Connect provisional late-paid Recruits accounting

game/engine.ts

@@ -12455,8 +12455,6 @@ function recruitsPlayBlock(g: Game, owner: Player, card: Card): string | null {
       return 'Normal force revival history is inconsistent; Recruits cannot safely reprice it.';
     if (player.revived > 0 && player.freeForcesRevived === undefined)
       return 'Earlier normal force revival history is incomplete; Recruits cannot safely reprice it.';
-    if (player.revived > (player.freeForcesRevived ?? 0))
-      return 'Recruits after a paid normal force revival awaits a rules ruling.';
   }
   return null;
 }

game/reference.ts

@@ -4762,15 +4762,15 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'The separate three-card variant includes Recruits, Reinforcements and Harass & Withdraw. It does not require the Ecaz faction. A development preview includes all three physical cards before setup; Recruits, bounded Reinforcements and Harass & Withdraw controls are connected.',
       'The holder may play Recruits from its Revival panel. Discard the card once, then all players use the increased rates while this Revival phase remains open, including players who had already marked themselves ready. Completed returns still count toward their turn totals.',
       'Atreides rises from two free forces to four; Fremen from three to six; Guild from one to two. The ordinary force limit becomes seven. Native unlimited CHOAM and Tleilaxu allowances remain unlimited, and their free rates become zero and four. Paid prices and separate elite limits still apply.',
-      'Free-revival prevention still prevents free returns. A Fremen ally grant completed before Recruits doubles from three to six. A later grant, play after a paid ordinary return, unresolved transactions and a second use in the same turn remain guarded pending their rules decisions.',
+      'Free prevention still prevents free returns. Prior paid ordinary returns now have a visibly provisional policy: preserve payment, deduct only recorded free returns from the doubled free allowance and all returns from the total cap. Two free plus one paid Atreides may take two more free without refund; this is not a numerical user ruling. Missing/inconsistent ledgers, later Fremen grants, pending transactions and same-turn replay remain guarded.',
       'The preview supports Basic or Advanced classic-faction games without additional optional modules. Public activation and complete combined-game acceptance remain unfinished.',
     ],
     related: ['revival', 'ecaz-modules', 'expansion-faction-games', 'implementation-checklist'],
     checklist: [
-      { area: 'Implementation', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Genuine independent three-card setup, physical Recruits play/discard, public turn effect, shared revival quotes, preserved use and guarded timing are connected. Harass and Reinforcements have separate bounded battle prototypes; complete variant interactions remain gated.', evidence: ['game/ecaz-cards.ts', 'game/recruits.ts', 'game/revival.ts', 'game/engine.ts'] },
+      { area: 'Implementation', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Genuine independent three-card setup, physical Recruits play/discard, public turn effect and shared revival quotes are connected. Recorded late-paid activation uses a provisional no-refund/free-use policy; unknown ledgers and other timing guards remain. Harass/Reinforcements have separate bounded battle prototypes; complete variant interactions remain gated.', evidence: ['game/ecaz-cards.ts', 'game/recruits.ts', 'game/revival.ts', 'game/engine.ts'] },
       { area: 'Player controls', status: 'Implemented', detail: 'The owned physical card has full inspection, a Revival action and explicit unavailable reasons. All seats see the effective public rates after play.', evidence: ['components/recruits.tsx', 'components/game-table.tsx', 'game/card-presentation.ts'] },
       { area: 'AI', status: 'Partial', detail: 'All four profiles use the same legal owned offer for useful own or allied revival, then existing authoritative revival choices. Complete card strategy and calibration remain unfinished.', evidence: ['game/bots.ts'] },
-      { area: 'Documentation', status: 'Implemented', detail: 'The card guide records examples, current prototype limits and the independent-cap inference; late-paid and late-rate questions remain explicit.', evidence: ['docs/RECRUITS_RULES.md', 'docs/RECRUITS_RUNTIME.md'] },
+      { area: 'Documentation', status: 'Implemented', detail: 'The guide records examples, limits, independent-cap inference and the visibly provisional late-paid policy; source alternatives and late-rate questions remain explicit.', evidence: ['docs/RECRUITS_RULES.md', 'docs/RECRUITS_RUNTIME.md'] },
       { area: 'Verification', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Focused rules, controls, AI and authenticated recovery checks cover the bounded preview. Sample and browser evidence is recorded separately; full variant acceptance remains open.', evidence: ['tests/recruits.test.ts', 'tests/recruits-engine.test.ts', 'tests/recruits-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/recruits-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/prototype-room.test.ts'] },
     ],
   },