The references.

For Example:

• The Lavishly Prep School
• The Liberal Military School of Superior People
• The Scarce School

The poster didn’t have anything that looked like a robot. (click small pic for detail) With a little research (i.e. google.com), I found out about the real robot bombing in WW2.

Turns out that “Robot bomb” was the term for the V1 bomb that used “autopilot”. Sort of like an early cruise missile. It was also use to describe balloons of explosives that the Japanese sent over the the US west coast. (And was kept a secret by the US goverment and the press.) From Chapter IV of “Guarding The United States And Its Outposts“, published by the US Army:

The Japanese launched the balloons from the Sendai area of northern Honshu Island. The bags of the balloons were 331/2 feet in diameter and lifted various mechanisms and a load of from 25 to 65 pounds of incendiary and antipersonnel bombs. The balloons were carried across the north Pacific by high air currents in as little as four days. About 9,300 were launched, and some drifted as far east as Michigan and south into Mexico. Many landed in Alaska and Canada, and a few in Hawaii. They did almost no damage, and there is no proven instance of a balloon igniting a forest fire. The only casualties traceable to them occurred at Bly, Ore., on 5 May 1945, when a woman and five children on a Sunday School picnic were killed when they tried to take a bomb apart. The press co-operated in keeping balloon sightings and recoveries a secret, and the lack of news about them may have helped persuade the Japanese to discontinue the operation in the spring of 1945.

Behold the splendor of Queen War:

Board Setup

• All pawns go in their regular places.
• Each queen too.
• The rooks (we chess amateurs call them castles) go on the left and right of the queen

Movement and Capture

• Pawns move 1 square in any direction, including diagonal. Pawns can only capture diagonally.
• Queen moves and captures as in regular rules, except the queen may jump over her own rooks.
• Rooks do not move. They can not capture anything. Rooks can only be captured by Pawns.
  • At first attempt to capture, the Rook is considered “knocked over” and is laid on it’s side in it’s current square. The Pawn that attempted the capture stays in it’s original square (it doesn’t move into the Rook’s square). The move is over.
  • Second attempt by a Pawn is handled as a normal capture– the Rook is removed from play and the Pawn takes it’s place.

Game over, man, game over!
There are two ways to win.

• When all the opposing player’s Pawns are captured, you win. Or:
• When the opposing player’s Queen is captured, you win.

If you have the chance to play this game, please let us know how it went and if you enjoyed it!