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Flight and Ferry. The gold dragon of Wessex fights the red one of Wales across the Bristol Channel. (8x10, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ben Reiniger wrote on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 03:43 AM UTC:
Where does it say the king cannot move to the other side of the board?

I would assume that rook moves and dragons can indeed fly over ferries. This and the other rules might be made clearer (though I think the first two Jörg lists are obvious without) by refraining from calling the ferry a piece, but instead a landmark or special square (or something more well thought out).

I agree that crossing the river is probably too hard, especially when dragons cannot guard a newly crossed piece. The latter could be easily fixed by allowing dragons to use ferries or even just capture onto a ferry; however this still leaves protecting ferried pieces rather difficult.