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David, you always did like the small boards... ;-) 16x24 is a nice size to
play on. I'm almost done realigning the pieces around on it, and I'll
save it for later developments as I'm pretty committed to minimum side
lengths of 20 squares for the example superlarge. I'd probably drop the
corner fort feature on the 'small' board, and maybe do something
interesting in the middle of each end; put a 'fort' with a few guards
and the king there, likely. Create a  sort of Eastern version, maybe.
Anyway, when I'm done putting this initial 16x24 board together, I'll
check the 'exclude' box and send you the URL for you to play around
with, too. Any ideas on how movement will work? Multi or single? Ranges? 
I still have to work on the intermediates, too. My first thought was
cut-down FIDE sliders. These pieces will work. I'm not as sure about
building up shortrange pieces. And I don't want to get into any tricky
stuff with pieces, no fancy captures or special powers, just 'capture as
you move, by replacement'. For a big game to be easily playable, the
parts need to be as simple as possible. That will probably always be the
hardest part of the design for me, staying simple enough for good/great
playability in the final product.