Homemade Musketeer Chess Set
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:04 pm
I love Musketeer Chess, and probably have too much time on my hands. The pieces are beautiful but it has been a very long time in waiting for additional new designs. With that in mind, and inspired by Zied and the Chinese version of Chess/Xiangqi (another game I am more fond of than I am good at), I created Xiangqi-style Musketeer pieces. They are cheap to make, being wooden counters rather than 3D figural pieces. This also makes them rather easy to carry, and very robust (my Elephant pieces have each lost a tusk since I started using them a while back).
I now have 40 Musketeer Chess pieces, a couple of which are my own design, other slightly modified in appearance from the icons produced in Zied's Board Painter tool, but not greatly. Because white doesn't really work with label printing and stickering onto wood, I have imitated Xiangqi and used black and red as the colours of each side. Some pieces are brand new, will post their move sets a bit later.
Piece names running from left to right, top to bottom:
1) Amazon, 2) Archbishop, 3) Archer, 4) Axeman, 5) Bear, 6) Bombardier, 7) Bull, 8) Cannon, 9) Catapult, 10) Chameleon
11) Champion, 12) Chancellor, 13) Dragon, 14) Elephant, 15) Fortress, 16) Gorilla, 17) Griffin, 18) Guard, 19) Hawk, 20) Hippo
21) Jester, 22) Kangaroo, 23) Leopard, 24) Lion, 25) Mammoth, 26) Musketeer, 27) Oryx, 28) Phoenix, 29) Rhino, 30) Scythe
31) Siege Engine, 32) Squirrel, 33) Tiger, 34) Tower, 35) Trebuchet, 36) Unicorn, 37) Warpig, 38) Wizard, 39) Wolf, 40) Zebra
I now have 40 Musketeer Chess pieces, a couple of which are my own design, other slightly modified in appearance from the icons produced in Zied's Board Painter tool, but not greatly. Because white doesn't really work with label printing and stickering onto wood, I have imitated Xiangqi and used black and red as the colours of each side. Some pieces are brand new, will post their move sets a bit later.
Piece names running from left to right, top to bottom:
1) Amazon, 2) Archbishop, 3) Archer, 4) Axeman, 5) Bear, 6) Bombardier, 7) Bull, 8) Cannon, 9) Catapult, 10) Chameleon
11) Champion, 12) Chancellor, 13) Dragon, 14) Elephant, 15) Fortress, 16) Gorilla, 17) Griffin, 18) Guard, 19) Hawk, 20) Hippo
21) Jester, 22) Kangaroo, 23) Leopard, 24) Lion, 25) Mammoth, 26) Musketeer, 27) Oryx, 28) Phoenix, 29) Rhino, 30) Scythe
31) Siege Engine, 32) Squirrel, 33) Tiger, 34) Tower, 35) Trebuchet, 36) Unicorn, 37) Warpig, 38) Wizard, 39) Wolf, 40) Zebra