The Starbound Sliders have a slight advantage over the Remarkable Rookies, the Remarkable Rookies have a slight advantage over the Fabulous FIDEs, but the Fabulous FIDEs have a slight advantage over the Starbound Sliders! The Colorbound Cobblers and Nutty Knights are both stronger than the others if you're a computer, but the Cobblers struggle to deliver checkmate and the Knights are very vulnerable to blunders, making them the weakest armies at low skill levels. One thing I found quite interesting is a sort of "rock paper scissors" dynamic between the Starbound Sliders, Remarkable Rookies and Fabulous FIDEs. This makes the Starbound Sliders just as strong as the Fabulous FIDEs, which is pretty weak by CwDA standards. Fianchettoing the Sealed Boar is an especially good defensive resource. That said, it's ability to defend an entire rank as a minor piece makes it reasonably useful on defence, which is vital on a team as slow as this one. It has to go around the pawns to attack them from the side or behind. It also cannot attack pawns that are ahead of it, as its only forward moves are the same as the pawn's captures. The Sealed Boar is very slow to develop, as it can only go forward one square at a time. If you can put a Lancer behind a passed pawn, your opponent is in trouble! It can protect the centre using its King moves once it gets there (though this does take a while from b8 and g8), but its main ability is that it is by far the best pawn escort of all the minor pieces. The Lancer is quite strong as far as minor pieces go. The backwards bishop moves make it slightly better at retreating, at the cost of being unable to go straight back home after an opportunistic forward move. The Star is very similar to the Rook in properties, purpose and value. Defence and trading is the name of the game here! Much like the Rook itself, the Starbound Sliders are weak in the opening but strong in the endgame. No rule changes from standard Chess with Different Armies Notes The Queen already fits the theme of unlimited range peices that aren't colorbound, so she is unchanged. They are inspired by the Side Movers from Chu Shogi and their promoted counterparts, the Free Boars. They move sideways like Rooks, or 1 square diagonally. In place of the Bishops, there are Sealed Boars. They move like Kings, but they can also go forward as far as they like, like the Lance. In place of the Knights, there are Lancers. They move forwards or sideways like Rooks, but backwards like Bishops. In this setup, white is playing with the Starbound Sliders, and black is playing with another army I made: the Heroic Hybrids. However, they also inherit the Rook's weaknesses: it's inability to jump and slow development. While the Remarkable Rookies focus on the orthogonal nature of the Rook's moves, the Starbound Sliders' moves take inspiration from the Rook's strengths: infinite range and not being colorbound. The Starbound SlidersĪnother new unofficial army for Chess with Different Armies, the Starbound Sliders are a different take on a Rook-based army. This page is written by the game's inventor, Andrew L Smith. Check out Wildebeest Chess, our featured variant for May, 2023.
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