Ruling — Mage Knight Board Game

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A Regular turn consists of two voluntary parts in this order: movement and a single action.[1][2]

1. Movement: You may (but do not have to) move your figure space by space, spending Move points according to the type of terrain you are moving into.[3][2] During movement, you can reveal new map tiles.[3][2] You may play any amount of movement effects, use movement Skills, or activate Units with movement abilities.[3] Any card (except for a Wound) can be played sideways to a movement column as Move 1.[3] All movement must be completed before taking any action.[3]

2. Action: After movement, you may perform an action, such as combat.[3] During the Ranged and Siege Attack Phase, you may perform one or more attacks, or pass and do nothing.[4] To perform an attack, choose one or more enemy tokens as the target; you may play Ranged Attacks, Siege Attacks, or use Skills/Units to achieve this.[4] If enemies are fortified, only Siege Attacks can be played.[4] An attack is successful if the total Attack value equals or exceeds the total Armor values of all targeted enemies.[4]

3. End of Turn: You must end your turn on a safe space; if you are not on a safe space, you must backtrack until you arrive at one, adding a Wound to your hand for each space moved while backtracking.[5] To clear your play area, reroll and return any used mana dice to the Source, return all used or unused mana crystals from your play area to the bank, and put all played cards into your discard pile (except those thrown away).[5] Level ups are done at the end of the turn.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.6 · ~ A Player's Turn ~

[2] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.6 · ~ A Player's Turn ~

[3] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.7 · ~ A Player's Turn ~

[4] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.9 · RANGED AND SIEGE ATTACK PHASE

[5] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.11 · ~ End of the Turn ~ · 3. Clear up your play Area:

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 91 ms · ask 6462 ms · total 6556 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6556 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 260 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 260 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 0.92062 of 1285 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 13:36

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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	GAME · ONE ROUND · Players choose Tactics · ONE TURN · Resting: no movement, no action. · Any turn: · …	p.23	0.047643 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.7	0.045335 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	RULEBOOK	p.1	0.044103 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	0.041615 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	USING SKILLS	p.5	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
#7	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	Skills in a Solo Game · The Greatest Adventurer · The Greatest Beating	p.15	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
#8	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	0.030415 (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 80 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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ End of the Turn ~ · 3. Clear up your play Area:	p.11	#25	0.023001 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	Variants · Team Game · Scoring · Other Solo Missions	p.19	#43	0.01996 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.7	#2	0.045335 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	RANGED AND SIEGE ATTACK PHASE	p.9	#18	0.024594 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ Basic Game Concepts ~	p.4	#10	0.028021 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	#3	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
#7	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	Variants · Team Variant	p.22	#15	0.026857 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	#8	0.030415 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	RANGED AND SIEGE ATTACK PHASE	p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ End of the Turn ~ · 3. Clear up your play Area:	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 91 ms · first delta 3832 ms · total 6556 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 91 ms · ask 6462 ms · gateway work 6556 ms · total 6556 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3749
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 368
tok/sec: 137.1 tok/sec — 368 output tokens in 2.684 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 37s 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 189), 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.