Modern Military Analogues for Chess Pieces

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I know a poser when I see one.  You have an opinion about everything, just not an informed one.  Do your homework, google, whatever.  You are no military man or military brat.

Maybe I should block you....sound familiar , but I an a believe in free speech.  Anyway, if you want to continue to insult military people have at it.  They are folks who shed their blood for that right. 

Thanks, your friend the psychopath.

Look, I won't argue that war changes people and it does not change them for the good.  Your wording in a previous post made it sound like the military is for psychopaths or that is full of psychopaths and if you are a military brat, you have to know that is not true.  Were you relatives and friends and neighbors all psychopaths?  Do you understand why I might take offence?

Yes us pyschopaths are usually paranoid too.  I extend the olive branch and you decide to be the jerk.  Man, you must be lonely.

Was that your father?  Oh my, they voted right wing?  Did they hold you down, poor whiskey down your throat, preach Reaganomics and make you join the boy scouts?   Sacary indeed?  You are total liar period.  You know if someone gets a DUI in the military it usually ends their careers?  It is the same for domestic abuse.  I doubt you have ever even been on a military base.  You continue to show your ignorance with each post.

Thanks, he will and does.

I have not been reading/ following this thread actively, nor have I encountered either of you before, so I am unbiased to the situation. My opinion on this is that Pat is correct about this, and you, Tonya, are not. Please reread some of the stuff you have posted, like when you said every pilot cheats on their wife. That is not possible or true.

Oooh, how bout double secret, super duper, uber ultra right wing?  excuse me while I cue up Wagner...Vagner.  Do you feel better now?  Pot meet kettle.

This is one example of what I mean

Sorry to feed the troll and my apologies for taking this off point guys.  

It is all good, thanks for your service.

What about pawn promotion? Is that like a soldier being promoted to tank driver or something?

I imagine a soldier raiding the arms depots of the enemy and stealing a tank, though such a maneuver is, again, improbable in real life.

I am not trivializing war. I am not joking about violence. @Pat_Zurr you have my respect.

You are not living in 1984's Oceania. Drop it.

I sincerely hope that what you are saying is all a joke. 65 million people died during WW2 alone, trying to defend their country. Many more came home permanently disfigured, scarred both physically and emotionally. Young men, most not even 21, had to swim in the blood of their friends at Normandy. An 18-year-old Russian would walk into Stalingrad, knowing he would most likely be dead at the same time tomorrow. Many of them died without knowing how - or even why. People with thousand-yard stares and PTSD. You, who I daresay has never seen anything close to what they've seen, trivialize them and label them lunatics.

Your second statement is invalid because no such world could ever exist. To think otherwise is foolish and idealistic. Ever since the dawn of time humans have been building weapons, to ensure their survival. Once again, I am not glorifying war, but don't you think that the people who have sacrificed so much for your freedom deserve more respect than what you have accorded them with?

1: Please do not bring religion into this.

2: So acknowledging the services of a veteran who served his country for 21 years is considered "a devilish way", but belittling and dismissing them as crackpots is not?

3: Please explain how we are trying to intimidate you.

@Tonya_Harding

We won't bother trying to explain anything to you, when you've obviously lost a couple of marbles.

Sorry sir/ma'am/madam/mademoiselle.

@blunder Thanks for your comments.  I have said what I needed to say.  I actually came to this thread to see what people has to say about chess pieces until I got side tracked.  When I was young, I loved playing with a plastic Napoleon chess set my dad had that looked like this.  After my father passed away, I was unable to find the chess set he had.  I got a very similar set at a yard sale. My father and I would go to battle, but neither one of us were any Napoleon.

@Pat_Zurr May your father rest in peace.

I came here bc I was actually thinking of the same idea recently, but if you wanted to see our original ideas, you might need to go to page 1 for that.

Speaking of chess sets, have you heard of the Lewis Chessmen? 93 ornately crafted chess pieces, dating back to the 12th century, were discovered on a Scottish isle in 1831. It's one of the very few Medieval sets that have survived as a complete unit. A single piece was sold in 2019 for 735,000 pounds; you can imagine how precious they are.