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A queen-moves/king-capture piece is basically an Ultima Withdrawer in FIDE
garb. It suffers from the same sorts of problems; the main one being that
it's annoying, in my opinion. It's like arming a tank with a pistol.
God's own speed, hits like a baby. Cut it down to a 3-square queen that
captures like a king, and you've got a much more reasonable piece, again
in my opinion, for a Napoleonics game. 
Tom Hartley's NAPOLEONIC CHESS looks interesting, but I'd love to
hear/see how it plays. I'd also love to play a Napoleonic board wargame
against him sometime; his variants reek of wargame; I like that in a
designer. But I'm still iffy about the play quality of his game. I'd
like to make a comment, but there's no way to attach it to the game page
that I saw. I'll look again.
The Peter Hatch Evil Horde army is another interesting-looking shortrange
army with heavy rook tendencies. The Q-K piece fits better here
thematically. 
But I, like David, question how well the armies were balanced by
playtesting before the game was posted. Be interesting to hear about play
results from both games.