Prototype Moritani Assassinate Leaders with saved Mentat replacement

Connect a qualifying native Advanced Moritani battle loss to private reveal/continue controls, live or already-dead opposing-faction targets, printed-strength bank bounty, and automatic Mentat replacement. Keep the revealed physical card held until Mentat, then set it aside as a public per-faction use marker and draw one private card. All four AI profiles use the owner-only legal quote. New local preview profile supports genuine setup without opening public starts.

Keep unresolved normal traitor-call duration and uniform private no-choice UX explicit. Record normal calls and guard later use without claiming a settled permanent loss. Exclude exceptional captured/foreign leader custody, other expansion factions and combined optional modules from this bounded preview. No mode or publication gate opens.

Independent source/privacy/persistence review and 32 focused cases pass. Battle obligations independently bind cleanup, sealed normal-call logs wait for public revelation, physical replacement custody rejects missing cards and forged same-turn chains, and invalid actions remain immutable. Five authenticated SQLite cases cover pending/resolved restoration, Truthtrance interruption, competing submissions, stale/duplicate actions and corrupt saves. The local writer preserves seats and unrelated rooms.

Validation: types, lint, 4690 offline tests, production build and 43 HTTP tests passed with unchanged source. Two genuine Advanced four-profile games finish in 296 and 101 actions with zero rejected candidates, ten periodic JSON rounds and eight restored final seat views. All physical cards, forces and elites remain conserved. Two observed assassination opportunities are declined; these complete games do not establish natural reveal/replacement use.

The separate browser exercise explicitly stages conserved battle forces and one physical traitor swap after genuine setup. Actual battle actions open the choice. Master Bewt dies once and pays three spice; the card remains held through cleanup and is automatically replaced at Mentat with a public set-aside marker. Pending and resolved refresh, readable context-correct inspectors, physical custody and private projection pass. Guild independently collects two spice from Arrakeen. The saved QA game remains at human Terror placement.

After the reported outage, all 801 opening games and original seat/recovery records are preserved (835 after HTTP checks). All 802 rooms and original records immediately before verification also remain unchanged. Database integrity and foreign keys pass. The healthy server was reused without restart, reset or recurring automation.

Verified source tree: ad64f6775fb4c481002cc5eccf6d31e490085d11e10b7b19fb7df4947bcf0ccd

game/reference.ts

@@ -2558,17 +2558,25 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
     id: 'moritani-assassinate-leaders',
     title: 'Moritani: advanced Assassinate Leaders',
     category: 'Advanced & expansions',
-    coverage: 'Planned',
+    coverage: 'Partial',
+    developmentStage: 'Prototyped',
     summary:
-      'A battle-loss advantage using a different Traitor Card, separate from Terror Assassination.',
+      'An opted-in Advanced Moritani preview reveals a different opposing-faction Traitor Card after a loss and replaces it during Mentat Pause.',
     steps: [
       'After you lose a battle, this advanced advantage is available only if the opposing leader disc survived and no Traitor was called.',
       'You may reveal a Traitor Card for that opposing faction, but it must name a different leader from the one you just fought. If that named leader is not in the Tanks, kill it and collect spice for its value.',
-      'During Mentat Pause, set the revealed card aside face up as a marker and draw a new Traitor Card. You can use this advantage only once against each faction in the game.',
-      'You may instead reveal a traitor normally in battle, but doing so loses this advanced advantage. The cancellation table gives Karama no effect against Assassinate Leaders.',
+      'An already-dead named leader remains a legal reveal, awarding no death or spice. During Mentat Pause, set the revealed card aside face up as a marker and draw a new Traitor Card. You can use this advantage only once against each faction in the game.',
+      'The printed rule says a normal traitor reveal loses this advantage, but its duration remains unresolved. The preview guards further assassination after a normal call. Karama has no effect against Assassinate Leaders.',
       'If Harkonnen has captured your own leader and you hold its Traitor Card, you may call that traitor normally; you may not use Assassinate Leaders on that basis.',
       'Terror Assassination chooses a random leader when its token is triggered. It does not use this battle-loss condition, different-leader Traitor Card or once-per-faction allowance. Advanced starts and Moritani starts remain unavailable.',
     ],
+    checklist: [
+      {area:'Implementation',status:'Partial',detail:'Explicit Advanced Moritani/base-opponent preview before any normal traitor call; native disc deaths, printed bounty, dead-target zero bounty and exact Mentat replacement.',evidence:['game/moritani-assassinate.ts','game/engine.ts']},
+      {area:'Player controls',status:'Partial',detail:'Uniform private choice/decline, named target and bounty, public face-up markers and readable inspection; normal activation awaits private-step UX decision.',evidence:['components/moritani-assassinate.tsx','components/game-table.tsx']},
+      {area:'AI',status:'Partial',detail:'All four profiles choose from the owner-only quote or decline; no hidden rival data or strength-calibration claim.',evidence:['game/bots.ts','tests/moritani-assassinate-engine.test.ts']},
+      {area:'Documentation',status:'Partial',detail:'Official authority, dead-target conditional, normal-call ambiguity, exceptional custody and optional-module boundaries remain explicit.',evidence:['docs/MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md']},
+      {area:'Verification',status:'Partial',detail:'Rules, controls, genuine-setup staged battles, private views, authenticated recovery, concurrent writes and physical replacement chains; full faction acceptance remains open.',evidence:['tests/moritani-assassinate-quote.test.ts','tests/moritani-assassinate-engine.test.ts','tests/moritani-assassinate-controls.test.tsx','tests/moritani-assassinate-recovery.test.ts']},
+    ],
     related: [
       'faction-moritani',
       'moritani-terror-effects',