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Iron Nest Map Icons: Decoder for Every Symbol

Iron Nest map icons are the symbols printed on your map table and orders that mark who and what is where; learning the legend is the first step to a fast, correct firing solution.

Iron Nest map icons are the symbols printed on your map table and orders that mark who and what is where; learning the legend is the first step to a fast, correct firing solution.

Common icons: a fixed gun symbol for your turret (the origin of every bearing), objective markers for the mission target, friendly-unit triangles, and enemy-battery crosses for counter-battery work.

Observation markers show where a scout plane or forward observer sighted a flash or sound, each carrying the bearing line you feed into triangulation.

Decoy or phantom markers (used in the Phantom Battery mission) look like real batteries but shift between shots, so only the icon whose two bearings intersect on a fixed point is genuine.

Illumination and smoke call-ins appear as request markers, reminding you which support shell is active over which grid during night or covered maneuvers.

Reading the icon legend before a mission saves seconds in timed stages, where hesitating over a symbol can cost the Counter-Battery reply.

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