Ruling — Hansa Teutonica

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Hansa Teutonicabg-43015-en-1e

Players take turns in clockwise order.[1] On your turn, you can perform actions in any order and may repeat the same action as desired, but you must completely finish each action before selecting another (or selecting it again).[1] At the start of the game, you may only take 2 actions per turn, though developing the Actions ability can increase this up to 5 actions per turn.[1]

The following 5 actions are available to choose from:

1. **Income**: Depending on your Bank ability development level, you can transfer up to 3, 5, 7, or all of your tradesmen in the general stock to your personal supply.[1]

2. **Place 1 tradesman**: You can place 1 tradesman from your personal supply in a free connection point on a trade route that is not already occupied by you or an opponent.[1]

3. **Displace 1 of your opponent's tradesmen and replace it with 1 of your own**: (Specifics for this action vary based on certain map locations).[1][2]

4. **Move your tradesmen on the board**: Depending on your Book of Knowledge ability development level, you can move 2 to 5 of your own tradesmen from connection points on one or more trade routes and place them on free connection points on one or more trade routes.[3]

5. **Create 1 trade route**: This action involves several steps:

* If a bonus marker is next to the newly created trade route, take it and place it faceup to the left of your writing desk.[4][3][5]

* Immediately draw a new bonus marker from the supply and place it facedown (with the side showing bread and meat visible) on the silver plate on your writing and desk.[4] If the supply is empty, the game ends immediately after this action.[4][6][3]

* Use 1 tradesman from the route to establish a trading post in the leftmost empty trading post space in one of the two cities at either end of the trade route.[3]

* At the end of your turn, place 1 new bonus marker on the game board for each one you have taken this turn.[4] This placement happens after the play of any +3 or +4 Actions bonus markers.[4]

Additionally, at the beginning of your turn, you may choose to forego all actions to acquire 1 Emperor's Favour tile by flipping 2 unused bonus tokens over and placing them to the right of your writing desk.[7] You can also use bonus markers at any time during your turn, but not in the same action in which you took it; using a bonus marker does not cost an action.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook · p.4 · Game Play · A) Income · B) Place 1 tradesman

[2] RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook · p.12 · London (England) · Remarks: · Limitations for the bonus marker Move 3 Tradesmen :

[3] RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook · p.14 · 2) Take Bonus Marker · 3a) Establish T rading Post · East-West Connection · 3b) Develop Ability · 3c) Special Prestige Points · End of Game

[4] RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook · p.8 · Bonus Markers

[5] RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook · p.5 · 2) Take Bonus Marker

[6] RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook · p.7 · End of Game · Tally your Prestige Points · A) Prestige Points from the Prestige Points track · B) Prestige Points for fully developed abilities · C) Prestige Points for total bonus markers collected · D) Special Prestige Points for Coellen

[7] RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook · p.10 · During the game · At the end of the game

🔧 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 78 ms · ask 6276 ms · total 6356 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6356 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 313 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 313 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 0.91752 of 1952 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 12, 2026 17:44

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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Bonus Markers	p.8	0.048412 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	2) Take Bonus Marker	p.5	0.048387 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Game Play · A) Income · B) Place 1 tradesman	p.4	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
#4	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	During the game · At the end of the game	p.10	0.046635 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	2) Take Bonus Marker · 3a) Establish T rading Post · East-West Connection · 3b) Develop Ability · 3c) Special Prestige Points · End of Game	p.14	0.045285 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	3b) Develop 1 Ability · 3c) Special Prestige Points	p.6	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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Game Setup · A) Income · B) Place 1 tradesman · C) Displace 1 of your opponents' tradesmen and replace it with 1 of your own · E) Create 1 trade route · 1) Score Prestige Points	p.14	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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	E) Create 1 trade route	p.4	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

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 31 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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Bonus Markers	p.8	#1	0.048412 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Game Play · A) Income · B) Place 1 tradesman	p.4	#3	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
#3	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	During the game · At the end of the game	p.10	#4	0.046635 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	End of Game · Tally your Prestige Points · A) Prestige Points from the Prestige Points track · B) Prestige Points for fully developed abilities · C) Prestige Points for total bonus markers collected · D) Special Prestige Points for Coellen	p.7	#18	0.012821 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	London (England) · Remarks: · Limitations for the bonus marker Move 3 Tradesmen :	p.12	#21	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
#6	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Game Setup	p.3	#10	0.014286 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	2) Take Bonus Marker · 3a) Establish T rading Post · East-West Connection · 3b) Develop Ability · 3c) Special Prestige Points · End of Game	p.14	#5	0.045285 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	2) Take Bonus Marker	p.5	#2	0.048387 (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 Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Game Play · A) Income · B) Place 1 tradesman	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	London (England) · Remarks: · Limitations for the bonus marker Move 3 Tradesmen :	p.12	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	2) Take Bonus Marker · 3a) Establish T rading Post · East-West Connection · 3b) Develop Ability · 3c) Special Prestige Points · End of Game	p.14	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	Bonus Markers	p.8	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	2) Take Bonus Marker	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	End of Game · Tally your Prestige Points · A) Prestige Points from the Prestige Points track · B) Prestige Points for fully developed abilities · C) Prestige Points for total bonus markers collected · D) Special Prestige Points for Coellen	p.7	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Hansa Teutonica — Rulebook (corpus doc 313)	During the game · At the end of the game	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 78 ms · first delta 2060 ms · total 6356 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 78 ms · ask 6276 ms · gateway work 6356 ms · total 6356 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4364
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 578
tok/sec: 136.9 tok/sec — 578 output tokens in 4.221 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 38s 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 241), 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.