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H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Jan 2, 2015 05:54 PM UTC:
5-stepping never gets you to the 4 central squares on 8x8, right? When you start in the central 4 squares, the largest step you can make before hitting an edge is 4, so you would have no moves there.

BTW, the Color-bound Clobberers also feature a Phoenix (WA), which is not color bound.

How about 'Multi-path Marauders' as an army name?

I wonder if it would be possible to base a CwDA army on Team-Mate Chess. The latter is not really conformant with typical CwDA, because all the pieces are different, in stead of occurring in pairs. It also seems a no-no that it uses some pieces already occurring in other armies, in particular the Phoenix and the Knight. It might also be just a bit weaker than FIDE, while most CwDA armies are stronger.

[Edit] I got the following idea for a CwDA army based on the same philosophy as Team-Mate Chess, that no single piece should have mating potential, but which has the same composition in terms of pairs of light and heavy pieces, plus one super-piece, as regular CwDA armies:

The lame Gnu (NC) will serve as replacement for both Rooks; Team-Mate Chess uses the slightly weaker WN as the second Rook-class piece here, but I let this piece feature here in chiral form, having only the left-handed or right-handed Knight moves, so that it gets the strength of a minor. Of course it would occur as its mirror image on the other wing. The Queen-replacement will be Aanca, as in Team-Mate Chess, while the second pair of minors could either be Modern Elphant (FA) or Mortar (AG), to tune the strength. (Mortar is weaker).

It could be called: the Tricky Teamsters.

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