New abbreviations
I've taken a stab at consolidating a list of abbreviations. Since I'm new to this I thought abbreviations through a new set of eyes would be useful. Since some of the old-timers know these like a second language what is obvious to you may not be obvious to someone new like me. You’ll also notice there are some I don’t know – to my point above – so the abbreviation is there with no definition. If you send me what you think it might be I'll update the list below. If you think something is missing by all means let me know and I will update the list.
Thanks for your help
New abbreviations .......................................
Renaming in the FAQ
GENERAL
• ACR = Active Combat Resolution, obtained by successful fighting (i.e. kill count) or by tactical skill (side or rear charging, defending a hill... - I am not sure everyone would consider that as ACR but I do)
- it can be estimated statistically but the average is a very rough indication, the expected range would be better.
• AKA = Also Know As
• AP = Amour Piercing
• AS or ArSv = Armour Save
• ASF = Always Strikes First
• BSB = Battle Standard Bearer
• BtB = Base to Base
• CC = Close Combat
• CR = ACR (Active Combat Resolution) + SCR (Static Combat Resolution)
• CR = ACR + SCR
• CR = Combat Resolution
• D6 = Six (6) sided die
• DD = Dispel Dice
• DODP = ??
• ECT = European team championships
• FC = Fast Cavalery
• GW = Game Workshops
• GW = Great Weapon
• HtH = Hand to Hand
• HvA = Heavy Artillery
• Hvy Cav = Heavy Cavalry
• IAC = Intrique at Court
• IC = Inner Circle
• IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
• KB = Killing Blow
• Ld = Leadership
• LoS = Line of Sight
• Lt Cav = Light Cavalry
• lvl = Level
• MM = Magic Missile
• MoC = Mark of Chaos
• MoCU = Mark of Chaos Undivided
• MoK = Mark of Khorne
• MoN = Mark of Nurgle
• MoS = Mark of Slaanesh
• MoT = Mark of Tzeentch
• MoU = Mark of Chaos Undivided
• MR = Magic Resistance
• MSU = Many Small Units
• MSE = Many Small Elite
• MB = Manbane
• Muso = musician
• MXB = Multiple CrossBow (the unit or the weapon): the proper name for RXB.
• NAS or nas = no armour save
• Og = Ogre
• PD = Power Dice
• PiFE = Pursuit into Fresh Enemy
• RiP = Remain in Play
• SCR = Static Combat Resolution, known when you see the army list (i.e. rank bonus, standard, likely numeric superiority, magic banner)
- it could be negated (flank charge, bigger number, magic) but normally you can count on it
• TWF = The Warhammer Forum
http://warhammer.org.uk
• US = Unit Strength
• USx = Unit Strength the “x” equals a number so US2 would be unit strength 2
• VP = Victory Points
• WM = Warmachine
• WOg = Wounded Ogre
• WS = Weapon Skill
Magic Items
• BDE = Black Dragon Egg
• BL = Black Lotus
• CoM = Crystal of Midnight
• DS = Dispell Scroll
• DVm = Dark Venom
• EYE = The Guiding Eye
• GE = The Guiding Eye
• GEM = Gem of Nightmares
• GoK = Gifts of Khaine
• GoM = Gem of Nightmares
• HyT = The Hydra’s Teeth
• PoIB = Pearl of Infinite Bleakeness
• PoK = Pendant of Khaeleth
• PoS = Potion of Strength
• PwR = Power Scroll
• RofD = Ring of Darkness
• RoH = Ring of Hotek
• RoHC - Righ of Hotek champion
• RoK = Rune of Khaine
• tGE = The Guiding Eye
• VHS= Van Horstman's Speculum
• WB = Witchbrew
Magic Spells
• BH = Black Horror
• BW = Bladewind
• CoW = Cry of War
• CW = Chillwind
• DB = Doombolt
• DoD = Dance of Doom
• DVm = Dark Venom
• IP = Infernal Puppet
• MB = Manbane
• Manb = Manbane
• PoD = Power of Darkness
• SS = Soul Stealer
• tGE = The Guiding Eye
