Ruling — Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?

← Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?bg-62227-en-1e

To play, follow this sequence:

**Setup**

1. Set up markers, Troops, and Sleeper Cells as specified in the scenario.[1]

2. Arrange remaining Troops (tan cubes) and Cells (black cylinders) on the Troops and Funding tracks, filling five per box from right to left.[1]

3. Place three WMD Plot markers in each of the two WMD Plot holding boxes.[1]

4. Place the 'Card' marker on the Action Phase track at Jihadist Card 1.[1]

5. Set both Reserves to '0'.[1]

6. Place the numbered Plot markers face down in the Available Plots box.[1]

7. Set aside spare Regime Change, Aid/Besieged Regime, Cadre, Event, and 1st Plot markers.[1]

8. Remove any cards specified by the scenario, then shuffle the remainder to create a face-down Draw Deck.[1]

9. Deal players the number of cards indicated by the Troops and Funding tracks.[1]

10. Select a game length (Standard, Tournament Final, or Campaign) by placing the 'Deck' marker on the Reshuffle track at the designated number of deck-ends.[1]

**Turn Sequence**

1. Begin play with the Jihadist Action Phase.[1]

2. Play proceeds through a series of Turns comprising alternating Action Phases.[2]

3. In the first Action Phase, the Jihadist side plays two cards in succession from its hand.[2]

4. The US side then plays two cards in succession during its Action Phase.[2]

5. The Jihadists then play two cards, and the cycle continues.[2]

6. As each card is played, mark the play on the Action Phase track [1, 4.7.5].

7. Each played card must be used to carry out either its Event or its Operations.[2][3]

8. A side with no cards remaining during its Action Phase does nothing (though the Jihadist side may remove Cadres).[2]

9. During its Action Phase, the US side may discard or hold its last remaining card.[2]

10. At the end of each US Action Phase, resolve all Plots in any countries.[2]

11. A Turn ends and a new Turn begins when each side has expended its dealt cards, or when the Jihadists have expended their cards and the US player opts to hold a card.[2]

12. If the Jihadist side has expended its cards and the US side holds its final card, resolve any Plots and end the turn.[2]

13. At the end of each turn, drop Funding by one.[2]

14. Drop Prestige by one if any country is under Islamist Rule.[2]

15. If Net World Posture is '3' and the same as US Posture, add +1 Prestige.[2]

**Card Play Details**

* **Operations:** A side can play a card for its Operations value regardless of its Event or association.[4] The player selects an Operation type and uses the card's value to implement it.[4] A side may expend all its Reserves to add that value (1 or 2) to a card played for other Operations (not for Events), up to a maximum card value of '3' (except for US Reassessment).[5][4]

* **Events:** When playing a card for an Event, the Operations value is ignored, and the side implements the Event according to the card text.[6] If an Event text conflicts with game rules, the Event text governs.[6]

* **Triggering Events:** Playing a card for Operations that has an Event associated with the opposing side causes that Event to occur.[4] The side playing the card chooses whether the Event or the Operation(s) occurs first.[4] The first Jihadist card used for Plot Operations each turn does not trigger any US Event.[4]

* **Reserves:** Both sides may play 1- or 2-value cards for Reserves Operations, adding the card's value to their Reserves Track up to a maximum of '2'.[4] Unexpended Reserves are lost at the end of the turn.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook · p.2 · 3.2 SET UP · 3.3 SELECT LENGTH OF PLAY

[2] RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook · p.7 · 5.2 TURNS

[3] RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook · p.7 · 5.3 DRAW AND DISCARD PILES · 6.1 IN GENERAL

[4] RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook · p.8 · 6.3 PLAYING CARDS FOR OPERATIONS

[5] RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook · p.8 · 6.3 PLAYING CARDS FOR OPERATIONS

[6] RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook · p.7 · 6.2 PLAYING CARDS AS EVENTS

The table has its answer — dice up.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 199 ms · ask 8321 ms · total 8522 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8522 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 594 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 594 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 0.88904 of 2866 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 24, 2026 07:03 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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	6.3 PLAYING CARDS FOR OPERATIONS	p.8	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
#2	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	5.2 TURNS	p.7	0.048412 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	3.2 SET UP · 3.3 SELECT LENGTH OF PLAY	p.2	0.046642 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	PRESTIGE · GOVERNANCE AND AID · MARKER · STOP!! · 9.0 JIHADIST ACTIVITIES (1-PLAYER) · 9.1 HOW TO WIN · …	p.12	0.045002 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	4.7 TRACKS AND BOXES	p.4	0.043015 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	1.0 INTRODUCTION · 2.1 THREE WAYS TO WIN · 2.1.1 US Victory	p.2	0.042351 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	5.3 DRAW AND DISCARD PILES · 6.1 IN GENERAL	p.7	0.040648 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	4.9 TABLES	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

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 57 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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	5.2 TURNS	p.7	#2	0.048412 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	6.3 PLAYING CARDS FOR OPERATIONS	p.8	#11	0.028191 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	4.7 TRACKS AND BOXES	p.5	#10	0.029418 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	5.3 DRAW AND DISCARD PILES · 6.1 IN GENERAL	p.7	#7	0.040648 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	OPTIONAL · 9.3 OPERATIONS · 9.4 JIHADIST CARD PLAY	p.12	#12	0.028039 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	3.2 SET UP · 3.3 SELECT LENGTH OF PLAY	p.2	#3	0.046642 (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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	6.2 PLAYING CARDS AS EVENTS	p.7	#9	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
#8	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	6.3 PLAYING CARDS FOR OPERATIONS	p.8	#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))	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 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	3.2 SET UP · 3.3 SELECT LENGTH OF PLAY	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	5.2 TURNS	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	5.3 DRAW AND DISCARD PILES · 6.1 IN GENERAL	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	6.3 PLAYING CARDS FOR OPERATIONS	p.8	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	6.3 PLAYING CARDS FOR OPERATIONS	p.8	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? — Rulebook (corpus doc 594)	6.2 PLAYING CARDS AS EVENTS	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 199 ms · first delta 3990 ms · total 8522 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 199 ms · ask 8321 ms · gateway work 8522 ms · total 8522 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3433
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 900
tok/sec: 201.2 tok/sec — 900 output tokens in 4.473 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 17s 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 5s 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 526), 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.