Cross chess w/ stratego and you get Pawns.
Though most of my games are party oriented, I think that there is a small audience for this. Basically each pawn has a unique, hidden special ability. So I need eight individual special abilities.... here is what I have so far.
1. Paratrooper. This pawn can move to any open space on the board.
2. Bomb. If this pawn is on the second rank, any peice capturing it is removed from the game.
3. King
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