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Use the following list to demystify the various (mostly wesnoth specific) terms and acronyms you may run into.

Gaming Terms

ability: A special game rule or capability applied to all units of the given unit type - for example every Elvish Shaman has the ability "heal". (See AbilitiesWML for creating abilities.)

campaign: A sequence of scenarios with a connecting storyline. (MainlineCampaigns, Guide_to_UMC_Content, CampaignWML)

creeping biggerism: the tendency for sprite artists to make new sprites bigger and more detailed than the existing ones, leading to issues of scale.

era: A set of factions available in multiplayer. You can download additional eras from the add-on server. (EraWML)

faction: A set of units available to be plated as a side in multiplayer games. (multiplayer_side WML tag)

fog of war: A scenario option; enemy units are displayed only when close to player's units

mainline: A campaign, multiplayer map, era, faction, image, or other resource that ships with the Wesnoth distribution. The opposite of "UMC".

scenario: A sequence of turns played on one map. (ScenarioWML)

shroud: A scenario option; the whole map is black at the beginning, only parts already "discovered" by the player are visible.

team color (TColor, TC): A unit graphic done so that color of some unit part (e.g. clothes) reflects the team where unit belongs (Team Color Shifting)

trait: A random minor modification of a unit; it makes a unit different from other units of the same type. (the trait tag)

UMC: "User-Made content" or "User-Maintained Content", campaigns and other material that does not ship with the game but is available for download from the Wesnoth add-on server.

Wescamp: The (former) project for translating unofficial user-made campaigns

zone of control (ZoC): game rule; when a unit moves to a hex adjacent to enemy unit, it usually cannot move further.

zone-locked: said of a unit that has entered an enemy ZoC and therefore cannot move further (often just "zoced" for short).

Wesnothian Acronyms

AI - Artificial Intelligence (An 'AI side' is a side controlled by the computer)
AF - After the Fall of Wesnoth (AtF may also be used outside of the Wesnoth Calendar)
AMLA - After Maximum Level Advancement
AoH - Age of Heroes
BfM - Battle for Meridia
BfW - Battle for Wesnoth (the name of the game)
BWH - Been suggested before. We think it's a good idea. Hope to add it eventually.
CABD - Can Already Be Done, e.g., you can already create custom unit abilities via WML.
CtH - Chance to Hit (also C2H)
CtBH - Chance to Be Hit (also C2BH)
CtK - Chance to Kill (also C2K)
CtBK - Chance to Be Killed (also C2BK)
FoW - Fog of War (i.e. fog)
FFA - Free For All (playing a map with >2 players without teams)
FPI - Frequently Posted Idea (read the Post from the Ideas Forum)
HANE—EtH - Hexes Are Not Evil - Embrace the Hex
HAPMA - Hexes Are Possibly Miles Across
HP - Hit points
IIRWIIR - It Is Ready When It Is Ready
IPF - Image Path Function
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid: Applies to coding, not game rules (although indirectly it does): see WesnothPhilosophy
MAI - Micro AI: see: Micro_AIs
MP - Multiplayer or Movement Points
MUB - Massive Unit Blobs
N3T - No 3-Teams; A belief stating that contests between three equal and opposing forces are inherently unbalanced
OAB - Options Are Bad; In reference to gameplay, not user interface options. Mostly used by Turin.
OFWRA - Old Flame War Revival Alert; In other words, we have discussed this before and have no interest in discussing it again, especially if it got ugly
OOS - Out Of Sync - an error generated by Wesnoth. OOS errors occur when game data for one player is different/incompatible from the others
PoD - Paths of Daggers, the name of a 2v2 multiplayer map.
RiPLIB - Reduction in Power when Leveling Is Bad: means that when a unit upgrades, at least one of its options should be strictly superior to the original unit. Reference 1 / Reference 2
RNG - Random Number Generator
RPG - Role Playing Game - 1) Wesnoth's experience system. 2) An "RPG-style" game on the MP server means the primary focus will be walking your leader-units through a scripted storyline involving map exploration and lots of WML.
RTS - Real Time Strategy Game - as opposed to a turn-based game like Wesnoth
SLF - StandardLocationFilter
SP - Single Player (Campaigns)
SSF - StandardSideFilter
SUF - StandardUnitFilter
TBS - Turn Based Strategy Game, like Wesnoth
ToD - Time of Day
TTK - Time To Kill
TWP - The Wesnoth Philosophy: WesnothPhilosophy
UAPEB - Units Are Possibly Entire Battalions
WICOT - WML is capable of this (the requested feature is already possible to script, so no need to hard-code it in C++)
WINR - Wesnoth Is Not Realistic
WIN_ - Wesnoth Is Not... (Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, medieval Europe, an RPG, a wargame, a war simulation, Fire Emblem, etc.)
WML - Wesnoth Markup Language: ReferenceWML
XP - Experience (also EXP)
ZoC - Zone of Control

