Compose classic Nexus with Tech and Advanced Stronghold Cards

game/engine.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { classicNexusModulesProfile } from './nexus-module-profile';
 import { nativeFactionTechProfile } from './faction-module-profile';
 import { advancedMoritaniLeaderSkillsProfile, advancedNativeLeaderSkillsProfile, classicTechLeaderSkillsProfile, nativeExpansionLeaderSkillsProfile, nativeTechLeaderSkillsProfile, ordinaryLeaderSkillModeSupported, strongholdLeaderSkillsProfile } from './leader-skill-profile';
 import { bribeTimingBlock, maximumBribe, type BribeOptions } from './bribe-options';
@@ -2541,7 +2542,7 @@ function nexusEmperorSecretAllyOffer(g:Game,owner:string) {
     let purchaseBlock:string|null = null;
     if (p.ally) purchaseBlock = 'Emperor Nexus Secret Ally requires an unallied buyer.';
     else if (!emperorNexusModeSupported(g) || g.ecazTreachery || g.sandtrout)
-      purchaseBlock = 'Emperor Nexus purchase currently requires classic factions and Nexus alone.';
+      purchaseBlock = 'Emperor Nexus purchase requires a supported classic Nexus profile; unrelated modules remain unavailable.';
     else if (g.response || g.truthtrance || g.phaseOpening || g.pendingKarama ||
       g.pendingTreacheryDiscard || g.pendingNullentropy || g.pendingExchange ||
       g.pendingRicheseGift || g.pendingRichesePurchaseIncome || g.pendingAmbassador ||
@@ -2558,7 +2559,7 @@ function nexusEmperorSecretAllyOffer(g:Game,owner:string) {
   }
   let blocked:string|null = null;
   if (p.ally) blocked = 'Emperor Nexus Secret Ally requires an unallied holder.';
-  else if (!emperorNexusModeSupported(g)) blocked = 'Emperor Nexus Secret Ally currently requires base factions and Nexus alone; expansion and other module combinations remain pending.';
+  else if (!emperorNexusModeSupported(g)) blocked = 'Emperor Nexus Secret Ally requires a supported classic Nexus profile; expansions and unrelated modules remain pending.';
   else if (g.status !== 'playing' || g.phase !== 4) blocked = 'Use the three-force Emperor Nexus return during Revival.';
   else if (g.response || g.decision || g.truthtrance || g.phaseOpening || g.pendingRevival || g.pendingKarama ||
     g.pendingTreacheryDiscard || g.pendingNullentropy || g.pendingExchange || g.pendingRicheseGift ||
@@ -2615,6 +2616,7 @@ function playNexusEmperorRevive(g:Game,p:Player,action:Action) {
   g.nexusCards!.cards = nexusRule(() => discardNexusCard(g.nexusCards!.cards!,p.id,g.players));
   addRevivedReserves(g,p,EMPEROR_NEXUS_REVIVALS,elite); p.tanks -= EMPEROR_NEXUS_REVIVALS;
   if (p.elites) {p.elites.tanks -= elite;p.elites.revived += elite;}
+  techIncome(g, 'axlotl', p);
   const record:NexusEmperorRevival = {kind:'revival',event:offer.event,owner:p.id,turn:g.turn,phase:4,
     faction:p.faction,advanced:g.advanced,
     sequence:g.nexusEmperorSecretHistory?.length ?? 0,elite,before,after:emperorNexusPools(p),signature:''};
@@ -2792,6 +2794,7 @@ function playNexusFremenRevive(g: Game, p: Player, action: Action) {
   p.revived += FREMEN_NEXUS_FREE_FORCES;
   p.freeForcesRevived = (p.freeForcesRevived ?? 0) + FREMEN_NEXUS_FREE_FORCES;
   if (p.elites) { p.elites.tanks -= elite; p.elites.revived += elite; }
+  techIncome(g, 'axlotl', p);
   const record: FremenNexusRevival = { event: offer.event, owner: p.id, turn: g.turn,
     phase: 4, faction: p.faction, advanced: g.advanced, elite, before,
     after: fremenNexusRevivalPools(p), signature: '' };
@@ -9429,12 +9432,13 @@ function initializeSetupGameForAudit(state: Game, homeworlds: boolean, nexus = f
   const skillStronghold = leaderSkills && strongholdLeaderSkillsProfile(g);
   const skillTech = leaderSkills && (classicTechLeaderSkillsProfile(g) || nativeTechLeaderSkillsProfile(g) || skillStronghold);
   const nativeTech = factions && !leaderSkills && nativeFactionTechProfile(g);
-  requireRule(!g.techTokens || ((skillTech || nativeTech) &&
+  const nexusModules = nexus && classicNexusModulesProfile(g);
+  requireRule(!g.techTokens || ((skillTech || nativeTech || nexusModules) &&
     JSON.stringify(g.techTokens) === JSON.stringify(createTechTokens())),
   'Tech Tokens require a fresh supported three-through-six-seat lobby with unused tokens.');
-  requireRule(!g.strongholdCards || strongholdFactions || (skillStronghold &&
+  requireRule(!g.strongholdCards || strongholdFactions || ((skillStronghold || nexusModules) &&
     JSON.stringify(g.strongholdCards) === JSON.stringify(createStrongholdCards())),
-  'Leader Skills with Stronghold Cards requires a fresh supported Advanced lobby with unused cards.');
+  'Stronghold Cards require a fresh supported Advanced lobby with unused cards.');
