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Ant Chess

Each player begins in a corner with one queen and three pawns. Your goal is to eliminate all of the other queen(s)

* You receive a pawn for every queen each turn.
* For every 8 pawns in your colony you may receive a knight instead of a pawn.
* promote pawn to queen to receive more than one piece per turn.

I'm a little concerned that the standard queen is too powerful of a piece. Ant queens are more like Kings generally, so there might also need to be a rule that queens move like queens if just promoted... but then after that they drop their wings and can only move like kings.

Mans R

@futurebird They get one queen move, then become limited?

@mansr

Yeah I think that would make sense. Queens can be boring pieces in some ways.

(pawn is my favorite piece.)

@futurebird @mansr Perhaps something like Shogi where you turn the pieces in various ways to mark the change in movement rules.
(it is way over 40 years since I played it so I remember no details).

@futurebird @mansr one free teleport to any square on the board, then afterwards move like a knight since they're bigger?