Ruling — Undaunted: Stalingrad

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Undaunted: Stalingradbg-354570-en-1e

Play takes the form of a series of rounds.[1] Each round consists of three phases:

1. DRAW CARDS: Both players draw four cards from their deck to form a hand.[1] Whenever you need to draw a card but your deck is empty, shuffle your discard pile into a deck; never shuffle cards in your play area into a deck.[1]

2. DETERMINE INITIATIVE: Both players secretly select one card from their hand and reveal it simultaneously.[1] The player who selected the card with the highest initiative takes the initiative marker, flipping it to show their faction's icon; the player with the marker performs actions first during that round.[1] In the case of a tie, the player who already has the initiative marker keeps it.[1] Both players discard their chosen card.[1]

3. PLAYER TURNS: The player with the initiative plays cards from their hand, one at a time, into a play area in front of them.[1] A turn ends once the player has no more cards in their hand that they can (or wish to) play.[1] All cards left in the player's hand and all cards in the play area are moved into that player's discard pile.[1] The player without the initiative then takes their turn in the same way.[1]

When playing a card, you may use it to do one of the following:

* Card action: Choose one of the actions listed on the card and perform it in full.[1]

* Ready: If the unit associated with the card is suppressed, flip it to its ready side.[1]

* Hunker down: Return the card to your supply.[1]

You cannot save cards in your hand for future rounds.[1]

The game ends when one of the following occurs:

* A player achieves their primary objective.[2]

* A player inflicts a Full Rout (routing all of the opponent's Riflemen).[2]

* A player Withdraws (at the start of their turn, a player may choose to Withdraw, but this results in an immediate win for the opponent).[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook · p.12 · HOW TO PLAY · DRAW CARDS · DETERMINE INITIATIVE · PLAYER TURNS

[2] RULEBOOK Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook · p.17 · EXAMPLE TURN · PRIMARY OBJECTIVES · Control Objective Points · STOP READING! · FULL ROUT · WITHDRAW

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 93 ms · ask 6635 ms · total 11575 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 4843 ms · generation 6732 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "HOW TO PLAY · DRAW CARDS · DETERMINE INITIATIVE · PLAYER TURNS", "sharpsignalDocId": 702}, {"page": 17, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EXAMPLE TURN · PRIMARY OBJECTIVES · Control Objective Points · STOP READING! · FULL ROUT · WITHDRAW", "sharpsignalDocId": 702}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 702 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 702 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 0.92420 of 1504 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 24, 2026 08:26 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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	HOW TO PLAY · DRAW CARDS · DETERMINE INITIATIVE · PLAYER TURNS	p.12	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	EXAMPLE TURN · PRIMARY OBJECTIVES · Control Objective Points · STOP READING! · FULL ROUT · WITHDRAW	p.17	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
#3	RULEBOOK Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	CAMPAIGN SETUP · UNLOCKING AND REPLACING CARDS	p.22	0.045743 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	Move · Bolster X A · Conceal · Control · Inspire X A	p.14	0.045695 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)		p.26	0.044904 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	CAMPAIGN STEP · 1. VICTORY PHASE · GAME STATE EXAMPLE	p.18	0.044557 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)		p.30	0.04329 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	If you have never played Undaunted before · If you have played Undaunted before · SCALE · ACTIONS · ROUTING · SPAWNING · …	p.3	0.029828 (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 47 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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	HOW TO PLAY · DRAW CARDS · DETERMINE INITIATIVE · PLAYER TURNS	p.12	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	ASSEMBLY AND STORAGE GUIDE · Cards · USING CARD SLEEVES · Tiles	p.4	#16	0.026519 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)		p.27	#10	0.029644 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	EXAMPLE TURN	p.16	#13	0.028175 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	SCENARIO 1 SETUP	p.10	#17	0.026334 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	EXAMPLE TURN · PRIMARY OBJECTIVES · Control Objective Points · STOP READING! · FULL ROUT · WITHDRAW	p.17	#2	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	If you have never played Undaunted before · If you have played Undaunted before · SCALE · ACTIONS · ROUTING · SPAWNING · …	p.3	#8	0.029828 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)		p.26	#5	0.044904 (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 Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	HOW TO PLAY · DRAW CARDS · DETERMINE INITIATIVE · PLAYER TURNS	p.12	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Undaunted: Stalingrad — Rulebook (corpus doc 702)	EXAMPLE TURN · PRIMARY OBJECTIVES · Control Objective Points · STOP READING! · FULL ROUT · WITHDRAW	p.17	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 93 ms · first delta 3199 ms · total 11575 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 4843 ms · retrieval 93 ms · ask 6635 ms · gateway work 6732 ms · total 11575 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3858
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 449
tok/sec: 130.7 tok/sec — 449 output tokens in 3.435 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 18s 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 6s 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 635), 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.