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Jeremy Lennert wrote on Wed, May 22, 2013 07:17 PM UTC:
If your main goal is just to incorporate "hit-and-run" attacks, you could
put them on a less powerful piece.  For the Crown also has a piece called
the Charger that moves as a R3 but can "overrun" an enemy piece and
continue moving up to its maximum range (and even capture multiple pieces
in a row).  I've seen a couple of other variants with similar pieces.

I estimated its value in a FIDE context as ~6 pawns, but that hasn't been
tested and might be far off.  If you happened to produce any new
information on its value, I'd be interested.

(Trivia:  The last expansion for For the Crown originally had another unit
called the Behemoth with the same "overrun" mechanic, but on a Q3 instead
of a R3.  It got scrapped because it made it too easy to obtain a perpetual
check.)

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