Names of Mainline Campaigns and Scenarios

AOI - An Orcish Incursion (Removed from Mainline on 1.15)
DiD - Descent into Darkness
DM - Delfador's Memoirs
DW - Dead Water
EI - The Eastern Invasion
HttT - Heir to the Throne
- BoP - Bay of Pearls
- DD - Dwarven Doors
- HotNE - Home of the North Elves
- IotD - Isle of the Damned
- RtW - Return to Wesnoth
- SoE - Siege of Elensefar
- SoF - Sceptre of Fire
- TotC - Test of the Clans
IoM - Isle of Mists (MP, mainlined in 1.15)
LoW - Legend of Wesmere
NR - Northern Rebirth
SoF - Sceptre of Fire
SotA - Secrets of the Ancient
SotBE - Son of the Black Eye
TB (or AToTB) - A Tale of Two Brothers
THoT - The Hammer of Thursagan
TRoW - The Rise of Wesnoth
TSG - The South Guard
UtBS - Under the Burning Suns
WC - World Conquest (MP, mainlined in 1.15)
WoF - Winds of Fate (formerly WoV for Wings of Victory or Wings of Valor)

Unofficial Campaigns

ANO - A New Order
AotDS - Aria of the Dragon Slayer
ARL - A Rough Life
ASoF - A Song of Fire
AtS - After the Storm
BCoA - Black Cross of Aleron
BMR - Bad Moon Rising
BW - Brave Wings
CCamp - Custom Campaign
FoaP - Fate of a Princess
FTC - Forward They Cried
FtF - Flight to Freedom
Gns - Genesis
HoI1 - Hero of Irdya - Book I
IftU - Invasion from the Unknown
IQ - Inky's Quest
LotI - Legend of the Invincibles
SE - Saving Elensefar
SfF - Struggle for Freedom
TBC - The Beautiful Child
TDH - The Dark Hordes
TEG - The Earth's Gut
TFE - The Final Exam
TLU - To Lands Unknown
TSL - The Silver Lands
TSoG - The Sojournings of Grog
WotJ - War of the Jewel

Unofficial MP Eras

AE - Ageless Era/Archaic Era
ANLE - A New Land Era
EEaW - 17th Century Eastern Europe at War
EoM - Era of Myths
EoMa - Era of Magic
GSE - Great Steppe Era
IE - Imperial Era
RE - Rashy Era
RotL/Rotl - Reign of The Lords
WoL - War of Legends

Unit Jargon

bird - usually Gryphon Rider/Master (knalgans), or occasionally a Falcon or Eagle Rider from the Extended Era Aragwaith and Kalifa factions.
DA - Dark Adept (undead)
DF - Dunefolk
fish - Merman (loyalists or rebels) or Naga Fighter (northerners)
frog - a Saurian, especially "magic frog" for an Augur
gobo - An affectionate, if somewhat derogatory term for the Goblin Spearman
gunner - Dwarvish Thunderer/Thunderguard/Dragonguard (knalgans)
HI - Heavy Infantryman (loyalists)
KA - Knalgan Alliance
MoL - Mage of Light (loyalists or rebels)
pyro - Unit in the Drake Burner line
UD - Undead
Ulf - Dwarvish Ulfserker (knalgans)
WC - Walking Corpse (undead)
zombie - Walking Corpse

