Each counter represents 300 to 1000 fighting troops, depending on size and type.

The game was tactical in scale and each counter represented an individual aircraft.

Many wargames use counters to represent units and determine line of sight.

The game is played almost exclusively with cards, although there are also some counters representing the assorted goods players will trade.

The game's counters represented squads of men and individual specialists such as artillery observers.

A counter represents one animal, robot or individual.

Most counters in the game represent corps, or Soviet armies roughly the size of other countries' corps.

Each counter represented a battalion, regiment, or brigade-strength unit.

Using Morris' algorithm, the counter represents an "order of magnitude estimate" of the actual count.

The original game contains counters representing the German, Russian and American armies.