Battle Order

Annotated Graphic of an Armored Regiment for Case Studies Video

Added 2025-07-05 21:38:32 +0000 UTC

I'm currently actively working on a video about decoding U.S. Army unit lineages with Easy Company, 506th PIR as an example. That should be out in a week or less.

In the background though I'm also preparing to do a video that's basically comparing how multiple countries organize armored brigades/regiments and then synthesizing that to create our own. I haven't decided who will be included yet, but you can probably count on American Combat Commands and pre-downsizing ABCTs, French Cold War Tank Regiments, Soviet/Russian style Tank Regiments, and other examples. Our proxy for armored forces in this series, which I'm calling "Task Forces", is called the 66th Shock Regiment (pictured here).

This graphic shows the direction I'm going with it. It only shows organic elements to the regiment and not enablers attached or in direct support from the division level, such as self-propelled artillery, air defense, engineers, logistics, etc. Only organic because I'm researching U.S. Army lineage and guidons I wanted to do a creative thing with guidons specifically. It's annotated with notes that the bottom explaining some things and what the decision is referencing. We talk about this a little on the Patrons Discord, but so far the 66th Shock is looking to be pretty American/French inspired in terms of tradition and force design practices, while the 1st Siege Artillery (the heavy/corps/theater/specialized artillery proxy) is looking to be more British inspired.