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Agent Canada Sidekick Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 27	CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 5:16pm I have always like the idea of the government run task forces (Shield, Checkmate, ect.) and have always wanted to include a representative of CHESS in my games. I can not actually find any published character sheets or even pictures of what the power armor looks like. Any help or suggestions?
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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 1784 On High Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #1 - Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 11:46pm There are counters of their cycles and Knight armor in a couple of modules, I'll have to dig them out to see exactly which ones they're in though.
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Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries
Reply #2 - Feb 6^th, 2010 at 6:40pm

Yeah, there's a ton of markers for Knights and Valkyries in numerous adventure supplements. They look the same; the Knights wear light blue and the Valkyries pink (or dark pink, depending on which module). Rooks (and Doves, their counterparts) were just James Bond-type agents, and the only major characters they had were Homer Grimsby (the King) and Alexandria Huntington (the Queen); Dawn of the Devil had stuff on them (their offices and such), but I'm pretty sure they never statted them out.

I believe the ones that had them (I'm going from memory here) include Most Wanted Volume 1, The Secret in the Swamp, and Dawn of the Devil, plus probably a few more.

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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 1206 Seattle Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #3 - Feb 6^th, 2010 at 6:41pm If anybody saw "Absolute Justice" (the 2 hour Smallville mini-movie) last night, then you saw that they introduced Checkmate to the series as a major behind-the-scenes player.
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Agent Canada Sidekick Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 27	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #4 - Feb 6^th, 2010 at 8:46pm Cool, thanks for the info, figures three of the four modules I don't own.
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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 1784 On High Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #5 - Feb 6^th, 2010 at 9:08pm I really liked Checkmate, back in the day, and wish DC had left it alone. I'm not digging the new UN mandate thing they currently have going on.
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Agent Canada Sidekick Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 27	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #6 - Feb 7^th, 2010 at 7:17pm Thanks Majestic and dsumner. I found a counter for both Knights and Valkyries. It's only a head and shoulders pic, but assuming the rest of the armor follows suit, I'm going with something like this: Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 1206 Seattle Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #7 - Feb 12^th, 2010 at 12:39am Very cool - I like the look!
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Hammer Avenger Offline GM Apprentice Posts: 303 McKinney, TX Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #8 - Feb 12^th, 2010 at 2:26pm I saw the episode, is the comic DC or Marvel... I don't guess it really matters at this point, as has been said here, the chess theme has been used many times.
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Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries
Reply #9 - Feb 15^th, 2010 at 1:49am

Hammer wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 2:26pm:

I saw the episode, is the comic DC or Marvel... I don't guess it really matters at this point, as has been said here, the chess theme has been used many times.

Not sure what you mean by "the comic" in this case, Hammer. Checkmate is (apparently) a DC comics organization. I'm not that familiar with DC myself, but I know Marvel pretty well, and they showed up in Smallville, which means DC.

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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 1784 On High Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #10 - Feb 15^th, 2010 at 6:35am There have been two separate Checkmate comics. In the first run Checkmate was a US government organization, similar to the SHIELD. The second run had them operating under a UN mandate. I preferred the first run.
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Hammer Avenger Offline GM Apprentice Posts: 303 McKinney, TX Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #11 - Feb 17^th, 2010 at 4:42am Majestic wrote on Feb 15^th, 2010 at 1:49am: Checkmate is (apparently) a DC comics organization.I'm not that familiar with DC myself, but I know Marvel pretty well, and they showed up in Smallville, which means DC. Yep, that's what I was asking, and what I thought as well. Thanks!
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THE ONI Avenger Offline No Name is my friend. Posts: 336 Gender:	Re: CHESS - Knight & Valkyries Reply #12 - Feb 17^th, 2010 at 6:37pm I just read this now and see where the whole CHECKMATE idea was already used. It was right in front of me the whole time. Lovely......
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