Main abbreviations you guys use please :)

[I Am Herenow]

Hi there!

I'd like to know the main abbreviations used in these forums.

So far I have:

STW - Shogun: Total War
MTW - Medieval: Total War
RTW - Rome: Total War

~BI - ~ Barbarian Invasion
~V - ~ Vanilla [unmodded]
EB - Europa Barbarorum

MIC - Military Industrial Complex
RTR - Rome: Total Realism
M2TW - Medieval 2: Total War
CTD - Crash to desktop
TC - Total conversion (mod)

I need:

AAR
PBM (although I'm guessing it's something like "Player-based mod")
AoR
Any others I should know!

Thanks in advance! :)

[Caius]

AAR
PBM (although I'm guessing it's something like "Player-based mod")


First Welcome to the org!

AAR:After Battle Report
PBM:Play by multiplayer Mail
KTM:Kick to Menu(Modding problem)
ZOR:Zone of Recruitment
ME:TW Middle Earth:Total War(Rome mod)
VBM:Vanilla Balancing Mod(Rome mod)
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BTW:By the way

Those are utilizated.But I need to know AFAIK, and FTW too

[UltraWar]

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AFK - Away from Keyboard
FTW - For the win
UW - UltraWar
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[Dutch_guy]

AAR
PBM (although I'm guessing it's something like "Player-based mod")
AoR


After Action Report.

Play by mail

Area of recruitment.


AFAIK = As Far As I Know.

FTW = For the win ?

:balloon2:

[Martok]

FTW = For the win ?

:balloon2:
Yes. FTW = For the win. :yes:

[Caius]

CF:Caius Flaminius

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I would link to a wiki page, but it contains bad langage, so I sadly cannot, or at least not without breaking the forum rules. Sorry. However, from what I know:

AFAIK — As far as I know
BTW — By the way
Bump — When somebody posts in a thread to bring it back up to the top of the forum page and get it noticed.
Spam — Posting, which often makes no sense, just to increase post-count. Most posts of this nature include the phrase "+1" to indicate the level of which their post count has increased by.
AoR (a.k.a ZoR) — Area/Zone of recruitment, A feature in many modifications, and in the games M:TW and R:TW, which restricts certain units to be trained in certain regions. For example, Swiss Pikemen can only be trained in the province of Switzerland or Spartan Hoplites only being available in Sparta and Syracuse.
PBM (a.k.a PBeM)— Play by (e-mail) campaign. A nice explanation of this can be found here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=30871).

Hope this helps, cheers!

[I Am Herenow]

Thanks guys! :)

Found two more confusing ones:

FRAPS
UI

Also, as for FTW ("for the win), "[x] ftw" means "[x] is (a) good (thing)". Could be extended to FTD, ~L (For the Draw, ~Loss) - again, "This is mediocre"/"This is bad", but those are really only joke ones.

[Warmaster Horus]

UI is User Interface, I believe. It's basically what you see on screen (Unit cards, mini-map...)
FRAPS, I don't think is an abreviation, but is a usefull program to take screenshots and videos. It's free, but in that case you can only get 30 seconds max videos. I don't know any other limitation.

[IrishArmenian]

An abbreviation is a shortening of a word or phrase, commonly made by only using the first letter in each word, example After Action Report becomes AAR.

[naut]

Also, IIRC - If I Remember Correctly

[Raz]

To save you time, if you ever come upon the letters GUI it just refers to the previously answered abbreviation UI or User Interface. (GUI = Graphic User Interface if you ever need to know).

[Fußball]

IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Honest Opinion

And a few M2TW unit specific abbreviations:

DGK - Dismounted Gothic Knights
DFK - Dismounted Feudal Knights
DCK - Dismounted Chivalric Knights
S&S - Sword & Shield
2hander - Anything from Zweihänder ( two handed sword:two hander ) to 2handed Axe

[naut]

IMHO can also mean In My Humble Opinion

[I Am Herenow]

Thanks!

What does EDU stand for?

[Raz]

export_descr_unit - It's a data file in the data folder of your root game in either M2TW or RTW, if that makes any sense to you. ~_^

Don't worry about it unless you plan on modifying your game.

[caravel]

CITC® - Camels Insulted, Thread Closed®

Camel®, CITC®, and the "CAMELS! CAMELS! CAMELS!®" logo are registered trademarks of Mithrandir® Corporation

[naut]

Not to mention, Camels - God.

[I Am Herenow]

CITC® - Camels Insulted, Thread Closed®

Camel®, CITC®, and the "CAMELS! CAMELS! CAMELS!®" logo are registered trademarks of Mithrandir® Corporation


Not to mention, Camels - God.

What?! :dizzy2:

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi I Am Herenow,
A famous moderator, who is highly revered by most in the community, named Mithrandir, has a dedicated passion for camels. It is believed that he gained this adoration through playing M:TW Multiplayer Player (MP) and winning many battles due to their superior uses against those highly inferior horses! Mithrandir closes most threads which insult camels with his famous words "Camels Insulted, Thread Closed!". However, don't worry, he never closes threads for just that reason, that's just his catchphrase! Hope this helps, cheers!

BTW, OP/TS - Original Poster/Thread Starter - the person who began the thread.

[I Am Herenow]

I see lol :laugh4:

Well thanks for the info!

[Mithrandir]

TBC- There be Camels
BoTC - beware of the Camels
DIC -Dont Insult Camels
CFTW-Camels For The Win
COA-Camels Own All
LOLTHHSITCTEIN-Laughing Out Loud, They have horses, send in the camels to end it now
DWTTSCHDHJYTSCDSDSII- Dont Walk There, The StableCleaner Hasn't Done His Job Yet There is Still Camel Dung So Dont Step In It

[Mithrandir]

WTC?!~-What the Camel?!

