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Hello, For actually a long while now I have this conundrum. I have used in the final form of my two initial apothecary games (apothecary Chess-classic and apothecary chess-modern) the two Capablanca pieces in the game classic and the two most obvious bent riders (usually called gryphon and manticore) in the modern game. A short while after those were published I have considered the bend riders pair to mean a better design as most other pieces are leapers anyway. The votes are confirming that a bit. Anyway, in time, I did notice a charm of the Capablanca pieces. They are strong pieces that you can develop out early without them forking too easily as the NC, NZ or CZ (their full leaping versions I mean, as the falcon is another very interesting story on it's own) are doing on a 10x10, at least. But as I use a joker in most of my games having two quickly jumping pieces proved not that interesting. The bent riders have the design advantage that they need some board clearing to be useful and interesting. That ads a layer of strategy to the game. The presence of the joker is actually the main reason why for the next apothecary games generation (on a 10x10): I'll use one Capablanca piece and one bent rider as super rook pieces. Both for the joker's sake and on it's own, having two different types of pieces is better from a design point of view I'd say. I have discussed these two types of super rook pieces as they come about more naturally. There are always more options of course.