I'm watching some queens vs griffins matches and I remembered what you've said about most of the power of the pieces coming from empty board mobility (Griffin mobility=27/25 Queen mobility). I think we are for an exception here as the griffin has a slightly higher empty board mobility than the queen but in the early game gets hindered much more easily by having only four squares nearby. The queen also has 3 forward direction as opposed to two, for what that worths. From what I'm seeing the queen is roughly half a pawn above the griffin in apothecary 1 (as is above the marshall in apothecary 2, nice to know for different armies maybe). Larger boards will probably provide even more interesting encounters between the 2.
Weakly related: An even weirder case of fluctuations along a game of ratios of pieces, I think is rook vs nightrider. As the NN is clearly superior in the early game the R is superior due to its traits in the late game.
H.G.,
I'm watching some queens vs griffins matches and I remembered what you've said about most of the power of the pieces coming from empty board mobility (Griffin mobility=27/25 Queen mobility). I think we are for an exception here as the griffin has a slightly higher empty board mobility than the queen but in the early game gets hindered much more easily by having only four squares nearby. The queen also has 3 forward direction as opposed to two, for what that worths. From what I'm seeing the queen is roughly half a pawn above the griffin in apothecary 1 (as is above the marshall in apothecary 2, nice to know for different armies maybe). Larger boards will probably provide even more interesting encounters between the 2.
Weakly related: An even weirder case of fluctuations along a game of ratios of pieces, I think is rook vs nightrider. As the NN is clearly superior in the early game the R is superior due to its traits in the late game.