by Palantir30 » Thu May 05, 2005 9:46 am
This sounds like an incredibly great idea, but I think it would suffer from the same thing the Great War did- how are you going to set teams up to be marginally equal? At least with this scenario you'd have a constant number of people to worry about (30) The chessplayers would be the Kings. There are some serious issues unresolved by the rules. If I were writing them, they'd include at least the following:
Pawns: Armorless. One blue weapon or one skirmisher's length spear (6ft or so)
Rooks: Armor counted in all hit locations whether the individual fighter has any or not. Any weapon combination except ranged, but two handers favored.
Knights: Sword and Board, fully armored up to what the fighter actually has.
Bishops: Flail (Mace/warhammer preferred) and board, no armor.
Queen: Any weapon combination including ranged Armored up to what the fiter actually has.
King*: Any weapon combination except ranged. Armored up what the fighter actually has.
En * is not allowed.
*King rules:
The two players calling the moves will play each King.
When the King initiates combat, he cannot be killed. If the King initiates combat and loses the fight, the King loses his turn and returns to the space he was in before the combat. If losing his turn places him in Checkmate, Stalemate2 rule applies.
Stalemate1 rule of 50 cumulative turns without taking a piece or forcing a checkmate still applies.
Stalemate2 rule where a King is not in Check but can make no moves which would not place him in Check, this is not a Stalemate. Opposing King chooses any of the fighters which has any of the 8 squares around the King "covered" for the King killing battle.
Checkmate: The King may not surrender to Checkmate. The King must fight against the piece holding him in Checkmate. If this is multiple pieces, then the opposing King shooses which.
I think I like Barahir's big squared board better, to fight in the actual squares. Ora's might be more logistically feasible though, 1 square meter per board square, then a 10 ft by 10 ft "fighting area" that each fighter moves to when engaged. That would certainly make for less chalk/flour/whatever.
**Optional rule: If it is Black's turn and Black chooses to attack a White peice, All Black pieces which could attack that piece this turn may participate in combat. The exception to this is if the defending piece is the King, then only one attacker is permitted.
***Question that need answering: Should or should not wounds carry over after battles?
More later if I think of more. Can you tell that I'd love to participate and/or help with the setup?