Game Acronym Thread

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(F)LGS - (Friendly) Local Game Store

Digits:

NWAC - Naval Warfare Arctic Circle
CoD - Call of Duty
MW - Modern Warfare (w/ or w/o the CoD prefix)
L4D - Left for Dead
GoW - Gears of War
TOAW - The Operational Art of War
CC:MT - Close Combat Modern Tactics
CC:M - Close Combat: Marine (gov't only)
CC:WAR - Close Combat Wacht Am Rhein
CC:___ - Lots of Close Combat options
FoF - Forge of Freedom
CoG - Crown of Glory
SP:___ - Steel Panthers series (with a lot of different acronyms after the SP)
WitP - War in the Pacific
WitPAE - War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition
BotF - Birth of the Federation
CoH - Company of Heros
BftB - Battles from the Bulge
ARMA2 - Armed Assault 2 (note the game refers to itself as ARMA2, not Armed Assault 2)
SMAC - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
WOW - World of Warcraft (though occasionally also, Wings of War)
WOFF - Wings Over Flanders Fields
FPG - Flashpoint Germany
FPC / FPCRS:  Flashpoint Campaigns / Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm

Civ4 - Civilization 4
Civ4___ - One of the Civ4 Expansions
Civ5 - Civilization 5
Civ5 G+K or G&K - Gods & Kings expansion for Civ 5
Civ5 BNW- Brave New World expansion for Civ 5


Tabletop:

WHFB - Warhammer Fantasy Battles
W40K - Warhammer 40,000
WHFRP - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

DD4e - Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition
DD3e - Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition
DD3.5 - Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition (the one Pathfinder is based on)
AD&D - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
OD&D - Original Dungeons and Dragons (predates the split between AD&D and the Basic/Expert/Companion series of games)


LNLP - Lock'n'Load Publishing (the company)
LnL - Lock'n'Load (the game)
LnL:DoH - Lock'n'Load: Day of Heroes
LnL:BoH - Lock'n'Load: Band of Heroes
LnL:HoG - Lock'n'Load: Heroes of the Gap
LnL:FH - Lock'n'Load: Forgotten Heroes (also, you'll see FH2, which is the v2 reprint)
LnL:HoB - Lock'n'Load: Heroes of the Blitzkrieg
W@W - World at War (also occasionally WaW), hypothetical WWIII around the globe
W@W:EG - World at War: Eisenbach Gap
W@W:BB - World at War: Blood and Bridges
W@W:OG - World at War: Operation Garbo
W@W:Do1P - World at War: Death of the First Panzer
W@W:TUS - World at War: The Untold Stories
W@W:PIB - World at War: Paris is Burning
N@W - Nations at War, the WWII game based on a similar system
DEL - Dawn's Early Light
CC:T - Corps Command: Totensontag
NW68 = Nuklear Winter '68


GMT - GMT Games (the company)
CC:E - Combat Commander: Europe
CC:M - Combat Commander: Med
CC:P - Combat Commander: Pacific

CoA - Clash of Arms (the company)

GBOH - Great Battles in History

MMP - Multi-Man Publishing
ASL - Advanced Squad Leader
ASLSK - Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit (frequently w/ a number after it to note which SK)
OCS - Operational Combat Series (from The Gamers / MMP)
SCS - Standard Combat Series (from The Gamers / MMP)
TCS - Tactical Combat Series (from The Gamers / MMP)
CWB - Civil War Brigade series of wargames (from The Gamers / MMP)
RCS - Regimental Combat Series (from The Gamers / MMP)

FFG - Fantasy Flight Games
ToI - Tide of Iron
WOW - Wings of War (though usually World of Warcraft)

LBG - Lost Battalion Games

CoH AtB = Conflict of Heroes Awakening the Bear
CoH SoS = Conflict of Heroes Storms of Steel
CoH PoH = Conflict of Heroes Price of Honour

MTG - Magic: The Gathering
CCG - Collectible Card Game
TCG - Trading Card Game (pretty much the same thing)

Websites/Communities:
GH - GrogHeads <-- all you really need to know, right? ;)
BGG - Boardgamegeek
GS - GameSquad
OO (or sometime O-O or O.O) - Octopus Overlords
WGer - Wargamer.com
ACG - Armchair General
FB - Facebook
G+ - Google Plus

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Barthheart

New one from LnLP

NW68 = Nuklear Winter '68

bob48

CoH AtB = Conflict of Heroes Awakening the Bear
CoH SoS = Conflict of Heroes Storms of Steel
CoH PoH = Conflict of Heroes Price of Honour

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

meadbelly

WitP =                           War in the Pacific
WitPAE =                       War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition
BotF =                            Birth of the Federation
CoH =                            Company of Heros
Bftb =                            Battles from the Bulge
ARMA2 =                        Armed Assault 2 (note the game refers to itself as ARMA2, not Armed Assault 2)
SMAC =                         Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri



bayonetbrant

WOFF = Wings over Flanders Fields
ROF = Rise of Flight
IL2: BOS = iL2: Battle of Stalingrad

NW1:OC = Next Wars 1: Orange Crush

BoB = Band of Brothers
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Staggerwing

Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

Silent Disapproval Robot

CMANO = Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations
WT = War Thunder

bob48

#7
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 31, 2014, 06:46:19 AM
UGA = Unknown Game Acronym

FOCS (Force One Coffee Spew)

ATS - Advanced Tobruk System (Critical Hit)
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Michael Dorosh

#8

SL:   Squad Leader
COI:  Cross of Iron
COD:  Crescendo of Doom
GI:   G.I.: Anvil of Victory(also GI:AoV)


BV:    Beyond Valor          (ASL Module 1)
Para:  Paratrooper           (ASL Module 2)
Yanks: Yanks                 (ASL Module 3)
Part:  Partisan              (ASL Module 4)
WoA:   West of Alamein       (ASL Module 5)
FKaC:  For King and Country  (ASL Module 5a)
LH:    The Last Hurrah       (ASL Module 6)
HL:    Hollow Legions        (ASL Module 7)
CoB:   Code of Bushido       (ASL Module 8)
GH:    Gung Ho!              (ASL Module 9)
CDG:   Croix de Guerre       (ASL Module 10)
DB:    Doomed Battalions     (ASL Module 11)
AoO:   Armies of Oblivion    (ASL Module 12)
RS:    Rising Sun            (ASL Module 13)
SOF:   Streets of Fire       (DASL Module 1)
HH:    Hedgerow Hell         (DASL Module 2)


RB:    Red Barricade         (HASL Module 1)
KGP:   Kampfgruppe Peiper    (HASL Module 2)
KGPII: Kampfgruppe Peiper II (HASL Module 3)
PB:    Pegasus Bridge        (HASL Module 4)
BRT:   Blood Reef Tarawa     (HASL Module 5)
ABTF:  A Bridge Too Far      (HASL Module 6)
VOTG:  Valor of the Guards   (HASL Module 7)