   requireRule(
     (homeworlds || nexus || ix || choam || factions || g.expansions.length === 0) &&
       (choam || factions || !g.expansions.includes('choam')) &&
@@ -9443,8 +9447,8 @@ function initializeSetupGameForAudit(state: Game, homeworlds: boolean, nexus = f
       (discovery || !g.discoveryEnabled) &&
       (nexus || !g.nexusCards) &&
       (ecazTreachery || !g.ecazTreachery) &&
-      (!g.techTokens || skillTech || nativeTech) &&
-      (strongholdFactions || skillStronghold || !g.strongholdCards) &&
+      (!g.techTokens || skillTech || nativeTech || nexusModules) &&
+      (strongholdFactions || skillStronghold || nexusModules || !g.strongholdCards) &&
       (homeworlds || !g.homeworlds) &&
       g.players.every((p) =>
         FACTIONS.some(

game/nexus-emperor-secret-ally.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { Game, Player } from './engine';
 import { eliteRevivalRemaining } from './revival';
+import { classicNexusModulesProfile } from './nexus-module-profile';
 
 export const EMPEROR_NEXUS_REVIVALS = 3;
 export type EmperorNexusPools = {
@@ -69,8 +70,7 @@ export function emperorNexusModeSupported(g: Game): boolean {
     !g.discoveries &&
     !g.discoveryStash &&
     !g.greatMaker &&
-    !g.techTokens &&
-    !g.strongholdCards
+    ((!g.techTokens && !g.strongholdCards) || classicNexusModulesProfile(g))
   );
 }
 /** A fixed three-counter grant preserves the separate Advanced elite cap. */

game/nexus-fremen-revival.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { Game, Player } from './engine';
 import { eliteRevivalRemaining, forceRevivalLimit, freeRevivalRate } from './revival';
+import { classicNexusModulesProfile } from './nexus-module-profile';
 
 export const FREMEN_NEXUS_FREE_FORCES = 3;
 type RevivalPools = { reserves: number; tanks: number; eliteReserves: number; eliteTanks: number;
@@ -38,10 +39,10 @@ export function fremenNexusRevivalOffer(g: Game, owner: string) {
   let blocked: string | null = null;
   if (p.ally) blocked = 'An allied player cannot use a Nexus card.';
   else if (g.status !== 'playing' || g.phase !== 4) blocked = 'Use Fremen Secret Ally during Revival.';
-  else if (g.expansions.length || g.homeworlds || g.leaderSkills || g.discoveryEnabled ||
+  else if (!classicNexusModulesProfile(g) && (g.expansions.length || g.homeworlds || g.leaderSkills || g.discoveryEnabled ||
     g.discoveries || g.discoveryStash || g.greatMaker || g.ecazTreachery ||
     g.techTokens || g.strongholdCards ||
-    g.players.some(seat => !['atreides', 'harkonnen', 'emperor', 'guild', 'beneGesserit'].includes(seat.faction)))
+    g.players.some(seat => !['atreides', 'harkonnen', 'emperor', 'guild', 'beneGesserit'].includes(seat.faction))))
     blocked = 'Combined expansion and module revival interactions remain unavailable.';
   else if (g.response || g.decision || g.truthtrance || g.phaseOpening || g.pendingRevival ||
     g.pendingKarama || g.pendingTreacheryDiscard || g.pendingNullentropy ||

game/nexus-module-profile.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { FACTIONS } from './catalog';
+import type { FactionModuleProfile } from './faction-module-profile';
+
+/** Public classic configuration only; the initializer checks undealt physical components. */
+export function classicNexusModulesProfile(game: FactionModuleProfile): boolean {
+  if (typeof game.advanced !== 'boolean' || !game.nexusCards ||
+    (!game.techTokens && !game.strongholdCards) || game.expansions.length !== 0 ||
+    game.players.length < 2 || game.players.length > 6 ||
+    (game.techTokens && game.players.length < 3) ||
+    (game.strongholdCards && !game.advanced) || game.leaderSkills || game.homeworlds ||
+    game.discoveryEnabled || game.discoveries || game.discoveryStash || game.greatMaker ||
+    game.ecazTreachery || game.semutaPreview || game.advancedPreview ||
+    game.kullPreview || game.nexusKullPreview || game.guildBetrayalPreview ||
+    game.richeseBetrayalPreview || game.nexusIxianReplacementPreview ||
+    game.nexusIxianBetrayalPreview || game.nexusHarkonnenBetrayalPreview) return false;
+  for (let i = 0; i < game.players.length; i++) {
+    const player = game.players[i];
+    for (let j = 0; j < i; j++) if (player.faction === game.players[j].faction) return false;
+    let classic = false;
+    for (const faction of FACTIONS)
+      if (faction.id === player.faction) { classic = faction.expansion === 'base'; break; }
+    if (!classic) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}

game/reference.ts

