Wargaming Basics - Military Symbology

[@paulkoble3449]

This is a great concept for a series.

[@richardhawes2205]

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

[@DjigitDaniel]

Well done, sir. It's been a while since I pored over a laminated map. LOL Nostalgia.

[@varovaro1967]

Happy New Year to you and the intelligent people that follow u! 🍷

[@danielwatcherofthelord1823]

Something tells me the cross shaped "target" straps were not designed like that on accident. The generals of old did seem to start developing an idea that their soldiers were just expendable pawns in their real-life war game.

[@AAQ1968]

Simple and at the same time outstanding explanation. Thanks.

[@greywulf31]

Great videos anticipating your Holland '44 video and hopefully more hex WWII wargames.

[@JavaApp]

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!

[@NoEnemiesHere]

AWESOME, Thank you!

[@MrNeverbeentoEurope]

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.

[@unitedstatesofamericamilit8588]

Excellent production!

[@unitedstatesofamericamilit8588]

It is a valuable learning tool to share with future prospect/ gamers, as an intro. Very nice 👍

[@rastamann2009]

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

[@turian1moose]

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

[@bmrigs]

.Thank you for this. I am starting to get into wargaming and this video helps a lot.

[@teecee5449]

Great video. Interesting and helpful, love it.

[@AjaxOileo]

Liked the video. Have only one comment: what the videos calls “armored cavalry” is currently called “armored reconnoissance” units.

[@ABCDE5628]

Hi Ben I found this video very informational and educational. Really love it, please make new videofor this series, it's been 3 years 😆

[@user-cj2fq2nd2f]

Very useful! Thank you.

[@letzteraufruf]

This was super helpful! Love your work, Sir. Thank you very much & have a great new year! :-)

[@AlexNLee]

Outstanding! Appreciate it :)

[@PatrioticGestalt]

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.

[@decb7959]

Top work Ben, looking forward to your hex and counter vids.

[@briandodge1834]

Great video! Thanks. Happy New Year.

[@yixiyixi4057]

Really great video! looking forward to next one!

[@chrisridley4840]

Welcome to hex and counter Ben 😉

[@davidthompson7233]

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.

[@michaelg.1786]

That was a a good historical reference and helpful. Now no longer Greek to me 😁

[@timbovonnirgendwo7350]

Great idea! I am so long in wargaming and I did´t know the orign of the signs until now ;-)

[@cw.austin6633]

Back to basics, I love it!

[@theplasticcommando7394]

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.

[@ColonelRoseru]

Footnote, NATO uses cavalry symbol for recon units these days.

[@Marinealver]

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.

[@GoodCovfefe]

helpful. thank you.

[@KingP0rkchop]

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

[@harsh-rules]

Interesting. Thanks, I'll look for it!

[@guilleaeiou]

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.

[@kodiak71gene]

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!

[@harsh-rules]

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/

[@dipdip7250]

Awesome!!!

[@bleedingleaderq]

Very helpful, thanks!