Squad Terms and Acronyms You NEED to Know 

I really enjoyed this one even if I knew 90% of it. Had me Rollin 🤣

As a 3k plus hours player who runs a server, gotta say I loved this video and am sharing it in our discord currently, appreciate you helping explain seeding, cause that’s the biggest question we get everyday during the process. Good video man

9:28 my SL: “alright everyone that can, get into the ifv. Except you blueberry, take a hike” followed by the one single blueberry that we had following us slowly turning and walking away. Hilarious and sad at the same time.

As someone who started playing Squad literally yesterday I want to say thank you. My first game I was able to keep up with my squad (amongst all the chaos) and was able to get 7 kills all becsuse I watched your videos before I even bought the game. Alot to take in with this game so I appreciate all the hard work getting the noobs such as my self up to speed 👍

8:23 and a loud YESSS was pronounced. Danger close applies to friendly danger, not enemy one. Thank you for including it in this video

It's less of a thing now, but I love the "It's a ... BTR?!" Meme. The 30mm autocannon on the BTR and BMP-2 (I THINK) used to be the main terror on Squad. All autocannons on IFV really. It was that, mortars or TOW/KORNET (RU equivalent). That and mortars, and the ability to run two MG per squad. That was OP. Things have gotten better with updates and the labels in the "tickets" menu are really helpful for seeing exactly what vehicles are on a particular layer..and layer is another Squad term for map configuration. Different capture points active on different layers. Same map. Same boundaries. Squad has kept me coming back for almost 6 years. It never really gets old. I just play a match whenever I get the itch. And I find being a slow reacting adult doesn't hurt. You can usually outsmart the enemy in this game. It's easy to pick the game back up after months of not playing and have a monster round. That's just not possible with games like CSGO or R6. I love the ebb and flow of a good match. It's really intense but easy to enjoy if you can learn to appreciate losing a match. Always put up a fight, I say. You can learn something or improve some part of your gameplay with every match. Some matches are just going to be turds. Bonus tip for anyone: if you're late to a game and there's no open squad, create one called "Leftovers" or "Defense Only" . Low pressure for you as an SL in those circumstances, and you'll usually just have people spawning on HABS. It's a good chance to learn the SL Kit. Practic building stuff. Setting rallies. Just see how it all works. Practice relaying important info in command chat, cause your squad will probably be less chatty than one made at the game's start. This is how I got into SLing. How do you translate a really complex situation into a few words in just a few seconds? That's what a good SL does in command chat but also to his squad and any blueberries he finds himself in combat alongside. Be a leader. People get zoned into the combat and just need you to politely but firmly tell them, "hey let's disengage and run west so we can flank them". Being an SL will make you better at the game faster than anything else (note: you will not be getting as much firefight time), but it's also really exhausting and usually only super rewarding when you have dudes that are actually following orders. It's easy to SL leftovers because most of the FOB planning and early game moves on RAAS will have been done for you. RAAS means random advance and secure, the most popular game mode. Second would be invasion or maybe regular AAS where all capture points are visible at the start. Kinda makes games predictable, AAS. Invasion is good for firefight experience among some other things it helps you train. Play what you like, but RAAS is the way the game is designed to be played. It gets the most attention from the devs.

Just got a pc yesterday, and decided my first game should be squad. My first games were rough trying to learn to new things at once. I watched alot of your guide videos after about 3 games, and I'm still learning kb&m so my aim and movement, etc are still rough but I can atleast communicate and give percise and useful information to the team thanks to your videos, keep it up man!

"gore lah mee" is the best scene in inglorious basterds and i cant help but appreciate the fact that your entire branding is based off of it

I think you forgot to mention Technicals (Improvised light skin pickups with guns on the back), often shortened to techy/techies, and perhaps IEDs for the insurgent factions. Granted, they are written in the kit descriptions, but unless you are a weapon nerd like me, you are unlikely to look up what these things mean.

Cool video. A subject for a future video might be "building a HAB using a heli vs using a loggi to do the same". What are the pro's and con's?

Another good one to point out is that people often say "the enemy/our radio is on bleed" rather than "FOB bleedout". I very rarely hear anyone say FOB instead of radio in this context, and most of the time it's "on bleed" instead of "bleedout". That could just be the culture of the servers I play on though!

I'd love to see an explainer on some of the more mil sim tactics players use. Silhouetting. Defilade. Enfilade. Bounding. If the AR says to me as SL that they have Defilade, I'm gonna push the objective with the bulk of the squad straight away.

