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Abbreviations Explanation

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:28 pm
by Underway
Here are the definitions for all the new users on the site. I'm going to make this sticky so that new people can always see these definitions, with the mods permission of course.

General

W.A.A.C. = "Win At All Costs"

WYSIWYG = What you see is what you get (otherwise know and wissywig)

n00b = new member/new player also known as newbie

SoC = Storm of Chaos

CoL = Conclave/Council of Light

CoD = Conclave/Council of Dark (see the storm of chaos)

EoT = Eye of Terror

DD = Druchii Discussion or Dispel Dice

WGD = Wargames Discussion

IIRC = If I remember correctly

LOL = Laugh out Loud

AFAIK = As far as I know

IMO = In my opinion etc etc

IMHO = Im my humble opinion

WTF = What the FRICK??

BTW = By the way

Magic Items

GoP = Gauntler of Power

COBI Crown of Black Iron

SoM = Sword of Might

SoB = Sword of Battle (not what you were thinking you dirty mind 8) !!)

HB = Hydra Banner

AoD = Armour of Darkness

BA = Blood Armour

DS = Dispel Scroll

PS = Power Stone

SoG = Seal of Ghrond

Units

COK = Cold one Knights

COC = Cold one chariots

WE + witchelves OR Woodelves depending on the context

RXB = repeater crossbow

RBT = reaper bolt thrower

EX, Execs = executioners

BG = Black Guard

CoB =Cauldron of Blood

DR = Dark Riders

Armies

DE = Dark Elves

VC = Vampire Counts

SAD = Skaven Army of Death (very shooty skaven army)

TK = Tomb Kings

BC = Beasts of Chaos

DoW = Dogs of War

O&G = Orcs and Goblins

WE = Wood Elves or witchelves depending on the context

Characters

FC = Full Command

BSB = Battle Standard Bearer

HB = highborn

BM = Beast Master

HS = High Sorceress

Std = Standard bearer or standard

Mus = Musician

Scroll Caddy = level one (usually) sorceress that carries two dispel scrolls

Equipment

SDC = Sea Dragon Cloak

GW = Great Weapon or Games Workshop

SP = Spear

HA = Heavy Armour

LA = Light Armour

Sh = Shield

DS = Dark Steed

CO = Cold One

DP = Dark Pegasus

HW = Hand Weapon

Spells

WoP = word of pain

CW = chillwind

BH = black horror

DD = Dispel Dice or Druchii Discussion

PD = Power Dice

Tactics

MSU = Many small units

MSE = Many small elites ... this and the MSU tactics can be found on
the tactics page (surprisingly)

RF = Refused Flank

RFZ = Red Fury zone

Please do not post on this thread. If there are some definitions I forgot PM me and I will edit this post. Thanks for your co-operation.

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 1:35 pm
by Nagathi
AS = Armour Save
CC = Close Combat
LoS = Line of Sight
BtB = Base to Base (contact)
HtH = Hand to Hand (combat)

Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 7:07 am
by Liquidoloco
Rork wrote:I thought it was rotfl...(which gets you the laughter)


We also have

ROFL: Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROFLMAO: Rolling On the Floor Laughing My [Arse] Off

Fell free to note if I am to remove the stuff between the brackets [] :)

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:45 pm
by Barthas
What is SSS?

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:26 pm
by Drakken
Soul Shadows Standard. One of the CoS Items

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 10:24 pm
by Annointedofdrucius
COTEC: Chamber Of The Ever Chosen (a site devoted to the evil forces of SoC)

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:57 pm
by Fellblade
What about WPS? Is it perhaps a website?

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:01 pm
by Linda lobsta defenda
WPS: warhammer players society or something. yeah it is a website

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:16 pm
by Malda
Maybee I came from another dimension, but what is vanilla list?

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:19 pm
by Mornedhel
IIRC 'vanilla' is in this context used to describe a standard list, ie the normal druchii list as from the army book, not CoS.

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:21 pm
by Mormacili
what is vanilla list?


The normal dark elf list, that you find in the book (so not the cult, patrol or garrison. Sometimes people also use it on army list that are very "standard".

Edit: I was the quickest gunslinger of all times. Until I met the one known as Mornedhel.

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:54 pm
by Bleys
You can't forget BRB = Big Red Book (i.e. Warhammer Rulebook) or Be Right Back

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:59 pm
by Psychologic
And lets not forget the newest army: OK = Ogre Kingdoms
We'll be seeing those around here very often.

