Ruling — 1812: The Invasion of Canada

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Asked with: 1812: The Invasion of Canadabg-94246-en-1e

To play the game, follow these steps:

**Setup**

1. Place the map in the center of the table with American side players on the south edge and British side players on the north.[1]

2. Each player chooses a faction and takes the corresponding units, Battle Dice, and cards of that faction's color.[2]

3. Populate the map areas with the corresponding colored units.[1]

4. Place additional units as required by the specific scenario.[1]

5. Place the Round Marker Pawn on space 1 of the round track on the bottom left of the map.[3][1]

6. Place all Turn Order Markers in the Draw Bag.[3][1]

7. Shuffle each faction's deck and draw a hand of three cards.[1]

**Turn Sequence**

The turn order is determined randomly by drawing a Turn Order Marker from the Draw Bag.[4] The Active Player performs the following phases in order:[4]

1. **Enlistments Phase**: The Active Player pulls Enlistment Units from his Unit Force Pool and places them in his faction's Muster Area(s).[5] If enemy units occupy a Muster Area, no units may be placed there, and the Active Player loses that turn's Enlistments and Fled Units stay in the Fled Unit Space.[5] Additionally, any of the Active Player's units located in the Fled Unit Space re-enter play by being placed in the Active Player's Muster Area(s).[5]

2. **Movement Phase**: The Active Player must play one (and only one) Movement Card.[5] Units may be moved by land or water depending on the card.[5] The Active Player may also play any Event Cards in his hand if allowed by the card.[5]

3. **Battle Phase**: (No specific steps provided for this phase).[4]

4. **Draw Cards Phase**: (No specific steps provided for this phase).[4]

**Ending the Game**

1. The round ends once all Turn Order Markers have been drawn and all factions have had their turn.[4]

2. All Turn Order Markers are returned to the Draw Bag and the Round Marker Pawn is advanced to the next round space.[4]

3. At the end of round 3 and at the end of each subsequent round, the end of game condition must be checked.[4]

4. The side controlling the most enemy Objectives at the end of the game wins.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook · p.2 · British Side:

[2] RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook · p.2 · Game Components · American Side:

[3] RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook · p.2 · British Side:

[4] RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook · p.2 · Game Play

[5] RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook · p.3 · Game Play

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 408 ms · ask 4973 ms · total 5387 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5387 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1254 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1254 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 0.89677 of 1734 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 27, 2026 02:47 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.

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#4	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.4	0.04526 (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
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#8	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	British Side:	p.2	0.042671 (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 38 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.

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#1	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	British Side:	p.2	#8	0.042671 (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 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.3	#6	0.045055 (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 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Components · American Side:	p.2	#16	0.027273 (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 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.3	#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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	British Side:	p.2	#13	0.027783 (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 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.2	#2	0.046676 (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 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.5	#7	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
#8	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.3	#1	0.046964 (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 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	British Side:	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Components · American Side:	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	British Side:	p.2	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.2	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK 1812: The Invasion of Canada — Rulebook (corpus doc 1254)	Game Play	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 408 ms · first delta 2668 ms · total 5387 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 408 ms · ask 4973 ms · gateway work 5387 ms · total 5387 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3281
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 527
tok/sec: 198.2 tok/sec — 527 output tokens in 2.659 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 56s 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 1184), 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.