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7. Samurai. In his Man & Beasts articles, Charles Gilman proposes calling a (2,6) locust-capture leaper a Katana. And what do you get when you cross a Katana with a Knight? A Samurai, of course.
In part because of the Knight move, and in part because the Katana move represents a sort of "lightning step" attack, I'm assuming that the latter cannot be made unless there's a target to capture. Thus, that makes the Betza (I believe) NcafmC.
This piece is presented somewhat as an experiment, looking for a good way to represent a locust capture using Musketeer's Board Painter. The leap icon (in this case, with a "capture only" red X) shows the destination square, the straight arrow shows the overall movement, and the square where the captured peice would be is shaded black. Prompt feedback on this would be very helpful; I'll be using it to edit one of my unpublished submissions. Tomorrow's planned entry will be an extension of this one, and I'll implement whatever recommended changes seem right.
One nice thing with Board Painter is that I was able (for a change) to find the perfect icon for this piece: the crescent, turned 45° so the opening is straight up, like the crescent symbol on a samurai's helmet. A simpler version of the piece could have just the crescent, though for now the full helmet (with mask) will do.