Ruling — Feudum

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The objective of Feudum is to score the most veneration points (vp) over 5 epochs, which typically consist of 7-10 rounds.[1] The game ends when one region tile stack is empty.[1]

**Round Sequence**

1. All players secretly select 4 out of their 11 action cards.[1][2] When making selections, a player must announce, "Long live the king".[2]

2. During card selection, a player may play a saltpeter to gain an extra action card or a sulfur to gain a sequential action (playing 2 cards back to back).[2]

3. The starting player plays 1 card face up and carries out the action.[2]

4. Play continues clockwise, one card at a time, until all players have played all of their chosen cards.[2]

**Steps within a Round**

1. **Take Actions**: Players execute their selected action cards one at a time.[1] Players may perform the regular action on the card, or use a special ability if they have the required pawn or good in play.[2]

2. **Nourish Pawns**: All players must sustain pawns on the board with food and/or wine.[1]

3. **Roll Progress Die**: Roll the progress die to determine a region tile to remove.[1]

**Actions and Mechanics**

* **Movement**: A player's movement allowance is equal to the number of pawns on the board.[3] You may move 1 space times the number of your pawns on board.[4] At the end of a Move Action, you may pilfer 1 resource from a location if one of your moved pawns is beside it, provided you do not pilfer from a farm you rule or a landscape your serf is tending.[4][3]

* **Migration**: You may migrate a pawn onto the board by turning in food.[3]

* **Improve/Tend Landscape**: If you rule a location, you may turn in required resources to improve it.[4] In the advanced game, you may turn in wood to place a landscape with a serf.[4][5]

* **Harvest**: If you rule a farm, you may play the Harvest Action to randomly draw 5 goods from the haversack to place beside a farm and score 1 vp.[6]

* **Explore**: If you rule an outpost, you may draw 2 Royal Writ cards and keep 1.[4][5]

* **Tax**: If you rule a town, you may play the Tax Action to collect 2 shillings, adding 1 shilling for each additional town or feudum ruled.[6]

* **Guilds and Trading**: Players can trade with guilds to get resources; however, only guild members may move goods from guild to guild for immediate vp.[1]

* **Defense**: If an opponent attacks your pawn or feudum and you preselected the Defend Action, you may flip the card out of turn to add +1 to defense and score 1 vp.[7]

[1] RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook · p.6 · playing The game · playing a round · Step 1: Take Actions · Step 2: Nourish Pawns · Step 3: Roll Progress Die

[2] RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook · p.7 · sTep 1: Take acTions · Regular Action · Extra or Sequential Action · Long Live the King · Card Symbols

[3] RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook · p.8 · eleven acTion cards · 1. Migrate Action · The Six Pawn Characters · 2. Move Action · Pilfer Resources · Vessels & Vessel Routes · …

[4] RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook · p.2

[5] RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook · p.11 · 'Tend Landscape' (Advanced Game) · 5. Explore Action · Royal Writs

[6] RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook · p.12 · 6. Harvest Action · Favors · Rosary Beads · 7. Tax Action

[7] RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook · p.14 · 9. Defend Action · 'Royal Immunity' (Advanced Game) · 10. Repeat Action · 'Déjà vu' (Advanced Game)

Rule found, game on.

🔧 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 80 ms · ask 5539 ms · total 17072 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 11450 ms · generation 5622 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 780 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 780 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 0.88342 of 2033 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 24, 2026 16:35 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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	sTep 1: Take acTions · Regular Action · Extra or Sequential Action · Long Live the King · Card Symbols	p.7	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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)		p.2	0.047938 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	playing The game · playing a round · Step 1: Take Actions · Step 2: Nourish Pawns · Step 3: Roll Progress Die	p.6	0.046671 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	9. Defend Action · 'Royal Immunity' (Advanced Game) · 10. Repeat Action · 'Déjà vu' (Advanced Game)	p.14	0.045724 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	seTup	p.5	0.045536 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	eleven acTion cards · 1. Migrate Action · The Six Pawn Characters · 2. Move Action · Pilfer Resources · Vessels & Vessel Routes · …	p.8	0.043496 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	seTup	p.4	0.042649 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	Step 4: Advance Epoch Marker & Score Epoch · Step 5: End Round or End Game & Final Scoring	p.6	0.030769 (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 40 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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	playing The game · playing a round · Step 1: Take Actions · Step 2: Nourish Pawns · Step 3: Roll Progress Die	p.6	#3	0.046671 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)		p.2	#2	0.047938 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	6. Harvest Action · Favors · Rosary Beads · 7. Tax Action	p.12	#12	0.027673 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	'Tend Landscape' (Advanced Game) · 5. Explore Action · Royal Writs	p.11	#9	0.02879 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	eleven acTion cards · 1. Migrate Action · The Six Pawn Characters · 2. Move Action · Pilfer Resources · Vessels & Vessel Routes · …	p.8	#6	0.043496 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	royal wriTs · Charters (play at game end)	p.24	#10	0.028006 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	9. Defend Action · 'Royal Immunity' (Advanced Game) · 10. Repeat Action · 'Déjà vu' (Advanced Game)	p.14	#4	0.045724 (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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	sTep 1: Take acTions · Regular Action · Extra or Sequential Action · Long Live the King · Card Symbols	p.7	#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 Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	playing The game · playing a round · Step 1: Take Actions · Step 2: Nourish Pawns · Step 3: Roll Progress Die	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	sTep 1: Take acTions · Regular Action · Extra or Sequential Action · Long Live the King · Card Symbols	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	eleven acTion cards · 1. Migrate Action · The Six Pawn Characters · 2. Move Action · Pilfer Resources · Vessels & Vessel Routes · …	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	'Tend Landscape' (Advanced Game) · 5. Explore Action · Royal Writs	p.11	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	6. Harvest Action · Favors · Rosary Beads · 7. Tax Action	p.12	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Feudum — Rulebook (corpus doc 780)	9. Defend Action · 'Royal Immunity' (Advanced Game) · 10. Repeat Action · 'Déjà vu' (Advanced Game)	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 80 ms · first delta 2311 ms · total 17072 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 11450 ms · retrieval 80 ms · ask 5539 ms · gateway work 5622 ms · total 17072 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3811
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 655
tok/sec: 201.2 tok/sec — 655 output tokens in 3.256 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 22s 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 0s 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 715), 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.