New Fairy Chess Piece: Cannon

The Cannon moves like a King, but if there is a piece orthogonally adjacent to it, the Cannon can launch it like a rook. The piece gets launched to the other side of the board, but if there is any enemy piece in the way, the launched piece lands on top of it. It lands behind any same colored or team piece.

Example: (Pretend the Chariot is a Cannon) The cannon on b4 can launch the pawn on c4 onto the bishop on g4.

Sorry that I wasn't that clear, I meant the Cannon moves like a king, but it launches pieces like a rook. Also, the Cannon can only launch pieces in the direction the piece is to the Cannon. As in the example, the pawn on c4 gets launched to g4, but it can't get launched in any other direction i.e the b file or a4

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Pawn promotion by the cannon can only happen when the entire file is clear which only occurs in the end game, using a rook to guard would do the same thing, just a lot slower. If the enemy team has a piece guarding the back rank, that pawn can be easily captured. If you still don't like the cannon, just like the Grasshopper and Amazon, you don't need to include the cannon in every game.

And if a pawn gets launched to it's home rank or further, the pawn regains its double step move option.

Yes

That would make the Cannon more balanced

I think the gameplay would be more fun if pawns didn't blow up though.

The thing is, in the end game there can be a lot of stuck pawns, and if the kings are trapped by them, the cannon could launch the pawns. Also, in atomic chess, pawns surrounding a capture don't get blown up.

I also realized kings can't get launched or else they would explode.

I also have a suggestion for water tiles with its own set of pieces

And Cannons can launch pieces over water tiles, but not brick tiles.

I guess it's time to wait then.

No I don't

I can sketch one though.

Horrible sketch of the cannon.

The chariot faces the other direction, I don't think there would be any confusion.

And thanks for the compliment

It probably won't though, it would only be added if chess variants get bland.