RicOlie_2 said:
Perhaps the best option would just to change their orientation so that they face the same way my pieces did. Of course, you'd have to mark them differently than the other pieces, but I can't imagine that would be anymore confusing than promoting them.
Suits me.
No, once His Majesty gets motivated enough to make a move he's gonna do it...thanks all the same...
As for promotion zones, we could shrink it to just the last row or allow pieces to reverse out without promoting or teleport them back to square one...anything to avoid the dead ending bit. Without something of the sort few of our pieces caught below the garden have much strategic value.
Also, if this is post-nuclear my side must now be zombies...or mutants...or mutant zombies!
RicOlie_2 said:
As your two armies were fighting over the course of an undetermined, but certainly very lengthy period of time, technology advanced to the point of the creation of nuclear missiles. After much careful discussion, the leaders of a certain country (here unnamed to protect its identity) agreed to intervene in your war and launch a nuclear missile against Post Praetorian.
Their move is NMx10mn, 9lm, 9no, P11lm, S8kl, P10ij, P11jk
Checkmate. Please note that in this case, there was no capture, but rather complete annihilation. Congratulations to the winning party and condolences to the remnants of the less fortunate army.
In related news, Ric has been grounded from his nuclear launch contr--...er, his computer indefinitely.
darth_ender said:
I have to say, the knights are by far the most annoyingly useless pieces in this game. They are so weak and so sideways, they are hard to use effectively.
It's all that heavy armor...all they can manage is a crab-walk.
| K-10mn |
darth_ender said:
+R-9fg check
I've just sent my rookruitment officer into your camp. Looking for some young, impressionable, hairy Amazons to join my army. ;)
"Yes, he's at it again..." goes the general murmuring in the village.
| K-10kl |
RicOlie_2 said:
Generation gap methinks..."JK" means "just kidding" in present day teenage lingo.
Yes, us old codgers remember its advent during the flip phone era of the Gen Y crowd...
On a side note, it is my real move.
| K[castle]9jk |
| R-9no |
I vote we keep the promotion zone as it is. It still requires a piece detour to take advantage of it, which can take a while for some.
It can be like a pilgrimage to Mecca or something...
RicOlie_2 said:
Although all pawns start out being able to go towards either of the other two promotion zones. I would say that it is no longer a promotion zone, because there is no longer anything defending it, thus making it too easy to promote. All one has to do right now is paratroop or move a piece there and it is promoted, which is too easy.
True, they start out that way, but we are considering the present moment. It's only alternate purpose is thus to become a deadzone to any of the pieces too close to pull away.
I'm not sure if that adds greatly to the strategy right now.
I considered it should no longer work, but if that were to be the case, all pawns pointed in that direction will be doomed.
| +P9tu |
RicOlie_2 said:
Post Praetorian said:
Ah, I see you are not used to fighting Amazonians! Yes, they make fine warriors--but don't steal their hairbrush!
I never would have thought the Amazonians were so good at sharing as to have only a single hairbrush between them!
Well, they are extremely well trained...and who said there were only two of them?
Well we did get ours from a travelling circus...
| L-9lm |
Ah, I see you are not used to fighting Amazonians! Yes, they make fine warriors--but don't steal their hairbrush!
| +P-8st |
| P6mn-P7no |
It was just the rook...and he says he only did it on Sundays...
P*9rs should have been
|
Sorry about that.
darth_ender said:
P*13vw
Ric, I don't know that I should say anything. I don't think allies are supposed to suggest moves, but instead simply just have to coordinate moves based on position and logic. Thus, I'd rather not kibitz. I'll tell you when the game is over. It wasn't true anyway, I just thought it was.
Post, I'll get you, my pretty, and your little rook too!
We had no idea what our good rook had been up to. He has been ordered to stop dressing up as of this instant.
| P*12ij |
darth_ender said:
L*7xy
Need to get my extra rook back, Post. Care to oblige? ;)
Sure...come and get it...
| R-8mn |
| P*9rs |
| Gx10st |
| P10kl-11lm |
| G-9rs |
| P-8qr |
RicOlie_2 said:
I should have seen that coming. Lx10uv
Look, I might be missing something, but which Lance did the gobbling? L11tu or L14yz?
| G-9pq |