🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jan 21, 2011 11:53 PM UTC:
I was just reviewing the rules to make sure that my Game Courier preset covered everything, and I noticed this:
Each chief may activate 1 piece per turn. It may activate itself or another chief.
This makes things much more complicated than I first imagined. I was working with the assumption that any piece close enough to one of its Chieftains could move, and moves were limited by the number of Chieftains. But if I read this correctly, the preset would have to keep track not only of which pieces have moved but which Chieftains activated their movement. This will make the notation more complex. Alternately, it will make it much more complicated to calculate the legality of moves, and I haven't begun to figure out what kind of complicated algorithm that will take.
I was just reviewing the rules to make sure that my Game Courier preset covered everything, and I noticed this:
This makes things much more complicated than I first imagined. I was working with the assumption that any piece close enough to one of its Chieftains could move, and moves were limited by the number of Chieftains. But if I read this correctly, the preset would have to keep track not only of which pieces have moved but which Chieftains activated their movement. This will make the notation more complex. Alternately, it will make it much more complicated to calculate the legality of moves, and I haven't begun to figure out what kind of complicated algorithm that will take.