41s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 5h, 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 1153), 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.