General Acronyms

AFaICT - As Far as I Can Tell (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
AFaIK - As Far as I Know (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
AFaIU - As Far as I Understand (likewise)
AfK - Away from the Keyboard
ASaP - As Soon as Possible
BRB - Be Right Back
BtW - By the Way (A statement with a disclaimer on relevance)
DTRT - Do The Right Thing (expectation for how something should work)
EV - Expected Value
FTR - For The Record
FUBAR - F***ed up beyond all repair / reason
FWIW - For what it's worth
FYI - For Your Information
GG - Good Game (a common courtesy to say after a multiplayer game; alternatively "GGWP" for "Good Game, Well Played")
GtG - Got to Go
IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer (A disclaimer that a statement may not constitute legal advice.)
IDK - I Don't Know
IIRC - If I Recall/Remember Correctly (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
IIUC - If I Understand Correctly (Similar to IIRC, but not implying that the speaker once knew with certainty.)
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion (A statement with a disclaimer on objectiveness) (can also be read as "In My Honest Opinion")
IMO - In My Opinion
IYSWIM - If You See What I Mean (A statement seeking agreement)
LGTM - Looks Good To Me (used by maintainers when approving Pull Requests on GitHub)
LMAO - Laughing My A** Off
LTNS - Long Time No See
OMG - oh my god(s)
OP - either "OverPowered", "Original Post", or "Original Poster", depending on context.
OT - Off Topic: can refer either to the forum category ([1]) or to spam
OtOH - On the Other Hand (A contrast)
PR - Pull Request (in the context of contributing to a project like Wesnoth on GitHub; other projects that use other issue trackers use it to mean Problem Report instead)
QFT - Quote For Truth
RotFL - Rolling on the Floor Laughing; also RoFL
RtFM - Read the F***ing Manual
TTYL - Talk To You Later
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary (a disclaimer allowing for subjectivity)