[I Am Herenow]

Thanks lol

[Fußball]

That's a lot of camel. I have a feeling there shall be more to come.

Tschüß!
Erich

[SwordsMaster]

WTC?!~-What the Camel?!

Moderator SPAM? :no:

[Caius]

Moderator SPAM? :no:
2nd mod that spam.

Andres found Sasaki Kojiro spamming in the Midgard Saga.

[Andres]

ATC : AndresTheCunning. Changed his name to Andres to avoid any misinterpretations, like AndresTheCamel. Dislikes camels because they stink. They really do.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

2nd mod that spam.

Andres found Sasaki Kojiro spamming in the Midgard Saga.

L,AL: Lies, all lies.

[Somebody Else]

GAH! - Get A Head! (Don't ask, something to do with Vanya. And soup.)
BKS - Big Queen Santaphrax (Beirut's the other front-room mod, and has an axe. 'nuff said.)

[Andres]

L,AL: Lies, all lies.

GAC: Guilty as Charged (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1437192&postcount=1530)

[Mithrandir]

Back on topic please.

Any more specific ones you'd like to know ?

[Somebody Else]

I've always wondered what 'wtf' means...

[Caius]

I've always wondered what 'wtf' means...
What the France, with and obvious foul word

[I Am Herenow]

Back on topic please.

Any more specific ones you'd like to know ?

EDU - edit_descr_unit
EDB - edit_descr_building

Is that correct?

There was another one, but I can't remember it now. I'll post it when I do :)

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi again I Am Herenow,
Almost! I, think, sorry, I may be wrong as I'm not a modder, that it stands for the files in M2:TW and R:TW installations know as export_descr_units (EDU) and export_descr_buildings (EDB). They both determine what the building's and unit statistics are within the two games and can be modded easily and at will. Hope this helps, cheers!

[Somebody Else]

What the France, with and obvious foul word

What foul word is that? I don't get it...

[pevergreen]

DWTTSCHDHJYTSCDSDSII- Dont Walk There, The StableCleaner Hasn't Done His Job Yet There is Still Camel Dung So Dont Step In It

Im sorry, I'll get there now.

[caravel]

What foul word is that? I don't get it...
WTF - "What The Futuwwa!!??"

:bow:

[naut]

:laugh4:

[Shahed]

LOL ! yeah ! I remember Mithrandir's camels in MTW very well !

I LOVE camels as well, especially CAMEL GUNNERS !!!
Have a look here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=74941) for some screenshots, post number 6.

There's a lot of other unit abbreviations. e,g:

Spear Militia: SM
Town Militia: TM
Levy Spearmen: LS
Longbowmen: LBs
Armored Swordsmen: AS&S
Peasant Archers = PA
Archer Militia = AM
Retinue Longbowmen = RLBs
Sherwood Archers = SA (mine is SS = Sherwood Snipers)
Heavy Bill Milita = HBM
Heavy Billmen = HB
Dismounted English Knights = DEK
Dismounted Feudal Knights = DFK
Feudal Knights = FK
Mailed Knights = MK
English Knights = EK
Bodyguard = BG
Knights Templar = KT
Knights Hospitaller= KH
Arqbusiers = Arqs
Chivalric Knights = CK
Dismounted Chivalric Knights = DCK

etc... etc... I will post a complete list in a few hours (need to do some work!). The most frequently used ones are the (not surprisingly) the knight abbreviations.

[I Am Herenow]

Sherwood Archers = SA (mine is SS = Sherwood Snipers)

Thanks for the info, but aren't SA and SS slightly unfortunate choices of abbreviation, if you don't mind me saying so?

[Shahed]

I don't think so, why ?

SS as in WW2 SS you mean ? I did'nt think of that, if that's what you are thinking.

SA as in .... ? South Africa ? BEEEAUTIIIFUULLL (is how the Xhosa pronounce it) country, sad past. Can't think of any other SA abbreviations at the moment. Or are they other units which have the same abbreviations ?

Show me the light !

:idea2: :beam:

[Warmaster Horus]

SA was Hitler's police pre 1939 (or somewhere before that) and afterwards it was the SS.
But basically they were Germany's government's secret police.

[I Am Herenow]

Never mind - I've found another one that's confusing me: EDB. Could anyone help?

[Shahed]

Ahh yes I remember... doh ! the SturmAbteilung. Thanks for the reminder, I forgot about that.

Well SA is also Sexaholics Anonymous.

[Shahed]

Never mind - I've found another one that's confusing me: EDB. Could anyone help?

export_descr_buildings ?

[I Am Herenow]

Oh, wait, scratch that - I just did it lol

I'm so stupid sometimes

[I Am Herenow]

Yeah, thanks lol - forgot I'd asked that one already

[Caerfanan]

What foul word is that? I don't get it...
Ahem... that's a four letter words whitch usage is strictly forbidden. I geuss that France or French are used to give a hint on abusive language instead, as in "Excuse my french", etc...

WTF means something like "What?? Oh my, but how??? Are you kidding??? Oh nooo!!!"

[Caerfanan]

What foul word is that? I don't get it...
Ahem... that's a four letter words whitch usage is strictly forbidden. I geuss that France or French are used to give a hint on abusive language instead, as in "Excuse my french", etc...

WTF means something like "What?? Oh my, but how??? Are you kidding??? Oh nooo!!!"

[Mithrandir]

TCBOSP - Thread closed because of spam percentage.