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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 Reference 1]] / [[http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7205 Reference 2]]
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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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