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Well a rank full of Pawnlike pieces can be disadvantageous in a game dominated by short-range pieces. This is the reason why I gave 3d Minishogi a subvariant with a setup phase. This phase involves reducing the size of each player's front rank. Starting with Black, each player removes one of their Princelings from a file in which the other player also has a Princeling, until only three files have both players' Princelings on it. A Revergent hex Los Alamos with the following array: would be similarly problematic without some kind of rule such as 'Black's first move cannot be a capturing one'. Even then I suspect that more would need doing to make a decent game of it.