@@ -4365,6 +4365,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'Before drawing, choose whether to keep your own faction card, redraw it once, or redraw whenever it appears. Its effect is available in the reference before making this choice. The server applies that preference immediately; the table never pauses in a way that identifies a card you chose to keep.',
       'Entering any alliance discards your held Nexus Card, including alliances made through an Ambassador or Terror token. An offer that has not been accepted does not discard it.',
       'Use Cunning for your own faction, Betrayal when another player controls the printed faction, and Secret Ally when that faction is absent. Used cards go to the separate Nexus discard pile. Each printed effect has its own timing.',
+      'Fresh local classic Nexus tables may preserve original Tech Tokens in Basic/Advanced three-through-six-seat lobbies and/or Stronghold Cards in Advanced two-through-six-seat lobbies; selecting both requires three or more. Original base33/all12 setup, closing Nexus deals, first-Storm Tech and actual end-Mentat Stronghold custody remain. Skills, Homeworlds in this composition, native expansions, unrelated previews, public starts and saved-game conversion stay separate.',
       'Atreides Cunning adds a second, different opposing plan element after the first native answer. Both remain binding. Use it in your own battle before sealing your plan; Karama may cancel the extra attempt while preserving the first disclosure.',
       'With Atreides absent, Secret Ally inspects one opposing element in your battle. A sealed plan supplies only that selected answer automatically. Otherwise the opponent chooses an answer that permits a legal plan. Other players receive no private answer.',
       'The No-Field restriction names Atreides, so Cunning cannot inspect that dial. A non-Atreides Secret Ally holder may request it without learning the token denomination or other plan elements.',
@@ -4385,7 +4386,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'Emperor Cunning requires an Advanced battle with at least five ordinary Emperor counters and no actual Sardaukar, before submitting your plan. The played Nexus card opens one Karama response. Allowing it makes five ordinary counters count as Sardaukar for this battle; cancellation prevents the entire enhancement and leaves the Nexus card spent.',
       'Temporary Sardaukar use the applicable strength and support rules, including the Fremen exception, but remain physically ordinary counters. Their losses go to Tanks as ordinary counters, without changing starred reserves or Tanks. Existing inspected or promised plans remain binding. The role ends after this battle; fewer-than-five groups remain unavailable. The separate Secret Ally revival and normal bank-auction purchase have connected controls; seller-paid and forced Emperor payments remain unfinished.',
       'Emperor Betrayal has a battle alternative in Advanced play: an unallied opponent holding the Emperor Nexus card can spend it during the ordinary pre-plan Sardaukar response to suppress actual Sardaukar strength for this battle. Every seat receives the same response opportunity even with no card, keeping hidden custody private. The starred pieces remain physical Sardaukar; no card grants a new force or cancels their separate support benefit.',
-      'With Fremen absent, an unallied holder may spend Fremen Secret Ally during Revival to return exactly three eligible forces from Tanks to reserves at no spice cost. Unlike Emperor Secret Ally, these three consume the ordinary force and free-force allowances, including the Advanced one-elite cap. This first path requires base factions and Nexus alone, before any normal force returns, without combined revival effects. Partial returns, prior returns, higher free rates and separate sandworm protection remain unavailable.',
+      'With Fremen absent, an unallied holder may spend Fremen Secret Ally during Revival to return exactly three eligible forces from Tanks to reserves at no spice cost. Unlike Emperor Secret Ally, these three consume the ordinary force and free-force allowances, including the Advanced one-elite cap. This bounded base-faction path keeps prior-return and competing-revival guards; supported classic Tech/Stronghold composition invokes actual Axlotl activity after the batch, independently of allowance accounting. Both free returns collect Tech only at phase end, never as spendable advance spice. Partial returns, prior returns, higher free rates and separate sandworm protection remain unavailable.',
