Proposal for a new piece - burrower to prevent stalemates

[bmike]

I haven't seen this yet, but can see a situation where each party has one attacking piece and can cover the other's spawn point. I could see this where one party has a medic and the other doesn't choose to get off the spawn and attack.

Would it make sense to add a burrower piece that can drill up and spawn even when the point is blocked? I would imagine a wit value of 11 or something higher so that it doesn't needlessly weaken the need to defend your spawn position well. (but gives incentive for the opponent to go on the offensive before risking destruction from below.)

Alternatively, I suppose if all spawn points are covered - a tie breaker of wits could be used assuming that also isn't a tie at the point where the system goes to break this potential deadlock but I like the idea of the person with enough wits could somehow gain the advantage to break any deadlocks. Perhaps a cost of 25 wits could summon a thunderbolt out of the blue that can strike the opponent's house (or any piece fro that matter) for 1 damage would also work to not disrupt normal game strategy, but penalize an inactive playing style and circumvent a situation where no other avenue for attack exists. This could be added as an easter egg should someone ever get to the point where they had that many points in the bank just to see if this ever happens.

I suppose the developer could just poll the database and see any games with >XX wits to see why and how this happens in practice before making any change.