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 ; campaign: A sequence of scenarios with a connecting storyline. ([[MainlineCampaigns]], [[Guide_to_UMC_Content]], [[CampaignWML]])
+; creeping biggerism: the tendency for sprite artists to make new sprites bigger and more detailed than the existing ones, leading to issues of scale.
 ; era: A set of factions available in multiplayer.  You can download additional eras from the [[Guide_to_UMC_Content|add-on server]]. ([[EraWML]])
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 ; UMC: "User-Made content" or "User-Maintained Content", campaigns and other material that does not ship with the game but is available for download from the [[Guide_to_UMC_Content|Wesnoth add-on server]].
-; [[WesCamp|Wescamp]]: The project for translating unofficial user-made campaigns
+; [[WesCamp|Wescamp]]: The (former) project for translating unofficial user-made campaigns
 ; zone of control (ZoC): game rule; when a unit moves to a hex adjacent to enemy unit, it usually cannot move further.
-; zone-locked: said of a unit that has entered an enemy ZoC and therefor cannot move further.
+; zone-locked: said of a unit that has entered an enemy ZoC and therefore cannot move further (often just "zoced" for short).
 == Wesnothian Acronyms ==
 *AI      - Artificial Intelligence (An 'AI side' is a side controlled by the computer)
+*AF      - After the Fall of Wesnoth (AtF may also be used outside of the Wesnoth Calendar)
 *AMLA    - After Maximum Level Advancement
 *AoH     - Age of Heroes
 *BfM     - Battle for Meridia
 *BfW     - Battle for Wesnoth (the name of the game)
-*BWH     - Been suggested before.  We think it's a good idea.  Hope to add it eventually.
+*BWH     - '''B'''een suggested before.  '''W'''e think it's a good idea.  '''H'''ope to add it eventually.
 *CABD    - Can Already Be Done, e.g., you can already create custom unit abilities via WML.
 *CtH     - Chance to Hit (also C2H)
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 *HP      - Hit points
 *IIRWIIR - It Is Ready When It Is Ready
+*IPF     - [[ImagePathFunctions|Image Path Function]]
 *KISS    - Keep It Simple, Stupid: Applies to coding, not game rules (although indirectly it does): see [[WesnothPhilosophy]]
+*MAI     - Micro AI: see: [[Micro_AIs]]
 *MP      - Multiplayer or Movement Points
+*MUB     - Massive Unit Blobs
 *N3T     - No 3-Teams; A belief stating that contests between three equal and opposing forces are inherently unbalanced
-*OAB     - Options Are Bad; In reference to gameplay, not user interface options.  Mostly used by Turin. See also [[FrequentlyProposedIdeas]] (idea #1)
+*OAB     - Options Are Bad; In reference to gameplay, not user interface options.  Mostly used by Turin.
 *OFWRA   - Old Flame War Revival Alert; In other words, we have discussed this before and have no interest in discussing it again, especially if it got ugly
 *OOS     - Out Of Sync - an error generated by Wesnoth.  OOS errors occur when game data for one player is different/incompatible from the others
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 *TBS     - Turn Based Strategy Game, like Wesnoth
 *ToD     - Time of Day
+*TTK     - Time To Kill
 *TWP     - The Wesnoth Philosophy: [[WesnothPhilosophy]]
-*UAPEB  -Units Are Possibly Entire Battalions
+*UAPEB   - Units Are Possibly Entire Battalions
-*UMC    - User Made Campaign or User Made Content (any add-on not packaged with Wesnoth)
+*WICOT   - WML is capable of this (the requested feature is already possible to script, so no need to hard-code it in C++)
-*WICOT  - WML is capable of this (the requested feature is already possible to script, so no need to hard-code it in C++)
 *WINR    - Wesnoth Is Not Realistic
-*WIN_    - Wesnoth Is Not... (Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, medieval Europe, an RPG, a wargame, a war simulation, etc.)
+*WIN_    - Wesnoth Is Not... (Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, medieval Europe, an RPG, a wargame, a war simulation, Fire Emblem, etc.)
 *WML     - Wesnoth Markup Language: [[ReferenceWML]]
-*XP      - Experience
+*XP      - Experience (also EXP)
 *ZoC     - Zone of Control
 == Names of Mainline Campaigns and Scenarios ==
-*AoI      - ''An Orcish Incursion''
+*AOI           - ''An Orcish Incursion'' (Removed from Mainline on 1.15)
-*DiD      - ''Descent into Darkness''
+*DiD           - ''Descent into Darkness''
-*DM       - ''Delfador's Memoirs''
+*DM            - ''Delfador's Memoirs''
-*DW      - ''Dead Water''
+*DW            - ''Dead Water''
-*EI       - ''The Eastern Invasion''
+*EI            - ''The Eastern Invasion''
-*HttT     - ''Heir to the Throne''
+*HttT          - ''Heir to the Throne''
-** BoP    - ''Bay of Pearls''
+** BoP         - ''Bay of Pearls''
-** DD     - ''Dwarven Doors''
+** DD          - ''Dwarven Doors''
-** HotNE  - ''Home of the North Elves''
+** HotNE       - ''Home of the North Elves''
-** IotD   - ''Isle of the Damned''
+** IotD        - ''Isle of the Damned''
-** RtW    - ''Return to Wesnoth''
+** RtW         - ''Return to Wesnoth''
-** SoE    - ''Siege of Elensefar''
+** SoE         - ''Siege of Elensefar''
-** SoF    - ''Sceptre of Fire''
+** SoF         - ''Sceptre of Fire''
-** TotC   - ''Test of the Clans''
+** TotC        - ''Test of the Clans''
-*LoW      - ''Legend of Wesmere''
+*IoM           - ''Isle of Mists'' (MP, mainlined in 1.15)
-*NR       - ''Northern Rebirth''
+*LoW           - ''Legend of Wesmere''
-*SoF      - ''Sceptre of Fire''
+*NR            - ''Northern Rebirth''
-*SotBE    - ''Son of the Black Eye''
+*SoF           - ''Sceptre of Fire''
-*TB       - ''A Tale of Two Brothers''
