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Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Mar 4, 2012 08:21 PM UTC:

I had not noticed this one yet (but I see it is recent). It looks indeed like an interesting and well-balanced army. You no doubt put the (value-wise) Rook replacement on the b-, g-files rather than in the corners to have all Pawns protected in the array. This could cause the problem that you are forced to develop it early in order to castle. But I guess the ability to develop them to d2/e2 (d7/e7) gives them a shelter that is relatively safe for attacks by the opponent's minors.

The Banshee seems a problematic piece, with its attack on g7. Would it be an idea to swap it with the King, so that it attacks b7 in stead? In the Nutters army, b7 is defended by the Colonel. There is another problem, though, namely that the Banshee also attacks a7. This Pawn is unprotected in the Clobberers army. And this problem cannot be solved by starting the Banshee on e1, because h7 is just as unprotected as a7.

These are of course really defects in the Nutters and Clobberers armies, leaving their Pawns unprotected. But as these armies are well-accepted, it becomes a bit difficult to integrate this army in a general CwDA environment. Otherwise it would be no trouble at all to configure Fairy-Max to play it: all pieces are quite regular Chess pieces, and even of high symmetry.