Expose Basic Kull preview in lobby

game/engine.ts

@@ -9997,16 +9997,16 @@ function takeBattleLosses(g: Game, p: Player, t: string, losses: Casualties) {
   return lostCyborgs;
 }
 /** Lobby-only selections whose saved setup shape is created at start. */
-type LobbyOptions = { leaderSkills?: true; ecazTreachery?: true };
+type LobbyOptions = { leaderSkills?: true; ecazTreachery?: true; kullPreview?: true };
 function lobbyOptionsIntegrity(g: Game) {
   const options = g.lobbyOptions;
   if (options === undefined) return;
   requireRule(g.status === 'lobby' && !!options && typeof options === 'object' && !Array.isArray(options) &&
-    Object.entries(options).every(([key, value]) => ['leaderSkills', 'ecazTreachery'].includes(key) && value === true),
+    Object.entries(options).every(([key, value]) => ['leaderSkills', 'ecazTreachery', 'kullPreview'].includes(key) && value === true),
   'Invalid lobby module options.');
 }
 function lobbyModulesSelected(g: Game): boolean {
-  return !!g.lobbyOptions?.leaderSkills || !!g.lobbyOptions?.ecazTreachery ||
+  return !!g.lobbyOptions?.leaderSkills || !!g.lobbyOptions?.ecazTreachery || !!g.lobbyOptions?.kullPreview ||
     !!g.nexusCards || g.discoveryEnabled === true || !!g.homeworlds;
 }
 /** Route a normal start through the existing genuine setup for the selected modules. */
@@ -10014,6 +10014,15 @@ function startModules(state: Game): Game {
   const options = state.lobbyOptions ?? {};
   const g = structuredClone(state);
   delete g.lobbyOptions;
+  if (options.kullPreview) {
+    requireRule(g.advanced === false && g.expansions.length === 2 && g.expansions.includes('choam') &&
+      g.expansions.includes('ix') && !!byFaction(g,'choam') &&
+      g.players.every(player => player.faction === 'choam' || CLASSIC_FACTIONS[player.faction] === true) &&
+      !options.leaderSkills && !options.ecazTreachery && !g.nexusCards && !g.discoveryEnabled &&
+      !g.homeworlds && !g.techTokens && !g.strongholdCards,
+    'Kull preview needs Basic CHOAM and classic factions, CHOAM and Ix decks, and no optional modules.');
+    return initializeKullGameForAudit(g);
+  }
   if (options.ecazTreachery && options.leaderSkills) g.ecazTreachery = true;
   if (options.leaderSkills) return initializeLeaderSkillsGameForAudit(g);
   // Keep this selection visible to its initializer even when another module was
@@ -42295,7 +42304,7 @@ function applyActionInner(
     if (t === 'moduleOption') {
       requireRule(id === g.host, 'Only the host can change optional rules.');
       const option = action.module;
-      requireRule(['leaderSkills', 'ecazTreachery', 'nexusCards', 'discoveries'].includes(option as string) &&
+      requireRule(['leaderSkills', 'ecazTreachery', 'nexusCards', 'discoveries', 'kullPreview'].includes(option as string) &&
         typeof action.enabled === 'boolean' && Object.keys(action).every(key => ['type', 'module', 'enabled'].includes(key)),
       'Choose an optional module to enable or disable.');
       if (option === 'nexusCards') g.nexusCards = action.enabled ? { cards: null, phase: null } : null;
@@ -44614,6 +44623,7 @@ export function viewGame(state: Game, id: string, now?: number) {
     techTokens: g.techTokens ?? null,
     lobbyModules: g.status === 'lobby' ? {
       leaderSkills: !!g.lobbyOptions?.leaderSkills, ecazTreachery: !!g.lobbyOptions?.ecazTreachery,
+      kullPreview: !!g.lobbyOptions?.kullPreview,
       nexusCards: !!g.nexusCards, discoveries: g.discoveryEnabled === true,
     } : null,
     ecazLoyalty: g.ecazLoyalty?.card ? { player: g.ecazLoyalty.player, card: g.ecazLoyalty.card } : null,

game/faction-reference.ts

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export const FACTION_RULES: Record<
       'Use Kulon on your movement turn to add one territory of range. Use La La La during Revival to prevent a player’s free force returns for the phase; a reactive decision lets you stop a pending free revival before it resolves. Both cards have Karama responses before discard.',
       'Trip to Gamont returns one other player’s force from a chosen sector to its reserves during Mentat. Elite types are preserved. A Karama response precedes the return, and CHOAM gets a final opportunity after the closing market before victory is checked.',
       'Baliset prevents a player from moving into a territory occupied by CHOAM for the turn, while permitting shipment. Jubba Cloak protects CHOAM forces in one territory from a moving storm. Both powers have Karama responses before the card is discarded.',
-      'In the opt-in Kull preview, react to a legal Karama attempt with held Kull Wahad before costs. The original card stays reserved; only a different eligible Karama can counter before the phase ban applies. Success spends Kull, retains the original unplayed card and prevents the activating player’s Karama uses for the phase. Decline or prevention resumes the original once; a prevented Kull stays held but its physical card’s effect is blocked that phase. See the Kull guide for deferred overbid limits. Full CHOAM starts remain closed.',
+      'The host can opt into the Basic Kull preview in a CHOAM/classic lobby with the CHOAM and Ix decks and no other modules. React to a legal Karama attempt with held Kull Wahad before costs. The original card stays reserved; only a different eligible Karama can counter before the phase ban applies. Success spends Kull, retains the original unplayed card and prevents the activating player’s Karama uses for the phase. Decline or prevention resumes the original once; a prevented Kull stays held but its physical card’s effect is blocked that phase. The preview also withholds some structured Truthtrance questions and defers unfunded non-CHOAM Karama-dependent overbids; see the Kull guide. Complete CHOAM rules remain unfinished.',
     ],
     advanced: [
       'Once per game, spend a real Karama and discard selected other cards for three spice each. The cash-in can occur during pending phase or power decisions, while committed battle cards remain protected. See the CHOAM special Karama topic for funding and timing details.',

