Ruling — Risk Legacy

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### Setup

1. Customize the Factions by choosing a starting power for each and applying the sticker to the green space on the Faction card.[1][2]

2. Destroy any remaining power cards.[1][2]

3. Customize the Resource Deck by applying up to 12 additional Coin stickers to Territory cards, ensuring no territory exceeds 3 resources before the first game.[3][2]

4. Shuffle the territory deck and place the draw pile face down.[1]

5. Place the coin cards face up.[1]

6. Turn over the top four territory cards and place them face up.[1]

7. Place red stars to the side.[1]

8. Shuffle available Scar cards and randomly deal one to each player; if there are not enough cards, no one receives one.[2]

9. Determine the first player by rolling dice; the highest roll chooses a faction first.[1]

10. Players choose factions and take the corresponding troops and HQ.[1]

11. The player who chose first takes the first turn, and selection proceeds clockwise.[1]

1 and 2. Players start with either a Red Star token (if they have not won a game previously) or one or more Missile tokens (if they have signed the victor's section).[3][2]

12. Place the chosen faction's 8 starting troops and HQ in a legal starting territory.[1]

13. Players write their name and starting territory on the back of their faction cards.[4]

### Turn Overview

Each player takes their turn using the following steps, in order:

1. Join the War or Recruit Troops.[5]

* At the start of your turn, you may turn in four Resource cards to buy one Red Star token.[5]

* If you do not control a territory (e.g., all troops were knocked out since your last turn), you must Join the War.[6]

* If you control at least one territory, you must Recruit Troops.[6]

* To Join the War, take half of your starting troops and place them in a legal starting territory.[6]

* To Recruit Troops, calculate the sum of your territories controlled and your population, then divide by 3 (round down, but no lower than 3).[6][7] Add troops gained from turning in cards.[6]

* After recruiting, place all troops into territories you control, either in one territory or spread across many.[8]

* You may also recruit troops by turning in 2 to 10 Resource icons from cards.[7]

2. Expand & Attack (optional).[5]

3. Maneuver Troops (optional).[5]

4. End of Turn.[5]

### Scoring and Winning

1. The game continues clockwise until a player reaches the objective.[5]

2. You win immediately if you are the first player to have 4 Red Stars or if you eliminate all other players.[3][5]

[1] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.4

[2] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.4

[3] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.4 · OBJECT OF THE GAME: · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GAME: · Customize the Factions · Customize the Resource Deck · PLAYER SET UP

[4] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.4 · BEFORE THE FIRST TURN

[5] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.5 · GOAL · TURN OVERVIEW · A NOTE ON TIMING: · START OF TURN 1 · TURNING IN CARDS FOR A RED STAR

[6] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.5 · PLAYING A SCAR CARD · JOIN THE WAR or RECRUIT TROOPS 2 · JOIN THE WAR · RECRUIT TROOPS

[7] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.5 · TERRITORIES AND POPULATION (cities) · CONTINENT BONUS(ES) · TURNING IN CARDS FOR TROOPS

[8] RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook · p.5 · PLACING TROOPS ON THE BOARD

The sage rests. The game continues.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 743 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 0.88636 of 2068 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 17:00 UTC

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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	PLAYING A SCAR CARD · JOIN THE WAR or RECRUIT TROOPS 2 · JOIN THE WAR · RECRUIT TROOPS	p.5	0.047619 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	GOAL · TURN OVERVIEW · A NOTE ON TIMING: · START OF TURN 1 · TURNING IN CARDS FOR A RED STAR	p.5	0.047183 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	Opening New P ackages · PACK 1: Open when the 9th Minor City is founded. · PACK 2: Open when a player is eliminated. · PACK 3: Open when a person gets to sign the board for the second time. · POCKET 1: Open as soon as 3 Missiles are used during the same combat roll. · POCKET 2: Open when a person is about to place 30+ troops on the board and has at least one Missile.	p.8	0.04598 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	OBJECT OF THE GAME: · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GAME: · Customize the Factions · Customize the Resource Deck · PLAYER SET UP	p.4	0.045607 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)		p.4	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
#6	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	DRAWING A CARD · WHEN THE DECK OF COIN CARDS RUNS OUT · OTHER TYPES OF CARDS OR MARKS	p.7	0.044658 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	PLACING TROOPS ON THE BOARD	p.5	0.044388 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	GAMEBOARD · FACTION CARDS · PLASTIC PIECES · SIDEBOARD · DICE · RED STARS	p.3	0.044237 (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 27 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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	PLAYING A SCAR CARD · JOIN THE WAR or RECRUIT TROOPS 2 · JOIN THE WAR · RECRUIT TROOPS	p.5	#1	0.047619 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	PLACING TROOPS ON THE BOARD	p.5	#7	0.044388 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	TERRITORIES AND POPULATION (cities) · CONTINENT BONUS(ES) · TURNING IN CARDS FOR TROOPS	p.5	#15	0.027444 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	BEFORE THE FIRST TURN	p.4	#20	0.025316 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)		p.4	#16	0.026585 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	OBJECT OF THE GAME: · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GAME: · Customize the Factions · Customize the Resource Deck · PLAYER SET UP	p.4	#4	0.045607 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	GOAL · TURN OVERVIEW · A NOTE ON TIMING: · START OF TURN 1 · TURNING IN CARDS FOR A RED STAR	p.5	#2	0.047183 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)		p.4	#10	0.028405 (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 Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	OBJECT OF THE GAME: · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GAME: · Customize the Factions · Customize the Resource Deck · PLAYER SET UP	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	BEFORE THE FIRST TURN	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	GOAL · TURN OVERVIEW · A NOTE ON TIMING: · START OF TURN 1 · TURNING IN CARDS FOR A RED STAR	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	PLAYING A SCAR CARD · JOIN THE WAR or RECRUIT TROOPS 2 · JOIN THE WAR · RECRUIT TROOPS	p.5	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	TERRITORIES AND POPULATION (cities) · CONTINENT BONUS(ES) · TURNING IN CARDS FOR TROOPS	p.5	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK Risk Legacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 743)	PLACING TROOPS ON THE BOARD	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 86 ms · first delta 2707 ms · total 12589 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 4891 ms · retrieval 86 ms · ask 7610 ms · gateway work 7698 ms · total 12589 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3631
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 644
tok/sec: 130.5 tok/sec — 644 output tokens in 4.934 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 33s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, checked 1s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 677), 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.