Ruling — Britannia

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In Britannia, the order of play depends on nations, not players.[1] During each game round, each nation takes its nation turn in the order stated in the Nation List printed on the board.[1]

The structure of a turn depends on the specific nation and whether certain conditions are met:

* Standard Nation Turn: Each nation's turn consists of five phases.[1]

* Major Invasion Turn: If a nation has a Major Invasion, the controlling player takes two Movement and Battles/Retreats Phases in this specific order:

1. First Movement Phase [2]

2. First Battles/Retreats Phase [2]

3. Second Movement Phase [2]

4. Second Battles/Retreats Phase [2]

(Note: No other phases of the nation's turn are duplicated during a Major Invasion [2]).

* Major Invasion with Raider Withdrawal: For certain nations (such as the Scots in Round 7 or the Norse in Round 11), the phases are:

1. First Movement Phase [3]

2. First Battles/Retreats Phase [3]

3. Second Movement Phase [3]

4. Second Battles/Retreats Phase [3]

5. Raider Withdrawal Phase [3]

If a nation has not yet entered the game or has already left the game, its nation turn is simply skipped.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook · p.6 · Angle Point Limit · The Nation Turn

[2] RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook · p.10 · Major Invasions · Raiding Turns · 1. Remain at Sea · 2. Retreat Back to Sea

[3] RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook · p.10 · Pict Raiding · 3. Withdraw Back to Sea · Things to Note About Raiding

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🔧 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 148 ms · ask 3075 ms · total 5990 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 2764 ms · generation 3226 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1073 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1073 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 0.88761 of 952 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 26, 2026 23:49 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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Angle Point Limit · The Nation Turn	p.6	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Major Invasions · Raiding Turns · 1. Remain at Sea · 2. Retreat Back to Sea	p.10	0.046964 (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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Victory Points and the Nation Card · Holding Areas	p.4	0.043908 (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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	The Danish Turn in Round 14 and King Cnut · The King in Round 16 · Round XVI Special Reinforcements · Norwegians	p.18	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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Tracking Occupied Areas	p.17	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
#6	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Boat Movement · Inv asions and Raiding	p.9	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
#7	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	The King · The Danish Turn in Round 11	p.18	0.029851 (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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Holding Areas	p.5	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 73 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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Angle Point Limit · The Nation Turn	p.6	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Major Invasions · Raiding Turns · 1. Remain at Sea · 2. Retreat Back to Sea	p.10	#2	0.046964 (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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Welsh , brigante , and Pict Submission to Roman Rule	p.15	#27	0.013699 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Roman Withdrawal in Round vi and Placement of Romano -British Armies · The Romans · Tips for Your First Game	p.16	#10	0.028814 (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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Pict Raiding · 3. Withdraw Back to Sea · Things to Note About Raiding	p.10	#30	0.012987 (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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	The Danish Turn in Round 14 and King Cnut · The King in Round 16 · Round XVI Special Reinforcements · Norwegians	p.18	#4	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Welsh , brigante , and Pict Submission to Roman Rule	p.15	#12	0.028006 (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 Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Belgae Submission And Boudicca ' s Revol t · Roman Withdrawal in Round vi and Placement of Romano -British Armies	p.15	#13	0.027673 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Angle Point Limit · The Nation Turn	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Major Invasions · Raiding Turns · 1. Remain at Sea · 2. Retreat Back to Sea	p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Britannia — Rulebook (corpus doc 1073)	Pict Raiding · 3. Withdraw Back to Sea · Things to Note About Raiding	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 148 ms · first delta 1609 ms · total 5990 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 2764 ms · retrieval 148 ms · ask 3075 ms · gateway work 3226 ms · total 5990 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3547
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 305
tok/sec: 199.1 tok/sec — 305 output tokens in 1.532 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 45s 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 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 1003), 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.