The replay system, whole — REPLAY-CLIP-DESIGN.md phases 2 through 4, on top of the recorder that shipped in Laurels. Every match already writes a .crown; now you can watch them, cut them, and film them.

▶ WATCH REPLAY. Every Match History row with a recording plays it back on the real battle scene — the same board, effects, battle log and banners the live match used, driven by the recording instead of by anyone's input. An ⬆ IMPORT REPLAY button plays a .crown a friend sent, which closes the loop the feature was asked for: download a match, hand it to someone, they watch it in their game.
A real transport bar. Pause, 0.5× to 4× speed (2× and up skip hit-stop and cinematics exactly like fast-forward), restart, a turn scrubber, and a FOLLOW toggle that frees the camera from the acting unit — pan, orbit and zoom wherever you like while the battle tells itself. Scrubbing to turn 30 quietly re-simulates the whole battle up to that moment through the engine (nine milliseconds for the biggest mode — what Laurels' determinism fix bought), so the board you land on is exact, not approximate. Pacing is the recording's own rhythm with the thinking time squeezed out: an AI exchange keeps its cadence, a 25-second deliberation becomes one beat.
✂ CLIP. Pause on the moment and cut "this turn", "the last 3 turns", or "from here to the end" into a fresh .crown — windows are measured in TURNS, never seconds, because recorded time includes thinking time and "the last 30 seconds" can be one turn of somebody deliberating. A clip is a first-class replay: its opening state is re-simulated at the cut point, so it can itself be scrubbed, clipped again, or filmed. A clip that stops before the final turn drops the verdict from its end card — it doesn't know the ending. The exported file pops open in Explorer, ready to drag into Discord.
A film camera (tools/render-replay.ps1, dev-side): point Godot's own Movie Maker at any .crown and get a fixed-framerate H.264 of it — every frame rendered, none dropped, encoded with the same settings as the site's ability films. This is the marketing-clip pipeline: any moment from any match ever recorded, re-filmed at full quality with a free camera, without anyone having had capture software running when it happened.
Replays of ONLINE matches play with everything except the scrubber and clipping, since the other players' commands never reach your client. A replay can't be mistaken for a match: a ◉ REPLAY badge sits in the corner, no turn is ever yours, nothing you press can act, and a watched match records no new replay, adds no history row, and pays no spoils.

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