Ruling — Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two

← Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two

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How do I play?

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To play, follow these steps:

**Setup**

1. Choose a battlefield and place it on the table.[1]

2. Each player chooses a hero and takes their corresponding action cards, character card, hero miniature, sidekick tokens (if any), health dials, and any other hero components.[1]

3. Each player sets their hero's starting health on the matching health dials using the starting health found on the character cards.[1]

4. Each player shuffles their action cards to form a single deck, places it face down, and draws 5 cards as a starting hand.[1]

5. The younger player places their hero in the 1 space on the battlefield; if they have sidekicks, place them in separate spaces within the same zone as the hero.[1]

6. The older player places their hero in the 2 space on the battlefield and places any sidekicks based on the same rules.[1]

**Gameplay**

1. Players take turns in alternating order.[2] The younger player takes the first turn.[1]

2. On your turn, you must take 2 actions and cannot skip an action; you may choose two different actions or the same action twice.[3]

3. The possible actions are:

* **Maneuver**: First, you must draw the top card of your deck.[3] Then, you may move each of your fighters, one at a time, a number of spaces equal to or less than your move value.[3] You may boost movement by discarding 1 card from your hand and adding its BOOST value to your move value.[3][4] When moving, each space must be adjacent to the previous space; you may move through friendly fighters but cannot end in an occupied space, and you cannot move through opposing fighters.[3]

* **Scheme**: Choose a scheme card from your hand and play it face up on the table.[4] You must declare which of your fighters is playing the card (the active fighter).[4] Resolve the card's effect, then place it in your discard pile.[4]

* **Attack**: Declare which fighter is performing the attack (the active fighter).[4] You may not attack if you have no attack card in hand or no valid targets.[4] Any fighter can target a fighter in an adjacent space.[4] Fighters with melee attacks can only target adjacent fighters, while fighters with ranged attacks can target an adjacent fighter or any fighter in the same zone.[4] The attacker chooses an attack card from their hand and plays it face down; the defender may choose a defense card from their hand and play it face down.[4] Both players then reveal their cards at the same time.[4]

4. At the end of your turn, if you have more than 7 cards in your hand, you must discard down to 7 cards, placing them in your discard pile.[3]

5. After a player's turn, it is the opponent's turn.[3]

**Winning and Elimination**

1. To win, you must be the first to defeat your opponent's hero by reducing their health to zero.[5][6]

2. A player is eliminated when their hero is defeated; their sidekicks are immediately removed from the board.[2]

3. A player still takes turns as normal as long as they have a sidekick left; however, if all of a player's fighters are defeated, they are eliminated and take no more turns.[2]

4. In a multi-player game, the winner is the last player whose hero is not defeated.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook · p.4 · HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES

[2] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook · p.10 · BONUS ATTACKS

[3] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook · p.5 · YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)

[4] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook · p.6 · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL · …

[5] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook · p.3

[6] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook · p.3

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 94 ms · ask 5567 ms · total 5663 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5663 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 496 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 496 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 0.91032 of 2587 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 09:35

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. 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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL · …	p.6	0.046898 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	0.046871 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.3	0.046544 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.3	0.046402 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.6	0.045476 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	VERSATILE CARDS · STEP 3: RESOLVE COMBAT · WINNING THE COMBAT	p.7	0.044796 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	BONUS ATTACKS	p.10	0.044796 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	p.5	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

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 26 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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.3	#3	0.046544 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.3	#4	0.046402 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.6	#21	0.013699 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	p.5	#8	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	BONUS ATTACKS	p.9	#10	0.029206 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL · …	p.6	#1	0.046898 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	BONUS ATTACKS	p.10	#7	0.044796 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	#2	0.046871 (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 Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	BONUS ATTACKS	p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two — Rulebook (corpus doc 496)		p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 94 ms · first delta 1900 ms · total 5663 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 94 ms · ask 5567 ms · gateway work 5663 ms · total 5663 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3624
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 762
tok/sec: 204.8 tok/sec — 762 output tokens in 3.720 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 29s 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 427), 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.