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Jeyoon Jung wrote on Sun, Nov 7, 2021 09:05 AM UTC:

Also, after re-reading and translating the whole script, I wonder: what happens if White moves his spearman to block the other spearman? The script says that the spearman must be moved forward first, so is that move illegal? I'm starting to suspect that the author did not playtest this game...

I originally based this article on the research that another Korean did. So rereading the script and translating it made me see the ambiguity much clearer. Because of the way Chinese script is written, which means almost no structure in sentences at all, it's hard to make sense of the text. For example, the description for the ambush is written like "no capture no start/go". There is a ton of ambiguity because of this, and the few Koreans that researched it disagree a lot. I really need a reliable translation source.

Regarding the ambush, I think that however the text is interpreted the piece just seems like bad design. Having a piece that only defends 8 points and does nothing else or have that piece move only when the opponent blunders doesn't seem like a good piece at all. The only good thing this piece has is the fact that it doesn't have a passthrough space, as it is the only leaper that doesn't have it mentioned. Some say that its movement handicap actually means that it cannot capture nor be captured, but why would you name it the ambush anyways if it cannot attack? Maybe in practical play we should just make it a normal/lame Camel.


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