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Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Oct 12, 2018 07:28 PM UTC:

And balance is the primary goal but to me the flavor is what bring the spice :)!

Again, I don't think changing BD to BnD changes the flavor or removes any spice.  Do you?  You seem clearly opposed to this change, but I do not understand why.

I don't say CWDA needs rescuing it is a good game.

On this we must disagree.  Sure, it is playable.  It is one of the most popular games on Game Courier so certainly people can play it and have fun.  But if the armies are way out of balance, as it has become clear that they are, then it fails at its stated goal.  If the game were played and studied even more as time goes on, people would learn exactly how to exploit the unbalance and the game would no longer be playable.