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Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Sat, May 3, 2008 05:24 PM UTC:
H.G.M. wrote: ... Defending each other for Archbishops is useless (in the absence of opponet Q, C or A), as defending Archbishop in the face of Knight attacks is of zero use. So the factthey can do it is not worth anything. ...

Now you have got it. The main reason is the missing of counterparts of equal (or bigger) value. That is, what makes any effective covering impossible. And this is a payload within an (I confess very extremely designed) game between different armies.

P.S.: any covering of A also by P is useless then ...