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    Default Re: If a chess company would produce SC related chess sets would you buy them?

    It would be a cool thing to have as I currently don't have a chess set. And maybe I could get into playing chess more often.

    As for DemolitionSquid's suggestion, I would get the Protoss Twilight Messiah set or one of the Zerg sets, probably the Queen of Blades set. I want my cute little zerglings!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarov View Post
    It would be a cool thing to have as I currently don't have a chess set. And maybe I could get into playing chess more often.

    As for DemolitionSquid's suggestion, I would get the Protoss Twilight Messiah set or one of the Zerg sets, probably the Queen of Blades set. I want my cute little zerglings!
    I actually meant "set" as in all 6 factions + double sided board (two different tilesets) for like 200$.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid View Post
    I actually meant "set" as in all 6 factions + double sided board (two different tilesets) for like 200$.
    Ah. Then I'm not sure I'd do that. Maybe if they had a deal where you could pick whatever two sets you wanted for [insert price here]. Knowing me, someone would try to steal one or two of the sets if I bought all six.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarov View Post
    Ah. Then I'm not sure I'd do that. Maybe if they had a deal where you could pick whatever two sets you wanted for [insert price here]. Knowing me, someone would try to steal one or two of the sets if I bought all six.
    That could work too. 2 factions + board for X$, each additional faction for Y$.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid View Post
    Zerg - Queen of Blades
    Pawn - Zergling
    Rook - Hydralisk
    Bishop - Defiler
    Knight - Mutalisk
    Queen - Ultralisk
    King - Kerrigan

    Zerg - Purity Of Essence
    Pawn - Zergling
    Rook - Hydralisk
    Bishop - Defiler
    Knight - Mutalisk
    Queen - Ultralisk
    King - Overmind
    Those are so screwed up every-which-way it's not even funny. Hydra as Rook? Muta as Knight? Ultra as Queen? Ugh.

    Zerg - Queen of Blades
    Pawn - Zergling
    Rook - Lurker
    Bishop - Hydralisk
    Knight - Mutalisk
    Queen - Kerrigan
    King - Overlord

    Zerg - Purity of Bodily Fluids
    Pawn - Zergling
    Rook - Ultralisk
    Bishop - Hydralisk
    Knight - Mutalisk
    Queen - Queen
    King - Overmind



    As for Protoss, you just gave Aldaris a Dark Templar. Lorelol. I'm not sure why you insist on each set having the exact same units for the same functions. Sort of defeats the purpose of quite a few of these (ie Twilight Messiah).
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    Quote Originally Posted by pure.Wasted View Post
    Those are so screwed up every-which-way it's not even funny. Hydra as Rook? Muta as Knight? Ultra as Queen? Ugh.

    Zerg - Queen of Blades
    Pawn - Zergling
    Rook - Lurker
    Bishop - Hydralisk
    Knight - Mutalisk
    Queen - Kerrigan
    King - Overlord

    Zerg - Purity of Bodily Fluids
    Pawn - Zergling
    Rook - Ultralisk
    Bishop - Hydralisk
    Knight - Mutalisk
    Queen - Queen
    King - Overmind



    As for Protoss, you just gave Aldaris a Dark Templar. Lorelol. I'm not sure why you insist on each set having the exact same units for the same functions. Sort of defeats the purpose of quite a few of these (ie Twilight Messiah).
    Lol. I didn't even notice that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pure.Wasted View Post
    Those are so screwed up every-which-way it's not even funny. Hydra as Rook? Muta as Knight? Ultra as Queen? Ugh.
    I chose my units very carefully.

    The Pawns are all obvious.
    The Rooks are all staple, iconic units. Rooks charge forward.
    The Bishops are spellcasters. Bishops travel diagonally, subversively.
    The Knights all fly. This is based on the strange L shape movemt given by the piece.
    The Queen is the most powerful unit for each race. Given that it can travel anywhere on the chess board.
    The King is represented by the most powerful leader of the faction. Gender is irrelevant.

    Quote Originally Posted by pure.Wasted View Post
    As for Protoss, you just gave Aldaris a Dark Templar. Lorelol. I'm not sure why you insist on each set having the exact same units for the same functions. Sort of defeats the purpose of quite a few of these (ie Twilight Messiah).
    I did not give anyone a DT. Twilight Messiah is named solely for the Tassadar piece because that's what Chris Metzen called him. It is not so he can have a DT instead of a HT. The same race factions are identical so as to avoid board confusion, except for the king pieces.

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    I've been asking for this for like 5 years.

    I cant believe it hasn't been done already.
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    Raynors Raiders: Revised
    Pawn: Marine
    Rook: Vulture
    Bishop: Siege Tank
    Knight: Wraith
    Queen: Hyperion
    King: Raynor

    Sorry, but Vultures seem more like "Raynor's Raiders" than Ghosts, and if you're going to have a Battlecruiser, you might as well have the Hyperion.

    United Earth Directorate: Special Edition
    Pawn: Marine
    Rook: Goliath
    Bishop: Valkyrie
    Knight: Ghost
    Queen: Battlecruiser
    King: Gerard Dugaulle

    Let's face it, the off-kilter unit pathing of the Knight allows for some sneaky shenanigans, and the fact that the bishop can go clear across the map is befitting of an air unit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid View Post
    I chose my units very carefully.
    I don't doubt this. I doubt the criteria you chose by.

    The Rooks are all staple, iconic units. Rooks charge forward.
    How do you define "staple, iconic units"? Vultures are arguably as popular, in pros' hands, as Tanks. Lurkers, over-all, are seen in battle about as often as Hydralisks. Ultralisks are seen WAY more often than Hydralisks.

    I'd go with something a lot more objective for Rook, such as... long range, splash ground (Tank/Lurker/Reaver) or high HP (Tank/Ultralisk/Archon). I prefer the former.

    The Bishops are spellcasters. Bishops travel diagonally, subversively.
    In a vacuum I'd agree with you, but... the thing is, you can only throw X units at a chess board. There's a limit. Let's say one of the criteria you picked included Firebats on Terrans, we wouldn't just agree to it, would we? Like the Ghost it's unusable... unlike the Ghost, it doesn't somehow manage to maintain a huge fanbase anyway.

    I'd rather start from the place of "what units would we like to include?" and work backwards from there to make sense of the criteria that'll get us there.

    The Knights all fly. This is based on the strange L shape movemt given by the piece.
    I went with you on this one. Although either Vulture or Goliath seem more intuitively correct as a Terran Knight, that leaves out air units completely... and that's kind of weird.

    The Queen is the most powerful unit for each race. Given that it can travel anywhere on the chess board.
    The King is represented by the most powerful leader of the faction. Gender is irrelevant.
    And this is where it gets weird. It just feels right to have Kerrigan as the Queen, period. Not only does it represent her status as the Queen, it symbolizes her power and her willingness to get her own hands dirty. Jim Raynor, inside a suit or out of it, is just one man -- he is vulnerable.

    Kerrigan is much more than one man. She is twenty man!

    From there I think my selection of Overlord makes some sense (it's helpless but controls other units), and Queen for the Overmind... also just intuitively felt right.

    I did not give anyone a DT. Twilight Messiah is named solely for the Tassadar piece because that's what Chris Metzen called him. It is not so he can have a DT instead of a HT. The same race factions are identical so as to avoid board confusion, except for the king pieces.
    Corsair. Dark Templar tech. Aldaris. Would not use.

    If someone's willing to go through the trouble of re-learning what chess piece is represented by the Hydralisk, I think they can take another 30 seconds to figure out the difference between two sets. When in Rome...
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