LaTeX: Gygax's military symbols collection

Gary Gygax Day special The "Ancient and Medieval Standard Military Symbols" article1 by Gary Gygax from The Strategic Review Vol.II No.2 magazine introduced a collection of symbols to be used when depicting ancient or medieval troop formations, based on existing Napoleonic Era symbols. The simplicity of these symbols makes them a great excuse to dive into the basics of TikZ drawing in LaTeX and, of course, making them available for future use in ancient and medieval wargames. Contents Basic concept Further details Arrows Shapes Clipping Bézier curves SVG export Source code Basic concept ↩We will use the wargame package,2 which was already covered in the previous posts of this series. A separate am-symbols.sty file will contain a single \tikzset command where the collection of symbols is defined in the natoapp6c/s/am/ namespace, making them available for use as chit symbols. 📝 NOTE: A more in-depth example is presented in the package's tutorial3 document. \tikzset{% % 1 - LI…