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- Can a piece subjected to mobile range expansion effect move by the actual tier as well as the one above, or only one above?
- Can a tier 3 piece have any effect when subjected to mobile range expansion effect?
- Can two mobile range expansion effects applied together and result a tier 1 piece to act by tier 3?
Why are the arrow, bronze, silver, gold using hiragana rather than the proper kanji of those stuff like in shogi? (In shogi, a pawn promoted to gold general uses the same hiragana mentioned there, but gungi has no promotion, just front/back. I also notice that all of the pieces that do have hiragana in gungi are the back side of the pawn, but I still think it might be better to use kanji there.)
For making the pieces, what you might do is make them one side black and one side white, and the front sides will have a border or something like that perhaps. Alternatively just make it like in shogi with all pieces the same color, and you might make the writing on the back side in red.
While researching something else, I ran across this discussion of "Gungi", a board game that appears in the anime Hunter x Hunter and figures in the plot: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=117295 It's apparently a chess variant with drops and pieces that may be stacked, likely inspired by shogi. The thread is about trying to figure out the rules from examples of play in the series (since the creator has never set them out explicitly). Somebody posted a link to a Tumblr post that presents a translation of a rule set a Japanese individual has come up with: http://hiromalo.tumblr.com/post/74510568781/rules-of-gungi . The rules are a bit fiddly (pieces have different movement abilities based on where they are placed in a stack, and many have special abilities) but it may be playable. Of course, it's not clear if those match the "official" rules in the series, or even if such rules actually exist, since the writer may have just been winging it with a vague idea of what sort of moves are possible. I'm not familiar with the series myself.
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