Ruling — 878 Vikings: Invasions of England

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When does the game end?

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Asked with: 878 Vikings: Invasions of Englandbg-204516-en-1e

The conditions for when the game ends depend on the specific scenario being played:

**Standard Game / '878 Vikings'**

* The game ends when the Treaty of Wedmore is called.[1]

* The end of the game by Treaty occurs at the end of any Round if Treaty Cards belonging to all Factions of one or both sides have been played.[2]

* In Round V, it becomes possible to end the game by Treaty.[3]

* The Treaty of Wedmore game end condition is evaluated at the end of Rounds V, VI, and VII.[3]

* The game ends automatically if there are 14 or more Viking Control Markers on City Shires at the end of any Round (Vikings win).[3]

* The game ends automatically if there are no Viking Control Markers on the map at the end of any Round (English win).[3]

**Scenario: Alfred's Army**

* The scenario ends in one of three ways:

1. At the end of the 3rd round, if the Vikings have 3 or more Viking Control Markers on the map, they win; otherwise, the English win.[4]

2. At the end of any Round, if all 5 Viking Control Markers are either on the map (Vikings win) or on the Victory Track (English win).[4]

3. Immediately, if either Alfred or Guthrum is defeated and no longer on the map, the side with a Leader remaining wins.[4]

**Scenario: Northumbrian Raids**

* The scenario ends at the end of the 3rd Round, or if the Vikings have pulled all seven Viking Control Markers from the Victory Track.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook · p.4 · Advanced Setup Rules

[2] RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook · p.11 · GAME END & WINNING CONDITIONS · 8.1 Advanced Setup Rules · 8.0 Event Cards

[3] RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook · p.11 · 6.0 Draw Cards · 7.0 Game End by Conquest · 7.1 Game End by Treaty · 6.1 New Round

[4] RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook · p.15 · Special Rules · Scenario End and Victory Conditions

[5] RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook · p.14 · NORTHUMBRIAN RAIDS SCENARIO · Setup · Special Rules · Scenario End · Victory Conditions

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 255 ms · ask 11280 ms · total 11546 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 11546 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 832 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 832 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)
debug row retained until: Nov 8, 2026 17:35

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. How much wider that pool was is set gateway-side and is NOT REPORTED for this ruling, and neither are the answerer's final rows — so rulesage has nothing of its own to show beside these.

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
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#2	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	6.0 Draw Cards · 7.0 Game End by Conquest · 7.1 Game End by Treaty · 6.1 New Round	p.11	0.048652 (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 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	1.0 Rounds and Turns · 1.1 Game End Check	p.5	0.047619 (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 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	Special Rules · Scenario End and Victory Conditions	p.15	0.046175 (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 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	Advanced Setup Rules	p.4	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
#6	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	4.5 Berserker · 4.6 Cities · 4.7 The Fyrd	p.8	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
#7	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	5.2 Leader Ba/ttles	p.10	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 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	1.2 Turn Sequence	p.5	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

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.

the passages the answerer read: NOT RECORDED for this ruling. Any of three things leaves this empty, and they are all different from the answerer having had nothing to read: this ask may never have reached a gateway at all; a multi-book ask keeps each book's own context on that book's own page rather than here; or the gateway build that answered may simply not report it. What this NEVER means is that the answerer read nothing — an answer was composed from passages either way, and their absence here is a gap in what we were told, not in what it read.

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	Advanced Setup Rules	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	GAME END & WINNING CONDITIONS · 8.1 Advanced Setup Rules · 8.0 Event Cards	p.11	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	6.0 Draw Cards · 7.0 Game End by Conquest · 7.1 Game End by Treaty · 6.1 New Round	p.11	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	Special Rules · Scenario End and Victory Conditions	p.15	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK 878 Vikings: Invasions of England — Rulebook (corpus doc 832)	NORTHUMBRIAN RAIDS SCENARIO · Setup · Special Rules · Scenario End · Victory Conditions	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 255 ms · first delta 8972 ms · total 11546 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 255 ms · ask 11280 ms · gateway work 11546 ms · total 11546 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4327
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 371
tok/sec: 146.7 tok/sec — 371 output tokens in 2.529 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 36s ago)
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 767), 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.