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Man and Beast 06: The Heavy Brigade. Systematic naming of symmetric and forward-only non-coprime radial pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 07:22 AM UTC:
The shortest-range (in terms of perimeters) amphibian radial pieces on each geometry are as follows:
	Square-cell
Ferz+Trebuchet (Frog)
Dabbaba+Trebuchet (Toad)
Elephant+Trebuchet (Newt)
Trebuchet+Cobbler (is this by any chance called Salamander?)
Trebuchet+Commuter
Then come Ferz/Dabbaba/Elephant/Trebuchet/Tripper/Cobbler/Commuter plus Quibbler
	Cubic
Ferz+Trebuchet (Frog)
Viceroy+Trebuchet (currently Trevi, could be renamed)
Dabbaba+Trebuchet (Toad)
Elephant+Trebuchet (Newt)
Eunuch+Trebuchet (currently unnamed, could be renamed)
Viceroy+Tripper (currently Trivium, could be renamed)
Then come Ferz/Dabbaba/Elephant plus Zombie, followed by Trebuchet/Zombie plus Cobbler
	Hex
Viceroy+Dabbaba (currently Vicbaba)
Dabbaba+Trebuchet (Toad)
Viceroy+Cobbler (currently unnamed)
Trebuchet+Cobbler (is this by any chance called Salamander?)
Then come Viceroy/Dabbaba/Eunuch/Trebuchet/Zombie/Cobbler/Corpse plus Quibbler.
	As you can see, cubic ones mount up far quicker than hex ones, so I am inclining to favour cubic over hex for amphibian naming. I also note that pieces like the square-cell Pterodactyl (Tripper+Quitter+Triquibbler), in that being unbound requires all three components, are much shorter-range on cubic boards. The shortest-range hex one is, I think, Eunuch+Skeleton+Biquibbler but the shortest-range cubic one is Dabbaba+Tripper+Zombie.