Announce leaderless Basic battle plans

game/engine.ts

@@ -983,6 +983,8 @@ export type Battle = {
   attacker: string;
   defender: string;
   plans: Record<string, Plan>;
+  /** Basic declarations recorded only when a new leaderless plan is sealed. */
+  basicLeaderlessAnnouncements?: string[];
   revealed: boolean;
   traitorCalls: Record<string, boolean>;
   traitorDecisionPromises?: TraitorDecisionPromise[];
@@ -47147,8 +47149,10 @@ function applyActionInner(
       'Wait for the plan requested by special prescience.',
     );
     b.plans[id] = validatePlan(g, p, action);
-    if (g.advanced && b.plans[id].leader === null)
+    if (b.plans[id].leader === null) {
+      if (!g.advanced) (b.basicLeaderlessAnnouncements ??= []).push(id);
       log(g, `${p.name} announced a Battle Plan without a leader or Cheap Hero; no battle cards can be played.`);
+    }
     if (b.fullPlan?.target === id) {
       recordFullPlanInspection(g, b.fullPlan.owner);
     }
@@ -49029,7 +49033,7 @@ export function viewGame(state: Game, id: string, now?: number) {
           submitted: Object.keys(b.plans),
           leaderless: g.advanced
             ? Object.keys(b.plans).filter(playerId => b.plans[playerId].leader === null)
-            : [],
+            : (b.basicLeaderlessAnnouncements ?? []).filter(playerId => b.plans[playerId]?.leader === null),
           plans: b.revealed
             ? b.plans
             : b.plans[id]

game/reference.ts

@@ -2839,7 +2839,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
     summary: 'Build a legal combination and decide what to keep after winning.',
     steps: [
       'Choose one weapon, one defense, both, or neither. A worthless card can occupy a weapon or defense slot.',
-      'Choose an available leader or Cheap Hero when required. Without either, battle cards cannot be played. In Advanced, sealing a legal leaderless plan announces that fact to the whole table before reveal; its dial, spice and other choices remain sealed. Refresh retains the same announcement without submitting another plan.',
+      'Choose an available leader or Cheap Hero when required. Without either, battle cards cannot be played. In Basic and Advanced, sealing a legal leaderless plan announces that fact to the whole table before reveal; its dial, spice and other choices remain sealed. Refresh retains the same announcement without submitting another plan.',
       'On Arrakis, a surviving leader remains in its battle territory for the rest of the Battle phase. A later Lasgun–Shield explosion there also kills previously surviving leader discs still present, even if a different leader fights that later battle. The Basic application is provisional; a successful Traitor call prevents the explosion.',
       'A loser normally discards all played cards. If allied with Moritani and the battle has a winner, the defeated ally may retain one played card that a winner could keep. A winner may discard selected played cards; Cheap Heroes are discarded after use.',
     ],