You asked
What combat strength do House Targaryen's Dragon units have, and how do the dragon strength tokens on the round track raise it as the game goes on?
Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstainAsked with: A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition)bg-103343-en-1e
I looked through A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition)'s rulebook and couldn't find a solid answer to that one — and I'd rather tell you so than guess at your table. Try asking it another way, or ask me about setup, turns, or how the game ends: those I know cold.
The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.
Leader Name and Artwork: /The artwork and name identifying a personality from A Song of Ice and Fire . Combat Strength: /The Combat Strength of a revealed House card is added to its player's Combat Strength. Text Ability: /The House card's special ability that may affect the combat or some other asp
Each House is provided a limited number of units, tokens, and cards. If a player is using all his components of a particular type, he may not bring additional components of that type into play. Units that are destroyed in combat (or removed from the board for any other reason) are available to be mu
Each player takes the player screen that represents his House. /The player screen provides reference information, setup information, and enables players to sort and store components (such as Order tokens) privately during the game. Order token reference Starting units information Starting position o
Garrisons are special tokens that provide extra defense to the home area of each House. Each House starts the game with a Garrison token on its home area. Garrisons are not units, so they do not count toward Supply limits and may never be assigned an order. If a home area containing a Garrison is at
/The game board features three different Influence tracks: /The Iron /Throne track, the Fiefdoms track, and the King's Court track. /The player in the highest position on each track receives a specific Dominance token: /The Iron /Throne, the Valyrian Steel Blade, or the Messenger Raven. /The effects
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
- warm abstain
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- this ruling — W1 — generic warm abstain · receipt: none (generic)
- corpus profile
- live,vps
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 95 ms · ask 3125 ms · total 3222 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 3222 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 19, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Leader Name and Artwork: /The artwork and name identifying a personality from A Song of Ice and Fire . Combat Strength: /The Combat Strength of a revealed House card is added to its player's Combat Strength. Text Ability: /The House card's special ability that may affect the combat or some other asp", "headingPath": "H C B · 3. Choose and Reveal House Cards · The House Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Each House is provided a limited number of units, tokens, and cards. If a player is using all his components of a particular type, he may not bring additional components of that type into play. Units that are destroyed in combat (or removed from the board for any other reason) are available to be mu", "headingPath": "E C P", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Each player takes the player screen that represents his House. /The player screen provides reference information, setup information, and enables players to sort and store components (such as Order tokens) privately during the game. Order token reference Starting units information Starting position o", "headingPath": "T P S · T H W · H L 'Hear Me Roar'", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}, {"page": 26, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Garrisons are special tokens that provide extra defense to the home area of each House. Each House starts the game with a Garrison token on its home area. Garrisons are not units, so they do not count toward Supply limits and may never be assigned an order. If a home area containing a Garrison is at", "headingPath": "GArrisons", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "/The game board features three different Influence tracks: /The Iron /Throne track, the Fiefdoms track, and the King's Court track. /The player in the highest position on each track receives a specific Dominance token: /The Iron /Throne, the Valyrian Steel Blade, or the Messenger Raven. /The effects", "headingPath": "T I T D T · The Iron Throne Track · The Iron Throne Token · The Fiefdoms Track", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "/The Valyrian Steel Blade Token /The player holding the Valyrian Steel Blade token may, once per game round, use the token in combat to grant himself a +1 Combat Strength bonus. Whenever a player uses the Valyrian Steel Blade, he flips the token over to its faded side, indicating it has been used th", "headingPath": "The Valyrian Steel Blade T oken · The King's Court Track", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "If either the attacker or the defender holds the Valyrian Steel Blade token, that player now has the option of using its ability to provide +1 to his total Combat Strength. If used, flip the token to its faded side, as a reminder that it cannot be used again this round. Both sides now combine their ", "headingPath": "4. Use Valyrian Steel Blade · 5. Calculate Final Combat Strength · 6. Combat Resolution · 1. Determine Victor · 2. Casualties", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "Tyrell marches two units from King's Landing into the Kingswood. Since there are two Lannister footmen units in the Kingswood, combat ensues. Since there are no adjacent Support Orders, Lannister's initial combat strength is 2 (two Footmen) and Tyrell's is 3 (one Footman, one Knight). Tyrell's March", "headingPath": "C R E", "sharpsignalDocId": 373}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- []
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 373 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 373 boosted
- answered-before recall
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no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
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 12, 2026 23:53
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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | H C B · 3. Choose and Reveal House Cards · The House Cards | p.19 | 0.032787 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | E C P | p.4 | 0.032258 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | T P S · T H W · H L 'Hear Me Roar' | p.6 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | GArrisons | p.26 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | T I T D T · The Iron Throne Track · The Iron Throne Token · The Fiefdoms Track | p.11 | 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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | The Valyrian Steel Blade T oken · The King's Court Track | p.11 | 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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | 4. Use Valyrian Steel Blade · 5. Calculate Final Combat Strength · 6. Combat Resolution · 1. Determine Victor · 2. Casualties | p.20 | 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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | C R E | p.20 | 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 59 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 |
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| #1 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | The Valyrian Steel Blade T oken · The King's Court Track | p.11 | #6 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #2 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | 4. Use Valyrian Steel Blade · 5. Calculate Final Combat Strength · 6. Combat Resolution · 1. Determine Victor · 2. Casualties | p.20 | #7 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #3 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | combAT · U C S · 1. Call for Support | p.17 | #9 | 0.014493 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | GArrisons | p.26 | #4 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #5 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | Other ruleS fOr SuppOrt OrderS: · 2. Calculate Initial Combat Strength | p.18 | #24 | 0.011905 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | C R E | p.20 | #8 | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | E C P | p.4 | #2 | 0.032258 (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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373) | R R E · 4. Combat Clean Up | p.21 | #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 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
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generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 95 ms · first delta 3096 ms · total 3222 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 95 ms · ask 3125 ms · gateway work 3222 ms · total 3222 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4046
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 9
- tok/sec
- 152.5 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.059 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 44s 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
- ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
- abstain rationale
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I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped
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 301), 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.