Took a couple of tries. Hardest part was getting the top to connect to the base. It never looked quite right when I rotated the pawn. Looked like a warped tire 
. Found that my issue was creating the sphere in edit mode instead of object mode. Once I created as a separate object I had no issues merging the two. Ahh learn from my mistakes 
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Need to follow instructions better. Thought the excessive was to reduce the pawn to 100 tris. Also missed the comment to keep 8 edges. This is a pawn with 100 tris (right most). I did not like it so I created one with 250 tris which does not look too bad. Once I finally read the instructions correctly I would end up with a base with ~100 tris.
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