game/reference.ts

@@ -4755,7 +4755,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'Whenever another faction requests a normal revival with a free portion, CHOAM receives a response decision independently of its private hand. Allow the request, or declare La La La for that requester. If the effect succeeds, the whole pending request stops without payment, force movement or quota use; a faction permitted to purchase normal revivals can submit a paid request. If the effect is canceled, the original quote resumes through any Tleilaxu and other applicable responses.',
       'La La La does not prevent otherwise legal paid revivals or separate Ghola card effects. With Tleilaxu in the game, Fremen may submit a paid request within their current limit after free revival is prevented. Without Tleilaxu, Fremen’s base purchase restriction leaves no normal force return available. Emperor-funded extras remain separate. The prohibition resets when the next Revival phase begins. Card custody is checked at settlement: if CHOAM cashed in the declared card during the response, no Worthless effect occurs and the interrupted revival resumes.',
       'During Shipment and Movement, use Baliset to select another player and a territory CHOAM occupies. The current implementation prevents that player from entering that territory by movement for the phase while CHOAM remains there; shipment is allowed. A declared move into a CHOAM territory pauses for CHOAM regardless of its private hand. Allow it or declare Baliset. A successful effect leaves the moving forces in place and the movement unspent; a canceled or unavailable card resumes the original move after checking its legality again.',
-      'Kulon, La La La, Baliset, Jubba Cloak and Trip to Gamont have engine, private controls and AI support. Printed Kull Wahad has a separate opt-in development preview; the explicit Nexus Kull profile adds Cunning fuel choices at that same reaction, not in every Nexus game. See both Kull guides for distinct counters, pre-conversion Bene Gesserit custody and the deferred winning-overbid boundary. Exact cancellation scope, Hajr/ornithopter combinations, Baliset duration and destination scope, simultaneous prevention and later module exceptions remain under audit. Normal expansion starts remain disabled.',
+      'Kulon, La La La, Baliset, Jubba Cloak and Trip to Gamont have engine, private controls and AI support. Printed Kull Wahad has an opt-in Basic lobby preview for CHOAM and classic factions with the CHOAM and Ix decks and no other modules; the explicit Nexus Kull profile adds Cunning fuel choices at that same reaction, not in every Nexus game. See both Kull guides for distinct counters, pre-conversion Bene Gesserit custody and the deferred winning-overbid boundary. Exact cancellation scope, Hajr/ornithopter combinations, Baliset duration and destination scope, simultaneous prevention and later module exceptions remain under audit. Complete expansion play remains unfinished.',
     ],
     related: [
       'faction-choam',
@@ -4778,7 +4778,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
     developmentStage: 'Prototyped',
     summary: 'React before a Karama is played; a distinct counter can stop Kull before its phase restriction begins.',
     steps: [
-      'This opt-in development preview supports CHOAM with classic factions in Basic or Advanced, using the physical CHOAM and Ix Treachery decks without optional modules. Basic supports printed ordinary Karama; Advanced also supports Bene Gesserit substitutions and the legal special powers of this roster. Existing games are not retrofitted. Normal expansion starts remain closed, and the visible preview warning is not rules-completion approval.',
+      'In the lobby, the host can opt into this Basic development preview with CHOAM and classic factions, the CHOAM and Ix Treachery decks, and no other optional modules. It uses printed ordinary Karama. The preview withholds some structured Truthtrance question types and defers unfunded non-CHOAM Karama-dependent bids; leave it off to retain the ordinary current game. A separate Advanced development profile supports Bene Gesserit substitutions and legal special powers. Existing games are not retrofitted, and the warning is not rules-completion approval.',
       'Another player’s legal Karama cancellation, shipment-rate use, immediate auction purchase, winning-bid payment or supported special activation pauses before its card and other costs. CHOAM sees the attempted player and purpose and may decline or choose a legal held Kull Wahad. Each Use names its printed source explicitly. The separate Nexus Kull guide covers additional Cunning costs in its new profile only. The same public opportunity appears without Kull in hand, so waiting does not disclose hidden ownership. Invalid attempts never open this window; CHOAM does not receive a self-targeted Kull offer.',
       'Decline resumes the original attempt once. Declaring Kull opens the ordinary CHOAM-effect response. Kull is still pending: its target may counter with a different eligible physical Karama before any phase ban applies. The interrupted card stays reserved and cannot serve as its own counter. Other eligible responders use their existing response controls.',
       'If everyone allows Kull, CHOAM discards the exact Kull card. The original attempted card remains in its owner’s hand; its effect and additional costs do not occur, and an attempted special once-per-game use remains unspent. Basic prevents that player’s Karama activations for this phase. A new Advanced attempt instead prevents only the specific effect: shipment pricing, free Treachery purchase, that faction’s special, or cancellation of the particular advantage. Other effects remain available; printed and substituted Karama share the same restriction. An allied shipment recipient is not automatically the restricted player.',