Since these variants have so many piece types, I tried to pick mainly pieces that a player might already be familiar with. This is why I preferred WAD and FC over FAH and WC, and avoided bent sliders that turn after two steps. I had my doubts on FC, because I already have a pure C. But because it is such a well-known piece I considered it admissble. Other compounds of C plus a 4-target atom (such as WC) would suffer from the same lack of distinction with the pure C, and would not have the benefit of being somewhat familiar.
I could not afford eliminating the Camel itself, because there aren't too many totally symmetric 8-target leapers, and I needed everyone I could get to have enough knight-class pieces. But when I want to avoid including pieces that differ from each other by just having 4 extra moves, that leaves almost no 12-target leapers.
Since these variants have so many piece types, I tried to pick mainly pieces that a player might already be familiar with. This is why I preferred WAD and FC over FAH and WC, and avoided bent sliders that turn after two steps. I had my doubts on FC, because I already have a pure C. But because it is such a well-known piece I considered it admissble. Other compounds of C plus a 4-target atom (such as WC) would suffer from the same lack of distinction with the pure C, and would not have the benefit of being somewhat familiar.
I could not afford eliminating the Camel itself, because there aren't too many totally symmetric 8-target leapers, and I needed everyone I could get to have enough knight-class pieces. But when I want to avoid including pieces that differ from each other by just having 4 extra moves, that leaves almost no 12-target leapers.