I think the set-up works well, but that game ended rather quickly. I messed up my first few moves and wasted moves trying to get in a more favourable position. Meanwhile, you got your pieces ready to go and I wasn't able to make a comeback. I still enjoyed it, except for the last few turns, but I had few options. Maybe it's just because the game was short, but it seemed to me that fewer pieces ended up promoting. It might also have seemed that way because we could only drop pieces with their demoted side facing up and pieces only promoted once. Even so, there were few captures during that game which made it less exciting than some games we've played.

I found the game more interesting with more promotions so maybe we should revert to the old promotion rules but still allow only the weaker values to be dropped onto the board. What do you think? Do you think the game would be more interesting if we did that?

I also think that the FS/B should be stuck behind more pieces (maybe switch it with the RC/SC) at the beginning. With the current set-up it can be moved into play quite early in the game and is able to cover a significant portion of the board. If used effectively it can do a lot of damage. Once a player has both of them, like this game, the other player is suddenly very limited in what they can do since they can cover so much of the board at one time. I had a poor defense, so maybe it was just bad planning on my part, but I don't like how it dominated the game.

Other than that, I enjoyed the first twenty turns or so and I could have gotten quite far if you had dropped the second FS/B onto the board just a few turns later. On the whole, I think the game works pretty well, and had I planned better, I probably would have done better in the end. That being said, I still think we should switch the FS/B with the RC/SC to make it even more enjoyable. :)