• ToD = Touch of Death
• VHS= Van Horstman's Speculum
• WB = Witchbrew
• WoP: Word of Pain
ARMIES
• BoC = Beasts of Chaos
• Bret = Bretonians
• CD = Chaos Dwarfs
• DE = Dark Elves
• DoW = Dogs of War
• Dwarfs
• HE = High Elves
• HoC = Hordes of Chaos
• LM = Lizardmen
• O&G = Orcs and Goblins
• OK = Ogre Kingdoms
• RoC = Realm of Chaos
• Skaven
• TK = Tomb Kings
• VC = Vampire Counts
• WE = Wood Elves
• WoC = Warriors of Chaos
UNITS:
• BG = Black Guard
• CKoC = Chosen Knights of Chaos
• Co = Cold Ones
• CoB = Cauldron of Blood
• CoC = Cold One Chariot
• CoC = Cold One Chariots
• CoCh = Chariot of Chaos
• CoK = Cold One Knights
• CoS = Casket of Souls
• Cwo - Unequipped CO knights without command group (Cold ones without)
• DH = Death Hag
• DL = Dreadlord
• DP = Dragon Princes
• DR = Dark Riders
• EC = Elector count
• GE = Great Eagle
• GG = Grave Guard
• GK = Grail Knights
• GM = Grand Master
• GUO = Great Unclean One
• HP = High Priest
• KE = Knights Errant
• KoC = Knights of Chaos
• KoS = Keeper of Secrets
• KotR = Knights of the Realm
• KotWW = Knights of the White Wolf
• LoC = Lord of Change
• LP = Liche Priest
• MA = Master
• MoM = Master on Manticore
• MoP - Master on Pegasus
• Mus = musician
• RoHC - Righ of Hotek champion
• RoR = Regiments of Renown
• SH = Silver Helms
• Spearelves = Dark Elf Warriors
• SS = Supreme Sorceress
• SoP - Sorceress on pegasus (SSoP for supreme sorceress)
• SSC = Screaming Skull Catapult
• TFC - Tzeentch's flying circus (screamer army)
• TG = Tomb Guard
• WE = Witch Elves
• WMD - A 100 points item (Weapon of mass destruction) (Heard once on a tournament, went like this: A player was describing a 2250 battle against HE. He said something like: "He had a mage lord with some arcane WMD, 'twas a tough <an expression that describes a female canine>.")
• WP = Warrior Priest
• WW = Way Watchers
WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT:
• AHW = additional hand weapon
• AoD = Amour of Darkness
• AoES: Armor of Eternal Servitude
• BT = Bolt Thrower (Generic)
• BA - Blood Armour
• CB = Caledor's Bane
• FPA = Full Plate Armour
• GA = Gromril Armour
• GC = Great Cannons
• GW = great weapon
• HA = Halberd
• HA = Heavy Armour
• HLR = Hochland long rifle
• HVG = Hellblaster Volley Gun
• LA = Light Armour
• RatG = Ratling gun
• RBT = Reaper AKA Repeater Bolt Throwers
• RHB = Repeater Hand-Bows
• RP = Repeater Pistol
• RS = Rending Stars
• RXBow/RXB = Repeater cross bow
• SD = Sacrificial Dagger
• SDC = Sea Dragon Cloak
• SH = Shield
• STank= Steam Tank
• StD = Standard
• xbows = Repeater Cross-Bows
Banners: and Standards
• BCB = Banner of the Cold Blood AKA Banner of the Cold Ones
• BoHG = Banner of Hag Graef
• BoM = Banner of Murder
• BoN = Banner of Nagarythe
• BSB = Battle Standard Bearer
• DB = Dread Banner
• DrB = Dread Banner
• HB = Hydra Banner
• HyB = Hydra Banner
• SoHG = Standard of Hag Graef AKA Banner of Hag Graef
• SoS = Standarad of Slaughter
• SSS = Sea Serpent Standard ( Corsairs only)
Other
• AS = Army Selection
• FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions
• GD = Golden Daemon
• GT = Grand Tournament
• GW = Games Workshop
• IIRC = If I Remember Correctly
• IMHO: In my humble opinion
• IMO = In My Opinion
• Q&A = Questions and Answers
• SAD = Skaven (Skyre) Army of Doom
• SoC = Storm of Chaos
• WAAC= Win At All Costs
• WD = White Dwarf
• WFB = Warhammer Fantasy Battle
• WHFB = Warhammer Fantasy Battle
• WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
updated 1/04/010