I don't know if this is similiar in other countries but for Squad leaders, In the aussie servers were call them "Squadies" And for acronyms like LAT and HAT. We dont pronounce them Lat and Hat, we say each individual letter, L.A.T, H.A.T. However, HAB is pronounced as said in the video aswell as FOB

New to Squad. I freakin love it. I typically don't game online anymore because I am burned out by your everyday FPS. Squad has brought me back with how different it is.

I was explaining a moment I had in the game, since I’m new (not even 10 hours) I was trying to explain one of the Russian vehicles the BTR. My dad served in the army and he was actually able to explain some of this stuff to me which I found cool. This will definitely help me make proper callouts now 😂, thanks for the great vid

As someone that has played PR for a few years, all of the jargon is quite familiar (HABs being the one thing that was new for me). Still, I love watching these kinds of videos! Nicely produced!

Great video & I seriously need to work on my vehicle recognition.

Everything I needed to know, finally. I've been looking for a video like this. YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

9:04 that definitely sounds like something someone would do in a Battlefield game lol

Enjoyed playing with you this morning while you ran around as a LAT/HAT. Hope to see you out there again sometime!

Fun fact: In Finland MT-LB is often calleed "älli tälli" which is kinda hard to make accurate translation. Roughly it means "brain damage" or "brain hit". AFAIK the nickname came from the fact that MT-LB is very low APC and the crew and troops are sitting in very confined space. Combined with shitty suspension and rough terrain people inside often hits their heads on vehicles hull and structure. Also exiting the vehicle is almost a guarantee to hit your head on your way out.

Good explanation of terms. I would have also noted the distinction between IFV and APC. While it is a minor distinction it can be useful when communicating with vehicles to make sure they don't get in over their head. Also the term "vic" to refer to vehicles.

Amazing video! This would have helped me a ton when i first bought the game, but i also learned a few new things

5:29 ahhh yes, the shitbox. My discontent with the shitbox is immeasurable.

I habitually misuse “danger close” and have no shame. If the danger is close, no matter what that may be, best others be notified of it by me than by the danger.

Great job dude! I've had this game since it came out of early access and still didn't know all of those terms!

This video was so fun to watch!! You should make a part two, maybe showing common weak spots of vehicles and stuff. Would be very fun

The term "blueberries" is also used as slangs for low skilled teammates (usually as antonym to clan members) or people who is not major contributors to a community.

and one thing, if you have it? DoD (Dome-Of-Death) applied as for example "Enemy camping DoD" (Enemy camping near-spawn area)

Love the video, nothing new for me but interesting to see, after 3k hours you tend to forget that newer players don't know all this stuff yet. btw some corrections I'd like to make: 2:11 It is correct people refer to the hab as fob but technically this is not correct the fob is the whole radius from the radio as you stated, also everything disappears *except* fortifications (does not include emplacements) 3:24 the dhska is only used by insurgents and militia the ones you showed in the picture is the "NSV" used by MEA and russians. when mounted to a vehicle (tigr or simir) its called "Kord" 4:02 the picture you showed is an MTLB with 30mm however the do get an actual BTR but its the BTR-80. 9:40 Although what you said is correct it might also be worth noting that players that are "noobs" although in your squad are sometimes referred to as blueberries because they are just as useful as one. however technically this is an incorrect usage. Outside of these tiny things I just mentioned its a great video so +1 sub for you:)

The one I actually didn't know and couldn't get the context for is "vic". You said it a couple of times in this video, but I had to google it to find out it means "vehicle in-commission" a.k.a. just a short term for "vehicle".

Strongly suggest to distinguish logi and transport for the newbies, I often see new players driving transport truck and thought they were using a logi...