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:47 pm
by Linda lobsta defenda
and all this is in the general FAQ in the druchii discussions :)

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:38 am
by Yemeth
Also I've seen around D.net:

WoC - Warriors of Chaos

D.net - Druchii.net (obvious but abbreviation nonetheless)

AB - Armybook

And as we include ROFL, LOL, WTF etc. - the English-mangling stuff that the terms of service (basically) forbid..
(at least as FYI)

FYI - For your information (used when adding information that are either not relevant to the subject or to the part of the subject, that is discussed at the moment. Also used to create an aggresive/pseudo-ironic "epiphany" to make someone feel bad about himself/hermself while exploiting his/her consience [And FYI, I did LOVE HER!])

Woot (Wut)? - What? A sign of major confusion by something he/she said, posted and/or done. It's usually a reaction on something ridiculous and/or absurd. Examples:
Bad: Woot are you playing tonight?
Good: And now I deploy a high sorceress with an Executioner's axe and BA.
          You: Woot?

NOTE: Woot (Wut) may come without a question mark. Then it's less "are you REALLY doing this?" and more like "Oh,... wow". I know woot isn't an abbreviation, but I feel it's good to understand and it's, basically, the same kind of operation - saying less and expressing more.
If it's a problem, I'll take it out.


JK - Just kidding (very rare these days)

OMG - Oh My GOD!!

OMFG - As above but vulgar

NOTE: OMG is often used when he/she did something stupid, may substitute woot as an expression of astonishment. OMFG is OMG^2, it's used when he/she did something EXTREMELY stupid, ridiculous, that makes you want to hit your head against the table. OMFG is an expression of this anger. It's also used as extreme OMG in woot/wut substitution.


FTW - For the win. (e.g. Malekith FTW [ftw also possible - not case sensitive], means Malekith is the best, Woohooo, Malekith! etc.)

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:47 am
by Gh9st
Some threadomancy? >_<

Also as a mod said further up in this all these terms are already available in the website's FAQ.

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:48 pm
by Yemeth
Gh9st wrote:Some threadomancy? >_<

Also as a mod said further up in this all these terms are already available in the website's FAQ.


I know it's old.
But: It's sticky, so it won't move due to my post.
There is a direct link to this thread in some welcoming PM (or something like that) so I thought, I'd add something with no damage done. People who end up following the mod's post wont miss anything and those who don't, at least, learn something useful (maybe).
It's sort of necromantic community-service with zero risk.

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:16 pm
by Gh9st
Ah well, no worries. I didn't realise it was sticky, most of the stickies usually have Sticky: in front of the topic title. =)

Agreed, this sort of thing is useful for people to know. Especially for those that don't speak English as their first language.

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:16 pm
by Calisson
FYI, a more recent thread has been created, with not only up-to-date abbreviations (the whole thread was Last edited by tmr on Tue Aug 18, 2009, i.e. ...yesterday!), but also a treasure of other useful informations:

Hyperlink => D.R.A.I.C.H. - Complementary material

That hyperlink is also in the D.R.A.I.C.H. first post.
The D.R.A.I.C.H. itself is stickied in the tactics forum.
Have a look, you'll be impressed!
and tmr welcomes you to provide any complement to his thread, of course!

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:46 pm
by Silverheimdall
Woot (Wut)? - What? A sign of major confusion by something he/she said, posted and/or done. It's usually a reaction on something ridiculous and/or absurd. Examples:
Bad: Woot are you playing tonight?
Good: And now I deploy a high sorceress with an Executioner's axe and BA.
You: Woot?

NOTE: Woot (Wut) may come without a question mark. Then it's less "are you REALLY doing this?" and more like "Oh,... wow". I know woot isn't an abbreviation, but I feel it's good to understand and it's, basically, the same kind of operation - saying less and expressing more.

The hell, I've never used Woot or seen Woot used like that, "woot" is more like "yay" or something.

"Woot! I made it!"

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:03 pm
by Gh9st
I've always understood woot to be an abbreviation of 'Wonderful loot'...so if something good happens (you get some nice loot...) you can say woot!

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:49 pm
by Mornedhel
We own other team.

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:52 pm
by Rork
Linda Lobsta Defenda wrote:and all this is in the general FAQ in the druchii discussions :)


I'm just going to lock this...