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Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2017 11:48 PM UTC:

The choices you made seem alright to me, but if you might prefer the figurines to be even more like the piece types you want, I just took a look at the Alfaerie: Many piece set in the Diagram Designer, and I'm pretty sure all 16 piece types listed are depicted within the first 150 (or so) piece type figurines offered up when the Alfaerie: Many set finishes loading. You might look again, more closely, if you wish. Note that only 1 or 2 letters are used to label a figurine quite often, so there's a bigger chance you might have missed something you wanted. If you're in doubt, you can right-click your mouse on a figurine to check it's 'Properties' and then it will show, among other things, a longer name tag for the figurine. For example, one version of the gryphon (sp?) piece (is this the same as Griffin or Griffon?; the latter is in the CVP Piececlopedia and has the same figurine there) is labelled 'Gy' and looks like an odd animal head, while another choice for it shows 4 rooks linked diagonally, all in one figurine. That's assuming I've got how that piece type moves correctly. There's at least one choice for an Aanca, i.e. 4 bishops linked all in one figurine. A fool is labelled 'Fo'.

Kevin


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