       'Native Fremen Cunning has a bounded Nexus-only path: when a natural, accepted additional, or Advanced special-Karama summoned worm appears in a territory initially containing no forces, Fremen may spend their own Nexus card before the worm resolves. The special summon retains its original Spice Blow parent. After the applicable Nexus, choose some forces from one occupied desert territory and ride to a legal Arrakis destination without using normal movement. The choice appears even without the secret card, so declining does not disclose custody. Karama provisionally prevents only the additional remote ride; the original worm still resolves and the card remains spent. An interrupted existing Cunning control is restored, and a selected ride waits for the summoned Nexus without granting a second Cunning offer; Great Maker and combined optional modules await integration.',
       'CHOAM Secret Ally has a working Collection trade: when CHOAM is absent, an unallied holder may discard one Worthless card and the Nexus card for two bank spice. After a battle victory, every winner in an eligible Nexus game receives the same use-or-continue window; an unallied CHOAM-card holder may instead spend that card to inspect one random unused card in the opposing combatant’s current hand. Played battle cards remain excluded even if retained. The inspected face is private, while use is public. The universal window protects concealed card custody; this is an interface interpretation, not a publisher-prescribed prompt. An ordinary Karama response to this Secret Ally inspection remains unestablished.',
       'With CHOAM seated, an unallied holder may spend CHOAM Betrayal at a clean play boundary to discard one uniformly random held CHOAM Treachery Card without spice compensation. The target name is public, but its hand count is offered only during Bidding; the holder cannot pick or inspect the card before the ordinary discard reveal.',
@@ -4394,6 +4395,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'Moritani Cunning modifies its normal Mentat placement: choose one available supply token and a territory on the printed Arrakis board, including a territory already containing Terror. The explicit Cunning toggle keeps ordinary placement and relocation unchanged. Homeworlds, the Hidden Mobile Stronghold, Cunning relocation and combined Grumman use are unavailable.',
       'With Moritani seated, an unallied holder of its Nexus card may spend Betrayal at a clean play boundary to return one placed Terror token to hidden Moritani supply without revealing its face. Choose the public location and token, not its secret effect; this does not use Moritani’s Mentat placement or trigger that token.',
       'When Moritani is absent, a defeated combatant with an eligible publicly played card receives the same postbattle choice whether or not they hold Moritani Nexus. An unallied holder may spend it to retain one played card that a winner could keep; other played cards follow ordinary discard. Without a publicly eligible card there is no prompt. The choice is after the battle result and before later income/capture; the public prompt protects hidden custody and is an interface inference. This Secret Ally effect has no invented ordinary Karama response. Native Moritani allied retention remains a different, cancelable ability.',
+      'With actual Advanced Stronghold Cards, Arrakeen bank support changes the real payer debit, not personal income. Emperor Cunning temporary Sardaukar remain physically ordinary counters and retain ordinary Tanks custody. Original losing Moritani retention precedes mandatory original-winner Tech, then CHOAM inspection excludes used opposing cards even if retained. Ordinary city Collection remains separate; none of these windows repeats the original support, card cost or casualties.',
       'Ecaz Betrayal is available to an unallied holder with Ecaz seated and reciprocally allied in a shared Arrakis territory. At the opening of Shipment and Movement, choose one such territory; the ally returns its entire normal and starred force group from every sector there to reserves, leaving Ecaz forces in place. The Nexus card is spent before a Karama response. Cancellation preserves the board but not the card. Only the base/Ecaz Nexus roster without combined modules is supported.',
       'Ecaz Cunning lets an unallied native holder spend the physical Nexus card at a quiet Battle boundary to take the existing living Duke Vidal for the turn, even from Moritani. The Duke can be selected through ordinary Battle plans and is set aside after use or at turn end. This first version is limited to paired Ecaz/Moritani with other classic factions and no combined optional modules; Advanced Harkonnen is excluded because the existing battle path cannot select Duke there. Taking Duke from the Tanks, capture or Ghola custody remains unimplemented. The Battle-only timing is a product boundary, not printed text.',
