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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, May 3, 2008 05:18 PM UTC:

Well, Reinhard, there could be many explanations for the 'surprising'
strength of an all-Knight army, and we could speculate forever on it. But
it would only mean anything if we could actually find ways to test it. I
think the mutual defence is a real effect, and I expect an army of all
different 8-target leapers to do significantly worse than an army of all
Knights, even though all 8-target leapers are almost equally strong. But
it would have to be tested.

Defending each other for Archbishops is useless (in the absence of opponet
Q, C or A), as defending Archbishop in the face of Knight attacks is of
zero use. So the factthey can do it is not worth anything.

Nevertheless, the Archbishops do not do so bad as you want to make us
believe, and I think they still would have a fighting chance against 9
Knights. So perhaps I will run this tests (on the Battle-of-the-Goths
port, so that everyone can watch) if I have nothing better to do. But
currently I have more important and urgent things to do on my Chess PC. I
have a great idea for a search enhancement in Joker, and would like to
implement and test it before ICT8.