Ruling — Concordia

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How do I play?

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**Setup**

1. Shuffle 30 city tokens and display them on the game board with alphabetical characters face up (excluding 'D' tokens for the Italia board).[1]

2. Randomly assign tokens to cities according to their characters and flip them so the goods type is visible.[1]

3. Identify the most valuable good for every province and assign a corresponding bonus marker to the top left corner of the game board (values: cloth 7, wine 6, tools 5, food 4, bricks 3).[1]

4. Arrange the 30 cards for sale by their Roman numeral on the back (I-V), removing cards with a numeral larger than the number of players.[1]

5. Sort and shuffle the remaining cards, forming a face down stack with I cards on top, followed by II, etc..[1]

6. Display the top 7 cards from the stack face up in the display area on the top right corner of the game board.[1]

7. Place the remaining stack and the CONCORDIA card near the game board.[1]

8. Randomly determine the start player; the player to the right of the start player receives the Praefectus Magnus.[2]

**Gameplay**

1. Players execute turns in clockwise order.[2]

2. A turn consists of playing 1 card from a player's hand and executing its related actions.[2]

3. A player may purchase up to two personality cards from the display by paying the required goods (the price is the sum of goods in the red field plus goods beneath the card's position on the board, where a question mark allows a choice).[3]

4. After a purchase, remaining cards in the display move left to fill empty positions and the display is replenished from the stack.[3]

5. A player may optionally purchase 1 new colonist by paying 1 food and 1 tool to the bank and placing a land or sea colonist from their storehouse into 'Roma'.[2]

6. All played cards form a personal discard pile, though only the last card played is shown.[2]

7. With the Tribune card, a player takes back all previously played cards into their hand; if they take more than 3 cards (including the Tribune), they pay 1 sestertius per card past the 3rd to the bank.[2]

**Game End and Scoring**

1. The game ends when a player purchases the last card from the display or builds their 15th house.[2][4]

2. The player who triggers the end is awarded the CONCORDIA card (worth 7 additional VP).[2][4]

3. All other players execute one final turn.[2][4]

4. Players tally final victory points by gathering all cards and arranging them according to the ancient gods associated with their personality cards.[5]

5. Scoring includes:

* The value of all goods in the storehouse plus cash money.[5]

* 1 VP per full 10 sestertii.[5]

* 1 VP for each house inside a non-brick city (max 15 VP).[5]

* 1 VP for each province with at least one of their houses (max 12 VP for Imperium, 11 VP for Italia).[5]

* 2 VP for each type of goods produced by their houses (max 10 VP).[5]

* 2 VP for each colonist on the game board (max 12 VP).[5]

6. The player with the most VP wins; ties are broken by the player owning the Praefectus Magnus, or the player who would receive it next in the course of the game.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Concordia — Setup Sheet · p.1 · 1 . Distribute city tokens · 2 . Assign bonus markers · 3 . Prepare the stack of cards

[2] RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook · p.1 · GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …

[3] RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook · p.3 · PERSONALITY CARDS · DiPloMAT · senATor · consul

[4] RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook · p.4 · GAME END

[5] RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook · p.4 · FINAL SCORING · VESTA · JUPITER · SATURNUS · MERCURIUS · MARS

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 66 ms · ask 7290 ms · total 51608 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 44251 ms · generation 7357 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 155 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 155 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 0.89628 of 2497 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 13:25

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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PRÆFECTUS MAGNUS · FURTHER RULES · STOREHOUSE · INTERMEDIATE SCORING	p.4	0.048916 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …	p.1	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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PERSONALITY CARDS · DiPloMAT · senATor · consul	p.3	0.045921 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	colonisT	p.2	0.045256 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	sPeciAlisTs	p.3	0.045072 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	FINAL SCORING · VESTA · JUPITER · SATURNUS · MERCURIUS · MARS	p.4	0.031498 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME END	p.4	0.03101 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. Build houses (after all movements) · PrefecT	p.2	0.030077 (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 11 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.

one thing that looks wrong and is not: a row a floor seated can carry a fused rank LARGER than the pool size above it. The floors draw from the whole fused list, not only from the passages the re-ranker scored — so a rank past the pool is a floor reaching down for something the re-ranker would never have seen, which is exactly what the floors are for.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Concordia — Setup Sheet (corpus doc 173)	1 . Distribute city tokens · 2 . Assign bonus markers · 3 . Prepare the stack of cards	p.1	#10	0.015873 (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	guaranteed a slot by the base-rulebook floor
#2	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …	p.1	#2	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PERSONALITY CARDS · DiPloMAT · senATor · consul	p.3	#3	0.045921 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME END	p.4	#7	0.03101 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	sPeciAlisTs	p.3	#5	0.045072 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	FINAL SCORING · VESTA · JUPITER · SATURNUS · MERCURIUS · MARS	p.4	#6	0.031498 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PRÆFECTUS MAGNUS · FURTHER RULES · STOREHOUSE · INTERMEDIATE SCORING	p.4	#1	0.048916 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	colonisT	p.2	#4	0.045256 (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 Concordia — Setup Sheet (corpus doc 173)	1 . Distribute city tokens · 2 . Assign bonus markers · 3 . Prepare the stack of cards	p.1	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …	p.1	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PERSONALITY CARDS · DiPloMAT · senATor · consul	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME END	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	FINAL SCORING · VESTA · JUPITER · SATURNUS · MERCURIUS · MARS	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 66 ms · first delta 1427 ms · total 51608 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 44251 ms · retrieval 66 ms · ask 7290 ms · gateway work 7357 ms · total 51608 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3822
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 812
tok/sec: 138.6 tok/sec — 812 output tokens in 5.858 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 54s 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 77), 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.