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Vanguard Chess. Game on 16x16 board, with 48 pieces per player. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Mon, Oct 2, 2023 01:35 PM UTC:

OK, I have the basics of the GC preset in place. I was able to figure out the worst problems on my own (all it took was making sure the two-letter piece codes were in all caps). Things I still need to figure out how to do (that I can identify right away) and/or get help with:

  • Fix the Helepolis move.
  • Require promotions of Pawn -> Knight, Soldier -> Helepolis, and Sergeant -> Lancer upon reaching the back row.
  • Arrange for Prince and Princess to promote to immediately replace a captured King or Queen (respectively).

Once those are done, I can:

  • Decide whether to make new graphics for the Berserker, Bowman, Chancellor, Prince, Princess, Sargeant, Soldier, and/or Spy; and, if I decide in favor, actually do it and send the work to Fergus (unless, of course, someone beats me to it).
  • Write out piece move text (using the [pc] shortcode). (Side note: Where does this go?)
  • Put text of other rules into the Rules section.
  • Take care of anything else I've forgotten.