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Onslaught. Several pieces can capture only on the enemy half, favoring attack. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Jan 26 08:27 AM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:23 AM:

I wanted a Rook-class piece to have a good value spectrum. The Hunter and similar 3-way sliders would be too weak. 5-way sliders (bfRfB?) might be too strong, and also have the disadvantage of becoming very similar to either R or B.

I could also go for divergence instead of asymmetry. E.g. mBcR, or if that is too weak, mBWcR. But I am not sure that this would be any better than a BW, in the sense of being more different from what else is already on the board. To not bias the game back towards favoring defense the piece must have some sliding/riding moves, and the sliding moves only come in two flavors, which are already heavily used.

It is a bit of a dilemma, because I consider it best to present the idea of the 'attacking leapers' in a setting that otherwise would be as ordinary as possible. So I hesitate to include very uncommon pieces. Otherwise a Mao-rider  might be an idea. Or a crooked piece.