With over 1k hours, and a bad memory, my brain has differentiated vehicles in a simplistic manner. I see the BTR as the dangerous Russian wheeled vehicle and the Stryker as the dangerous U.S. wheeled vehicle. The dangerous tracked vehicles are the Russian BMP and the U.S. Bradley. Once I learned to recognize these vehicles, because they fire exploding rounds, I quickly learned that tracked or wheeled vehicles that aren't these vehicles have a much smaller danger level to them. Main Battle tanks speak for themselves so I never had to learn to differentiate those. I think the hardest thing for new players is to differentiate the wheeled vehicles because they're the most common armor to encounter because their mobility. To most new players, something like a scout car looks like a BTR. I think the best way I learned to differentiate these vehicles is to look at the vehicle description list, the one that shows spawn timers, and observe all the vehicles on my own team by looking at the map. This allows a new player to realize that a scout car might look like a BTR but is actually labeled as a light vehicle symbol. I think a simple and detailed description of those symbols is going to help a new player more than anything because most people just don't have the patience to study each vehicle closely. I know I never had that patience and still don't after all this time. I simply have an unconscious response to threat level and what that vehicle is capable of to my heli or when I'm infantry,

BTR besides being an actual designation for a specific vehicle is actually the same acronym as APC in English. That is why you will hear people calling all sorts of Russian Armored Personnel Carriers BTRs. It's basically saying it's a Soviet/Ru APC. BMP in the similar vein is the IFV acronym in Russian.

That was the best Squad guide i ever watched, very well done.

Been playing squad for years and never bothered to ask what MSR meant. Now I know. I knew it had something to do with roads.

I always stuck with my squad as a marksman. This was huge when we went to capture a point I was a major component in distracting the enemy so my squad went in and wiped them out. So yea you are an asset to be assigned always stick near your squad and post up when you need too.

I play Project Reality. It's cool how both games are pretty similar

""backcaps are usally the gimmy objectives that the enemy has no change of taking"" shows yeho me squadleading on yeho ""lets grab a chopper boys and rush airfield"" :D

The best (and most preferred) English class ever in my life.

Finally a helpful video that’s not ADHD fast and actually understandable

my cousin is in the 75th ranger reg and i had him sit down and play a round of squad and he just kept getting mad because the misuse of vernacular confused him into getting killed many times lol... also for me, who primarily plays comp shooters like cs go and overwatch, when i first heard back cap, i thought it meant sneaking to enemy points in the backline and capping under their nose like people will do in overwatch in a final effort to win a point this led to multiple instances of an SL chewing me out because he asked me to back cap and i headed right into enemy territory onto a locked point i couldn't even cap yet because we didnt have the point control to lead there yet lol finally got that one clarified

as a experienced SL so much needed vid for new players :) good job!

I love how I opened up this video to learn vehicle callouts for English servers and you call the shitbox shitbox aswell haha Thought it was a german thing at first, love that it's an international callout

I would like to refer to the squad leader as Alpha 1, Bravo 1 and Charlie 1 for the respective FTLs, GL as 40 mike-mike and tanks such as the Abrams as MBT.

You should do a video on the end screen of squad to explain what the numbers mean. Man people seam confused about kills and stuff

you were trying to prove a point in the first few seconds but I understood all of it Im such a nerd :(

Bro, the shit box came across the screen and I thought to myself, what’s he really gonna call it 😂

Everyone when they see vehicle they always callout "BTR" ahahaha and I'm one of them lol. that's why I'm here.

You know someone is a Project Reality Vet when they refer other players not as "Blueberries" but as "Smurfs"

I've played Project Reality for years but I've never heard HAB. I think what you mean is rally point at least that's what we had that's similar to this.

I think you should make a video on the difference between a tow fob, attack fob and so on and so on

Joined a squad, immediately hear SL and a newbie arguing about building an ammo crate near a HAB. Newbie says he doesn't understand a word he just said, SL and him keep arguing. Immediately left that squad lol

Thanks for the video, I wished I'd seen something like that when I was a newbie. I really liked the speed-round at 4:40, however you maybe should've added the team's flags for better identification. Also BTRs are not IFVs but APCs which you unfortunately didn't describe in this video. Still a great video

I'm so glad you mentioned danger close, you just got a new sub😂

You mentioned 'Fire Team Lead' but not 'FTL' which most players refer to most of the time. Also missing, 'Radio is on bleed' or 'We're bleeding tickets'

The Scimitar technically isn't an IFV, an IFV is designed and equipped to primarily carry a combat infantry and will act as both the principal weapon system and mode of transport for the mechanized infantry squad. The Scimitar, lacking an infantry compartment altogether, is closer to a light tank, being an armored reconnaissance vehicle.

Another good word to learn is tracking, when I was a noob I thought lats somehow had the ability to shoot a tracker on armor that would show everyone where it was lmao

Thanks Gor!!

Isn't the TOW only the Bluefor ATGM?

