duck chess
I want a piece that can push other pieces, friendly or not
Unending has a bunch of piece-pushing (and you must get enemies to push each other for you to survive)!
I’d go with a more recent classic from Age of Empires, the monk and its “wololo” ability to convert enemies to become your unit. To keep it balanced, maybe it should only be able to convert certain pieces and taking more than 2 turns to complete its conversion as to give the opponent a chance to counter its special move.
EDIT: Totally off topic,but..
I just found out that if you put an evoker in minecraft next to a blue sheep, it’ll do the wololo sound and convert it to a red sheep.
The Schemer, moves like a King, but attacks like a Queen. That way it only moves around the board slowly, until it can strike. Escape is tricky as it can’t move fast when not attacking, so it needs to enlist the support of other pieces to cover it’s moves.
It should start in place of the King’s bishop, whispering intreague in his ear.
The Landlord: any square it touches becomes blocked and can no longer be used in the match. It can start from any square and then move to any square adjacent to any square in its domain.
it starts out only being able to move every x turns, but as it gains squares, it speeds up
Exponentially!
There was a chess roguelike I can’t remember the name of that actually had a piece like this, except it was a big duck. It was very, very powerful.
Passant is the only chess roguelike I know, is that it?
As written the bureaucrat would be useful in preventing stalemate, which isn’t accurate since bureaucrats cause stalemates.
You can call it Vogon Chess.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits. On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer.
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t!
My ears! My eyes!
The Oligarch
While still standing, can force any non-pawn, non-oligarch piece on the opposite side to preform one move on their choice per turn.
The Landlord
Can claim any spot on the board as their own displacing the existing piece there and forcing it to move. If the piece has no viable move, they are just culled.
Both of these are waaaaaay to strong. Landlord just “culls” the Queen first turn. Or why not just the king?
Oligarch may also may just end in repeated moves. White uses oligarch to move black piece to bad position. Black moves same piece to good position again. One round wasted without any change to board.
Also, chess is based on the premise that you have to move a piece every turn and if you can’t, the game is a draw. Both of your pieces work by not moving.
The Heir. Moves like a queen, but only captures as a Knight. Takes the place of the bishop of your choice at the beginning of the game.
If we are modding chess.
Make board 10x10 add two pawns, and add a prince and princess.
Cross between king/knight/pawn and queen/pawn.
Prince moves like knight but only into an unoccupied square, takes like a king, but only moves forward like a pawn, can move back one square when taking.
Princess moves like a queen but only forward, like a pawn.
A piece that can capture pieces as if they have not moved a turn ago
The sniper.
- It moves like a king.
- It replaces one of the pawns on the board.
- If in any direction it has no more than one allied piece directly in front of it (cover), then at least (two? three?) unoccupied spaces between that ally and an enemy piece, it can take aim at an enemy piece.
- The next turn, if those conditions are still true, it can fire, capturing the target piece.
- An enemy piece adjacent to the target piece that could move into the line of fire can be sacrificed to take the bullet instead, though.
Intriguing, but does it have to have a meat shield?
It could probably either have to have a meat shield or have to take one turn to aim before firing but not both
This is somewhat similar to cannons from xiangqi, which move like rooks but can only capture by leaping over another piece on the line of attack.
The Trebuchet…
non-attacking movement is limited to one square,
it cannot attack for one turn after moving or attacking,
it can attack any piece that is exactly 5 squares away,
it returns to the square it attacks from
Does it count as 5 squares away if its 4 in one direction and 3 perpendicular to that?
Has anyone ever made something like a uh, sort of stamina/mana system for chess?
Like what I mean is, both players start with say 10 move/logistics points.
Different pieces cost different amounts of move/logistics points to move, and then uh, your move point pool replenishes by some amount on your next turn, maybe by some calculation of getting back more points the less units you have on the board.
You could also make that more nuts by allowing multiple units to be move in one player turn, with some kind of climbing cost penalty for each move after the first.
So you could blitz, but then basically be stunlocked for your next turn.
Why a stamina pool? Why not individual unit stamina? If a 6/6-stamina bishop flies 6 tiles across the board in a single turn, then it can’t move until the next turn; it gradually regains its own energy by +2 spaces/turn, back up to 6.
You could certainly do that digitally no prob, but for an actual tabletop game… i dunno, feels too sacreligious to me to just straight up turn chess into a tactics combat game, lol.
I like the idea of a simple rule set that is easy enough to keep track of, but also allows a wide variety of possible strategies within it.
I think keeping the … stamina pool or whatever, shared and common to the player, well it simplifies an ongoing irl game’s tabulation as compared to keeping track of all units, and its also more like…
You are the commander, and you are managing the logistics of a whole army.
This is why I couldn’t settle on the terminology… maybe ‘command points’ would be a better way to phrase it.
Oh, okay, yeah, that makes sense! And yeah, I was thinking that would make it closer to a computer game…
this feels pretty similar to what you’re describing https://youtu.be/y7VtSK23_Jg
Edit: for those who don’t want to click youtube, the person designs a chess board to play real-time chess. each piece has a movement cooldown enforced by the board which uses magnets to restrict you from moving pieces while they are on cooldown.
Well thats fucking neat on an engineering level alone, damn!
