Charles Gilman wrote on Tue, Nov 30, 2004 09:49 AM UTC:
It would have been nice if Gergely Buglyó had posted his information while
I was still trying to find out! Still, better late than never. In the
context of pre-industrial armies the terms runner and messenger are fairly
interchangeable.
The variant with hex-prism cells and the described effect on the bishop
has now been posted
(http://www.chessvariants.org/hexagonal.dir/honeycomb.html).