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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Apr 2 09:20 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 08:29 AM:

Does Jocly currently support any variant that uses Berolina Pawns at all? The 3d realization was made mostly as a test case for the initial version of the Tube tool (it is a purely cylindrical design). In that sense the committing of it was a bit premature, like for the Flamingo.

The design you have here looks a lot like the Alfaerie design, which is a variation on the Alfaerie normal Pawn. But the Wikipedia set uses an entirely different Pawn design. If we want to add new Pawn types, I think we should use that as basis.

Spartan Chess is an implemented variant that uses a different Pawn type, for the Spartans. These 'Hoplits' are very close to a Berolina Pawn, but not exactly equal, because their initial double push can jump, and isn't subject to e.p. capture. They do have their own 3d image, (a Pawn modified to carry a lance), but also use the normal Pawn image in 2d. If we want to distinguish the Pawns in 2d it seems more urgent to do find a symbol for those. In the WinBoard implementation I use the Lance pictogram for those. We could also do that in Jocly (now that we added the Lance). But it would still not have its own picto-sprite in that case. (But who would want to use a Lance and a Hoplit in the same variant...)

I am not sure we should go for a double-head design in 2d if we did not also do that in 3d. An alternative would be to write a V on their breast, to symbolize their non-capturing move.

And what about the Asian Pawn, for the western skins of the Shogi variants? These now also use the normal Pawn symbol.