Military Musings
Between the 13th Age game and recent military scifi reading, it occurs to me that I may "know" a lot more about military organization, weapons, strategy, and such than a lot of my generational peers. Granted, this knowledge is a amalgam of many sources that may vary in significant ways - ranks, for example, are not universal across branches, much less nations. Still, a lot of things I take for granted are total unknowns to some people. And all my knowledge is theoretical (in that I have never served and don't use firearms). So when a player set their character up as a major in the game, my thought was less "this is the group leader" and more "that seems an unusually high rank to only be leading half a dozen people." Of course, handwaving and "it's just a game" and all that, so I don't dwell on it. But it has had me thinking tangentially about such things and how I've assimilated bits and pieces from various sources. Recently re...