Flying Armies2

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Flying Armies2 is played on an 8x8 board. Captured pieces are kept in-hand and may be dropped back on board as your own. Pawns promote to knight dabbaba or alfil. There are 4 zrf files, described below. * Army Wars2 -beta1: i have made a 'Sliders' army to join the 4 original armies that battle with each other in the first 'Flying Armies'. The Slider pieces are described as follows .. Queen-2-Slider: slides 1 or 2 squares on the queen lines MooStar: slides 2 squares to make a knight move + non-capture wazir Bishop3: slides 1, 2 or 3 squares diagonally AlibabaWazirSlider: Chinese chess elephant + slides 2 orthogonal + wazir * Sliders: 5 variants with the above mentioned sliders plus the following .. Dracula: slides 2 orthogonal then 2 diagonally outward + wazir Sangzir: Korean chess elephant + wazir XiangStar: Chinese chess elephant + fers Rook3: slides 1, 2 or 3 orthogonally * Makruk: Thai Chess with drops! * MirChess32: David Paulowich's 'MirChess32'! Also David has made another game for this zrf called 'Flying Mir Chess', and i have made a couple based on these games. 'Switch piece set' to choose from 5 different boards. below screen from 'ArmyWars2 -beta1' zrf, 'Sliders vs Shogi' AlibabaWazirSlider on a1, MooStar on b1, Bishop3 on c1 and Queen-2-Slider on e1.

The Slider army seems to play nicely against the other 4 armies, i think they may be ok to fight against the powerful Shogi and Chaturanga armies. There are 5 variants on the 'Sliders' zrf with some interesting sliders. 'Sangzir' has a 3 square slide and 'Dracula' has a 4 square slide, making for some fun play for a game with drops :) below screen from 'Sliders' zrf, 'Dracula and Sangzir' Rook3 on a1, MooStar b1, Sangzir c1 and Dracula e1

wow updated only 1 day after release :o ok well, i don't know how i forgot about 'Makruk', shame on me :) below is a screenshot.

another day, another update, added another zrf 'MirChess32'!! below is a screenshot.

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By Christine Bagley-Jones.
Web page created: 2006-07-15. Web page last updated: 2006-07-29

Comments

. added 'MirChess32' zrf.

💡📝Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sat, Jul 29, 2006 12:46 PM EDT:

well thank you very much whoever was doing all that, all is right now :)

💡📝Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sat, Jul 29, 2006 12:41 PM EDT:

well, it seems to have gone in the 'what's new' now, but it says 'added
Makruk zrf (that was last update)
it should say 'added 'mirchess32' zrf

💡📝Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sat, Jul 29, 2006 12:07 PM EDT:

i have updated this with a new zrf called 'MirChess32', it is David
Paulowich's Mir Chess. David has also made a game called 'Flying Mir
Chess' for this zrf, check them out they play very nice.
i have also made a couple of games based on these games.

i tried to update this in the 'what's new' but got this message ..

Error performing query: Duplicate entry 'MZflyingarmies2' for key 1

(i just wanted to say 'added 'mirchess32' zrf)

maybe you can't update a game that is already just updated :)

💡📝Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sun, Jul 16, 2006 07:24 PM EDT:

and i update you, yes only 1 day after release an update, shoot me lol, i had to do it, i added 'makruk' variant, 2 variants, one with pawns on 2nd rank cause 'armies' is played with drops etc etc, but i think the true makruk variant is fine cause of the 'khon' (Thai Bishop/elephant), i.e. handles pawn drops.