+*SotA          - ''Secrets of the Ancient''
-*THoT     - ''The Hammer of Thursagan''
+*SotBE         - ''Son of the Black Eye''
-*TRoW     - ''The Rise of Wesnoth''
+*TB (or AToTB) - ''A Tale of Two Brothers''
-*TSG      - ''The South Guard''
+*THoT          - ''The Hammer of Thursagan''
-*UtBS     - ''Under the Burning Suns''
+*TRoW          - ''The Rise of Wesnoth''
+*TSG           - ''The South Guard''
+*UtBS          - ''Under the Burning Suns''
+*WC            - ''World Conquest'' (MP, mainlined in 1.15)
+*WoF           - ''Winds of Fate'' (formerly WoV for ''Wings of Victory'' or ''Wings of Valor'')
 == Unofficial Campaigns ==
+*ANO      - ''A New Order''
+*AotDS    - ''Aria of the Dragon Slayer''
+*ARL      - ''A Rough Life''
+*ASoF     - ''A Song of Fire''
 *AtS      - ''After the Storm''
+*BCoA     - ''Black Cross of Aleron''
+*BMR      - ''Bad Moon Rising''
 *BW       - ''Brave Wings''
+*CCamp    - ''Custom Campaign''
 *FoaP     - ''Fate of a Princess''
+*FTC      - ''Forward They Cried''
 *FtF      - ''Flight to Freedom''
+*Gns      - ''Genesis''
+*HoI1     - ''Hero of Irdya - Book I''
 *IftU     - ''Invasion from the Unknown''
+*IQ       - ''Inky's Quest''
 *LotI     - ''Legend of the Invincibles''
 *SE       - ''Saving Elensefar''
+*SfF      - ''Struggle for Freedom''
+*TBC      - ''The Beautiful Child''
+*TDH      - ''The Dark Hordes''
+*TEG      - ''The Earth's Gut''
+*TFE      - ''The Final Exam''
+*TLU      - ''To Lands Unknown''
+*TSL      - ''The Silver Lands''
 *TSoG     - ''The Sojournings of Grog''
+*WotJ     - ''War of the Jewel''
 <div id="Unit_Names"></div>
+== Unofficial MP Eras ==
+*AE  - ''Ageless Era/Archaic Era''
+*ANLE - ''A New Land Era''
+*EEaW - ''17th Century Eastern Europe at War''
+*EoM - ''Era of Myths''
+*EoMa - ''Era of Magic''
+*GSE - ''Great Steppe Era''
+*IE - ''Imperial Era''
+*RE - ''Rashy Era''
+*RotL/Rotl - ''Reign of The Lords''
+*WoL - ''War of Legends''
 == Unit Jargon ==
-*bird    - usually Gryphon Rider/Master (knalgans), or occasionally a Falcon or Eagle Rider from the [[Extended Era]] Aragwaith and Kalifa factions.
+*bird    - usually Gryphon Rider/Master (knalgans), or occasionally a Falcon or Eagle Rider from the [//units.wesnoth.org/1.14/Extended_Era/en_US/era_extended_37.0.0.0.html Extended Era] Aragwaith and Kalifa factions.
 *DA      - Dark Adept (undead)
+*DF      - Dunefolk
 *fish    - Merman (loyalists or rebels) or Naga Fighter (northerners)
 *frog    - a Saurian, especially "magic frog" for an Augur
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 *gunner  - Dwarvish Thunderer/Thunderguard/Dragonguard (knalgans)
 *HI      - Heavy Infantryman (loyalists)
+*KA      - Knalgan Alliance
 *MoL     - Mage of Light (loyalists or rebels)
 *pyro    - Unit in the Drake Burner line
+*UD      - Undead
 *Ulf     - Dwarvish Ulfserker (knalgans)
 *WC      - Walking Corpse (undead)
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 *AFaICT  - As Far as I Can Tell (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
 *AFaIK   - As Far as I Know (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
+*AFaIU   - As Far as I Understand (likewise)
 *AfK     - Away from the Keyboard
 *ASaP    - As Soon as Possible
 *BRB     - Be Right Back
 *BtW     - By the Way (A statement with a disclaimer on relevance)
+*DTRT    - Do The Right Thing (expectation for how something should work)
 *EV      - Expected Value
+*FTR     - For The Record
 *FUBAR   - F***ed up beyond all repair / reason
+*FWIW    - For what it's worth
 *FYI     - For Your Information
+*GG      - Good Game (a common courtesy to say after a multiplayer game; alternatively "GGWP" for "Good Game, Well Played")
 *GtG     - Got to Go
 *IANAL   - I Am Not A Lawyer (A disclaimer that a statement may not constitute legal advice.)
 *IDK     - I Don't Know
 *IIRC    - If I Recall/Remember Correctly (A statement with a disclaimer on truthfulness)
-*IIUC    - If I Understand Correctly(Similar to IIRC, but not implying that the speaker once knew with certainty.)
+*IIUC    - If I Understand Correctly (Similar to IIRC, but not implying that the speaker once knew with certainty.)
-*IMHO    - In My Humble Opinion (A statement with a disclaimer on objectiveness)
+*IMHO    - In My Humble Opinion (A statement with a disclaimer on objectiveness) (can also be read as "In My Honest Opinion")
 *IMO     - In My Opinion
 *IYSWIM  - If You See What I Mean (A statement seeking agreement)
+*LGTM    - Looks Good To Me (used by maintainers when approving Pull Requests on GitHub)
+*LMAO    - Laughing My A** Off
 *LTNS    - Long Time No See
 *OMG     - oh my god(s)
-*OT      - Off Topic: can refer either to the forum category (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=11) or to spam
+*OP      - either "OverPowered", "Original Post", or "Original Poster", depending on context.
+*OT      - Off Topic: can refer either to the forum category ([http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=11]) or to spam
 *OtOH    - On the Other Hand (A contrast)
+*PR      - Pull Request (in the context of contributing to a project like Wesnoth on GitHub; other projects that use other issue trackers use it to mean Problem Report instead)
 *QFT     - Quote For Truth
 *RotFL   - Rolling on the Floor Laughing; also RoFL
 *RtFM    - Read the F***ing Manual
+*TTYL    - Talk To You Later
+*YMMV    - Your Mileage May Vary (a disclaimer allowing for subjectivity)
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Contents

Gaming Terms

Wesnothian Acronyms

Names of Mainline Campaigns and Scenarios

Unofficial Campaigns

Unofficial MP Eras

Unit Jargon

General Acronyms