       'Fremen Betrayal has two bounded advance-declaration alternatives for an unallied holder in a classic Nexus table. Before the first Spice Blow or worm appearance, spend the physical card to prevent Fremen ordinary and Cunning worm rides for the turn; worm survival, destruction and Nexus still resolve. This clean timing is a product boundary, not an official post-appearance priority ruling. Instead, before Fremen move during Shipment and Movement, spend it to suppress their native two-territory advantage for that turn while ordinary movement and independent ornithopters remain. Only one alternative can be used even if the card is recycled later that turn. Owner controls show the currently available choice; combined modules and reactive post-worm timing remain gated.',
@@ -4403,6 +4405,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'Richese Betrayal has a separate opt-in auction preview. Before payment, an unallied rival may spend its physical Richese Nexus card to discard a public self-cache win without any purchase debit, or redirect another buyer’s cache/Black Market payment to the bank while preserving delivery and earned bonus. Every publicly possible holder acknowledges the same opportunity; private Use eligibility cannot determine public timing. Normal hidden self-purchases and private special-Karama acquisitions are not connected. See the dedicated guide for its existing local runtime/browser evidence and remaining release gates; that evidence does not verify Nexus Kull.',
       'Guild Cunning is declared when finishing your ordinary Shipment and Movement turn. It spends the Nexus and opens one Karama response. Allowance grants a second native shipment at normal Guild prices, including supported cross-shipment, return and Homeworld routes. Cancellation leaves the completed first turn intact. Only an unused Hajr move can follow the second shipment; no ordinary movement or third move is granted. The physical Ornithopter card combination remains unavailable. The separate guild-betrayal profile admits only original native shipment producers and explicitly blocks this second-shipment offer before Nexus spending; Cunning outside that profile is unchanged.',
       'With Guild absent, its Secret Ally is an explicit optional source for one ordinary shipment at Guild prices. It supports physical reserve shipment, cross-shipment and return to abstract reserves, plus half-price independently legal world-to-world shipment. Fremen may retain free reinforcement or choose the paid card route beyond its normal range, outside the storm. Native faction, typed sources and normal movement stay unchanged. Homeworld reserve return awaits a ruling; arbitrary foreign-world transport and concealed No-Fields are not granted.',
+      'Borrowed Guild/Richese tariffs do not change native faction or physical reserve origin. Non-Guild/non-Fremen off-planet arrivals can accrue Heighliners once for collection at the original phase end. A paid borrowed Guild route from Fremen southern reserves is still on-planet and does not trigger it; stopped and native-Guild-only shipments likewise remain excluded. The existing Emperor bank-auction purchase retains the actual buyer wallet and creates no industry activity.',
       'Guild Betrayal has a separate fresh classic/native-Guild development preview. Before a fully funded positive shipment settles, an unallied holder may spend the physical Guild Nexus to take the full original fee, including their own pre-funded payment, instead of Guild, bank or occupied Junction income. Original donor escrow is consumed once and original physical delivery is unchanged. Neutral public acknowledgements reveal no fee/source; only private eligibility exposes Use. Zero/stopped shipments create no award or Nexus cost. See the dedicated guide; new verification remains Planned and ordinary Homeworld occupation/rounding questions stay local.',
       'Cunning spends its Nexus card and uses the native Mentat placement opportunity. A Karama response precedes placement; cancellation leaves the token where it was and the Nexus spent. Later Terror entry still uses the existing one-token stack selection and supported effect rules. If Extortion was revealed this turn, its bank award and payment choices follow that placement response; this does not implement Atomics or complete Moritani games.',
       'Hidden reactive Betrayal timing remains unresolved for other effects. Complete module games are unfinished, so public module starts remain disabled.',