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Daniil Frolov wrote on Fri, Jan 17, 2014 08:33 AM UTC:
Tonight i saw one unusual chess-like in board game in dream. Despite two facts, that i'm enthusiastic variantist, and that i often see unusual colorful dreams, this is, as far as i remember, the first time i see a chess variant in my dream.
It had similarities with Armies of Faith series by Charles Gilman, and with European chess (good game, bad name) by Alex Nisnevich and company.
Board was a World map with hexagonal tiling. There was supposed to be many players, each representing certain country or important political force. Players could get into the game or drop it upon losing, and it represented various historical events.
Game started in ancient times - with Greece, Egypt, China and other ancient civilizitations, and proceed up to modern times, and even the future. Archers changes to musketeers, musketeers to machine-gunners...
Once civil war happens in certain country, new player gets into game and takes part of this country's pieces. So that, once Britain colonize American continent, USA player appears, and a few phases later, part of his pieces wil be contolled by the Southern Confederacy player, and then he'll control them again.
...Or not, and the Southern player will continue game instead... Yes, alternative historical timelines could occur. If something "goes wrong" in the beggining of game, peculiar epochs, like "Ancient-Greek-Style Cyberpunk", happens.
Of course, the world and the history was shown sketchy in this game - only the most important countries and events. It's still chess, after all.
Pieces were shaped like Lewis-chessmen, but colored, and in costumes of various countries and epochs. And there supposed to be enough pieces in set, for all epochs and all possible timelines...

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