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| Use the following list to demystify the various (mostly wesnoth specific) acronyms you may run into at the forum.
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| <!-- NOTE TO EDITORS: Please try to keep an alphabetic order to simplify manual searching -->
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| == Official Campaigns ==
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| *EI - "The Eastern Invasion" (campaign name)
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| *HttT - "Heir to the Throne" (campaign name)
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| ** BoP - "Bay of Pearls" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** DD - "Dwarven Doors" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** HotNE - "Home of the North Elves" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** IotD - "Isle of the Damned" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** RtW - "Return to Wesnoth" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** SoE - "Siege of Elensefar" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** SoF - "Scepter of Fire" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** TotC - "Test of the Clans" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| ** VoD - "Valley of Death" (scenario in "Heir to the Throne" campaign)
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| *SotBE - "Son of the Black Eye" (campaign name)
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| *TDH - "The Dark Hordes" (campaign name)
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| *TRoW - "The Rise of Wesnoth" (campaign name)
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| == Unofficial Campaigns ==
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| *FtF - "Flight to Freedom" (campaign name)
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| *LOW - "Legends of Wesmere" (campaign name)
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| *SE - "Saving Elensefar" (campaign name)
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| *SG - "The South Guard" (campaign name)
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| *SoF - "Scepter of Fire" (campaign name)
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| *UtBS - "Under the Burning Suns" (campaign name)
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| == Forum Language ==
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| *AMLA - After Maximum Level Advancement
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| *BfW - Battle for Wesnoth (the name of the game)
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| *BWH - Been suggested before. We think it's a good idea. Hope to add it eventually.
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| *CtH - Chance to Hit (also C2H)
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| *CtbH - Chance to be Hit (also C2bH)
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| *CtK - Chance to Kill (also C2K)
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| *CtbK - Chance to be Killed (also C2bK)
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| *CVS - up-to-date Wesnoth: [[WesnothCVS]]
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| *EP - Elvish Pillager, moderator and great man :) at forum
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| *FoW - Fog of War (i.e. fog)
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| *FFA - Free For All (playing a map with >2 players without teams)
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| *HAPMA - Hexes Are Possibly Miles Across - http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1882
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| *HP - Hit points
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| *IIRWIIR - It Is Ready When It Is Ready
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| *KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid: Applies to coding, not game rules (although indirectly it does): see [[WesnothPhilosophy]]
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| *MP - Movement points
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| *MP - Multiplayer
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| *MOL - Mage of Light
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| *Mr. A - Assasin when he's being an you know what
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| *OAB - Options are Bad; mostly used by Turin
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| *OFWRA - Old Flame War Revival Alert
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| *OT - Off Topic: can refer to either the forum (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=11) or spam
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| *RIPLIB - Reducing In Power Levelling Is Bad: means that when a unit upgrades, at least one of its options should be strictly superior to the original unit. http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1423
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| *RPG - Role Playing Game - Wesnoth's experience system: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4385
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| *RTFM - Read The Manual
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| *RTS - Real Time Strategy Game - not Wesnoth
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| *SP - Single Player (Campaigns)
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| *TBS - Turn Based Strategy Game - Wesnoth
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| *TWP - The Wesnoth Philosophy: [[WesnothPhilosophy]]
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| *WC - Walking Corpses
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| *WINR - Wesnoth Is Not Realistic
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| *WIN_ - Wesnoth Is Not... (Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, medieval Europe, an RPG, etc.)
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| *WML - Wesnoth Markup Language: [[ReferenceWML]]
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| *XP - Experience
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| *ZOC - Zone of Control
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| == General Acronyms ==
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| *AFAICT - As Far As I Can Tell
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| *AFAIK - As Far As I Know (Another statement with a disclaimer
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| *BTW - By the Way (A statement with a disclaimer on relevance)
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| *OtOH - On the Other Hand (A contrast)
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| *EV - Expected Value
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| *IIRC - If I Recall Correctly (A statement with a disclaimer)
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| *IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
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| *IMO - In My Opinion
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| == See Also ==
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| * http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1786 for links to general-acronym search engines.
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