Announce leaderless native Basic battles before plans

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

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 ## Current checkpoint and work
 
+**Basic early leaderless announcement for expansion factions — 29 October.
+Prototyped / Partial.** Eligible Basic selected-faction battles announce before
+plans, preserving neutral Ghola preparation, Richese's shared preparation and
+the selected Ecaz coalition lead. A later Cheap Hero transfer corrects the
+notice. Twelve related files pass 98 cases; public-start native fixtures cover
+all six expansion factions, and the no-Richese coalition supplement uses an
+audit initializer. Leader history and some physical card or board states are
+staged. Optional modules, broader capture interactions, full games and deployed
+verification remain open.
+[Scope](RULE_DECISIONS.md#basic-leaderless-battle-announcement--29-october-2026).
+
 **Selected Nexus with Leader Skills and unused families — 29 October.
 Prototyped / Partial.** Basic and Advanced previews support selected decks,
 Nexus and Leader Skills even when some families are unseated, without requiring

docs/RULE_DECISIONS.md

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 ## Basic leaderless battle announcement — 29 October 2026
 
+Fresh Basic selected-faction battles without optional modules now use this
+early announcement, including the original Richese preparation and Ecaz's
+chosen coalition lead. Public shared-Duke custody and the existing concealed
+capture boundary constrain announcements; a later received Cheap Hero also
+withdraws the current notice. This extends the provisional online ordering,
+not a new publisher timing ruling. Optional-module and full-game acceptance
+remain open.
+
 Fresh classic Basic games with Harkonnen also open the neutral dead-leader
 preparation using each native leader's public pre-capture snapshot. An
 announcement is made only when the public native discs are unavailable, so it