Haha good intro, but we all know if it has a running engine it's definitely a tank...unless it has an engine AND is shooting really fast cuz then it's definitely a BTR

Great vid thanks! :D Wish I had this when I started! Not sure if it's your thing but it would be really cool if you had a doc we could print that had vehicle names, tips on identifying them quickly and where to hit them! This vid is great but the vehicle aspect is just so much to processes!

I love the humor in this 😂

To make it worse, the militia BTR variant you showed is actually an MT-LB lmao

Vid idea: armor call-outs, you touched on it a bit but as a HAT main I’d love for there to be a reference vid out there for all our new players so I can finally get some accurate marks on map 😂

For the lone wolves, tell them they have a map with grid squares like everyone else, so use it.

dude we have the same views on most things Squad, love the content! This is so helpful and your other vids are so so so helpful and informative! Keep up the good work, hope I see you in a server some day!

Thank you for this brother 👌

an Infantry Fighting Vehicle are named as such because they are supposed to fight ALONG SIDE the Infantry. BTRs, like Bulldogs and Strykers, are not IFVs. They are APCs (armored personel carrier)

Everything within the blue circle is NOT destroyed, the things that are lost are: Radios, repair stations HAB, ammo crate, any emplacements (static weapons). All fortifications will remain such as Indirect fire shelter, sandbags, bunkers (without HMG) etc.

what make it worse is one of teammate may have jet engine kind of sound

After 400+ hours, I discovered what a shit box is hahaha

I would love to see a video on a comparison between enemy gun fire, and friendly gunfire, with a side by side difference hearing both guns being shot at once. No google or RU-vid has something like this.

Really appreciate the video. As a new player, it really helps. I have a question is there a group you could recommend that I could join and help me learn how to play and all the in & outs of the game.

Loved this video. Can we just replace the in-game basic training with this?

Yesssss thank you gor

2:21 this is perhaps a useless correction but fortifications actually remain when a radio is destroyed. Unless that has been changed in a recent update

Dshk is also .50 cal but different (12.7x108 mm) while browning m2 is 12.7x99

Would love to see a video explaining all of the vehicle names. I definitely know I call any light armor with wheels a BTR when not every one of them is. Tried to look for a video like this too and couldn’t find any. All the names I’ve picked up are from my hours of playing.

New player here. Thank you for this! ending my confusion

I have been playing squad for over 400 hours and I still don't know the armor vehicle names 😂

If it has treads it's a tank. If it has wheels and a cannon, it's a infantry tank. Thats my logic.

Thank you! A much needed tutorial

Come on! No depression means that the guy is not currently seeing a shrink!

How about the G-Wagon? That one Canadian scout jeep who always get fucked by one rpg round

I got 40 kills (yes kills, not downs) with an MTLB once on invasion, which is the ticket equivalent of over 2 and a half tanks, and I saw my friend go 80+ multiple times. Just need a brain to use them.

I’ve played r6 for about 5 years. After I heard someone say “Logi” i was so confused lol

i am a PR veteran, just came here to check when i move to Squad will there be things i wont understand, and looks perfectly same. ty

You think you could do a video that focuses on fobs, habs and other emplacements . Like an everything you should know about them

loved the video. What does “ghosting” mean. i’ve heard it tossed around and i think it’s a bad thing

Baby your rolling me, I'm getting dominated, I'm danger close to finishing.

This should be in the ingame tutorial

Idk if Im the only 1who uses these Terms as an Sl but Spawnshifting and Stealthcapping is smth i use a lot and 70percent of ppl dont know what it means

The last one has me questioning, and honestly it was just a thought learning the acronyms I should expect from squads, but did blueberries originate as a term used in another game, Destiny 2 (Disgusting ABomination), or was it something that just happened cause in some games who have Massive Multiplayer Based servers have blue names/icons Etc. ?

all squad needs is VR support

Hey bud! Great info. Here's an idea to elaborate on vehicles. What vehicles should run away from what vehicles? I know it has to do with types of guns, but it's a bit intimidating. I like leading a squad but, calling out what vehicles should attack or run is not common sense....for my dumbass anyway. Thanks!

I always thought MSR was Main Service Road

What I really want to know why you would send a LAT for a Logi and not somebody less important.

Would just like to say as one of the 1% of marksmans who are actually effective (been playing for 4 years), I take offense to being kicked for choosing the marksman kit. How about SLs ask "how long have you played the game?" before insta kicking those of us who actually know how to use all kits... Good vid tho dude, so many new players need this shit badly!

great video!