Wargaming Basics - Military Symbology
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- I had a version of this overview of military symbology in the rules video I'm currently working on. It got too big so I broke it out into its own episode for a new Wargaming Basics series. I have a few other ideas that I'll probably make episodes for in the future.
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This is a great concept for a series.
Thsi was absolutely fantastic - The historical imagery that you put alongside the symbols means they're now hardwired into my brain and made all those hex and counter games much more accesable to me - thanks so much
Well done, sir. It's been a while since I pored over a laminated map. LOL Nostalgia.
Interesting - I had read that the X for infantry was for a couple of crossed muskets and that the cavalry symbol was for a sabre.thanks for the video
Happy New Year to you and the intelligent people that follow u! 🍷
Simple and at the same time outstanding explanation. Thanks.
Happy New Year! I was familiar with the Nato symbol set but the history of them was much more interesting. They make more sense now. Thank you.
Excellent Ben. The wife and I loved it (we are both light wargamers). I can see episodes covering CRT, the different types of phased movement (like two armor movement phases, and why they are important.) Looking forward to more!
Great videos anticipating your Holland '44 video and hopefully more hex WWII wargames.
This was super helpful! Love your work, Sir. Thank you very much & have a great new year! :-)
The more war games you cover the better. I love them but it's really hard for me to be motivated to read a 40 page rule book. Thank you for this
Top work Ben, looking forward to your hex and counter vids.
AWESOME, Thank you!
Really great video! looking forward to next one!
Great video! Thanks. Happy New Year.
Hi Ben I found this video very informational and educational. Really love it, please make new videofor this series, it's been 3 years 😆
Great video. Interesting and helpful, love it.
Liked the video. Have only one comment: what the videos calls “armored cavalry” is currently called “armored reconnoissance” units.
.Thank you for this. I am starting to get into wargaming and this video helps a lot.
Excellent video
Very useful! Thank you.
Brilliant. Thanks so much for this. I'm super familiar with the symbols themselves, but wasn't as familiar with some of the origins. Great stuff.
Great intro to wargaming!!! The way I see it (in terms of role playing games), each chits are character sheets for the units. Anyway, in future videos, I would love to see a compare/contrast of the usage of the chits. Lock-n-Load, ASL, GMT, etc. have different games that utilize these chits differently. The series may morph into debating which games are more "realistic". I don't mind the debate.
Excellent production!
It is a valuable learning tool to share with future prospect/ gamers, as an intro.
Very nice 👍
Great idea! I am so long in wargaming and I did´t know the orign of the signs until now ;-)
Outstanding! Appreciate it :)
Back to basics, I love it!
Very helpful, thanks!
Good video. I recently picked up a copy of 1967 Six Day War by Decision Games. This is helpful as the unit chips have similar designations.
Welcome to hex and counter Ben 😉
helpful. thank you.
That was a a good historical reference and helpful. Now no longer Greek to me 😁
Hey Harsh, could you do a video for Risiko!? It is an italian version of Risk, but interesting, because some rules are not the same, for example defender has three dice, reinforcements are different too, and it has the same missions as the international/american version, but also has 16 missions for tournaments so so interesnting (for me the best and more interesting part of the game). For tournaments it has a punctuation system, not very complex, but different from the international Risk (not only the number of territories), that is very interesting too. Sorry for my bad English, I'm not native speaker.
Footnote, NATO uses cavalry symbol for recon units these days.
Could you post the legend at the beginning of the video? I can’t find a reference to help me understand the complex symbols and numbers. Thank you so very much!
You can google search for Military Symbology for a lot of examples like this one:
www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryStrategy/comments/5mrf16/standard_military_symbols_used_for_planning/
MIL-STD-2525 is your basic guide.
Currently the version being used is MIL-STD-2525D.
It is all unclassified you can find it on google.
But thanks for the historic outlook on the origins of the symbiology.
You know, if you were wanting to showcase a set of rules that simulate WW1-WW2 era naval warfare as best as possible, I’d recommend Seekrieg 5, arguably the best naval wargame of that era
Interesting. Thanks, I'll look for it!
Awesome!!!