acronyms Game Acronym listing

[Pony51 6,572]

Compiled a list of common acronyms you might see and hear in game, written for English audience with foreign info as appropriate..
PM me if I missed any.
Translations welcome!

National Abbreviations and Naming:

The games wiki.warthunder lists of all the nations abbreviations.  Spend a moment to look though.

 

General:

GJ     Gaijin (could also mean Good Job if used alone, during game chat and such)

MM   Match Maker, the system that groups players from various servers into a game.

Nerf  Means to make weaker, origin from "Nerf" foam toys soft enough not to cause damage when hits something.

Buff  Means to make stronger, like a weight lifter with bulging muscles is called "buff".

OP    Over Powered: unit is way to powerful, kills stuff just looking at it!

L2P  short for "Learn to Play", most often used when players complain "bomber gunners 2 OP, need Nerf!"  Seriously, L2P! (don't fly formation with enemy aircraft)  

AI     Artificial Intelligent, the game is smarter than you are and shot you down.

Bot   for Robot, another name for AI (above)

TL:DR  "Too long: Didn't Read", Posted information was over 4 sentences and reader was too lazy... er, BUSY, to read it all.  

 

 

UTC Coordinated Universal Time , the high precision 1963 successor to GMT (below), in aviation and nautical reporting is called " Zulu (time) "
GMT      Greenwich Mean Time, nautical time zone with Prime Meridian (0 hour) in Greenwich, direct foundation for UTC and still often used, but not longer official.
AM/PM  "AM" Latin phrase for Ante Meridiem "before noon" (00:00:00 ~ 11:59:59), and "PM" for Post Meridiem "after noon" (12:00:00 ~ 11:59:59)
24h       24 hour time, from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59.

Diso/DC/dumped/booted - lost connection to server / disconnected from...

 

Typed Communications:
kk      (understood) origin: "k, kool"
cc      (copy that/understood) origin: EIther "Click Click" of pilots mic as informal acknowledgement of non-critical message, or old typing shorthand for "carbon copy".
vox     voice comms

TS     Team Speak (or TeamSpeek)

hf     have fun,

gl       good luck,

dh      die hard

GG     Good Game

FM    Flight Model
DM    Damage Model

LoD   Level of Detail
 

Air Forces names (see the full, detailed list in Abbreviations Wiki)

Allied air forces (major powers):
VVS / AV-MF Voyenno Vozdushnye Sily ( Военно-воздушные силы (СССР), literally "Military Air Forces (of Soviet Union)") / Aviacija vojenno-morskogo flota ( Авиация военно-морского флота, Maritime Military Fleet Aviation)
RAF/FAA Royal Air Force & Fleet Air Arm United Kingdom (note UK Commonwealth air forces RAAF, RNZAF, RCAF, RIAF).
USAAF/USN United States Army Air Force (in 1947 made separate branch, dropped "Army", thus USAF), / United States Navy

Axis air forces (major powers):
LW Luftwaffe, Germany  (German wiki)
RA Regia Aeronautica Italiana (Italiano wik) (all units incorporated in German branch)
DTK     Dainippon Teikoku <branch> Kōkūbutai (大日本帝國<branch>軍航空隊, lit. Japanese Imperial <branch> Airforces). Imperial Japan (IJ) also had a Navy and Army (Navy was dominant) (English writing and wiki as IJN and IJA) The English phonetic of IJ use "DTK" **
 
** This acronyms is based on native saying of the forces, if not correct way to present please let me know.

Munitions, ammo basics (see this post for more explanations)

RCM    " Rifle Caliber Machine gun" (also RCMG or Medium MG), rounds 7~8mm (0.303in) in diameter

BB        nickname for RCM becuase RCM seem to do no damage, like BB's  (technically BB is 4.5mm / 0.177in diameter)

HMG    "Heavy Machine Gun", rounds 10 to 15mm in diameter (typical is 13mm and famous 50 caliber)

Cannon  Anything bigger than 15mm, most common is 20mm

 

Major classes for munitions (combinations of below possible, except for Ball):
HE      High Explosive type (link is for fragmentation type), effect like a mini-grenade (fragmentation type uses fragments with the HE effect)
AP      Armored Piercing
I          Incendiary (fire causing), often added suffix with AP (less often with HE)
T        Tracer, has easily visible tail, but design is less likely to cause fire, often added suffix to another type
"Ball"   Simple solid round, a Bullet; is it very cheap round and used for practice, replaced with more effective rounds in combat.

 

Bombs classes (extremely broad variety, this is just general list):
Kg/Lb  Kilograms (Kg) and Pounds (lb).  1 Kg = 2.2 Lb's.  Use for bomb weight, for simplicity divide Lb by 2 (500lb = 250Kg)
HE       High Explosive, explosive content is 50% or more

GP      General Purpose (less explosive fill), something in-between an HE and AP.

SAP    Semi-Armor Piercing. Similar to GP, but nose is hardened, 

AP       Armor piercing (hardened nose with delay timer, used against hardened objects and ships)

A-P      Anti-Personnel  (smaller grenade like bombs designed to scatter wide and equipped with variety of fuses

Mines  Air dropped mines against ships and vehicles

 

 

Forums

IBTL   NOT PERMITTED TO USE IN FORUMS  (means "In before the lock")

 

Other games you might see mentioned:

GJ     Gaijin Entertainment is the maker of WT and other games (do not confuse with Gaijin Games, totally different)
WT      War T... what was it now?
BGE     WWII Online: Battleground Europe a competing and very, very old MMO game with TRUE combined arms play.

WoP     Wings of Prey precursor to WT.

WoL     WIngs of Luftwaffe add on to WoP, expanding to WT.

BoS      Birds of Steel, it is the ps3 and xbox360 game that became War Thunder.
WoT     World of Tanks, from Wargaming.net, where survivors came from.
WoWP   World of Warplanes from Wargaming.net, competing sim

WoWS  World of Warships, see the trend?
IL-2      Old but still popular sim game when talking about games, engine for WoP, otherwise name of aircraft IL-2 Strumovik.
CoD     Cliffs of Dover, competing war sim games (less likely use if Call of Duty)
AH        Aces High,  competing air sim wargame.

AW       Air Warrior  (possibly the first multiplayer air combat game, closed Dec 7, 2001)
WB       Warbirds  (very old game still being updated)

RoFU - Rise of Flight United (competitor WW I flight simulator with multiplayer )

 

UI  (User Interface):
GE      Gold Eagles - Purchased with real money is the major currency that can be exchanged for SL, XP, CS, or special equipment.
SL     Silver Lions - Minor currency earned while playing and used to purchase all manner of items, from airplanes to upgrades to munitions.
RP   ( blue light bulb )   Previously "e XP eriance" (details here) - points earned to unlock the next selected aircraft upgrade, and toward next unit (earned in game or can be purchased from GE).
CS       Crew Skill eXPerience Points , earned playing and applied to each crew slot, can be purchased from GE (suggest to reach 10 CREW LEVEL as quickly as possible, then be more selective).

AB               Arcade Battles (easy flight and DM model, use any or all aircraft in lineup)
RB (HB)       Realistic Battles (formally Historic Battles (realistic FM, DM, only 1 aircraft))
SB (FRB)     Simulated Battles (formally Full Real Battle) (like HB, but cockpit view only, no markers on any aircraft, object.)

EC Enduring Confrontation, hours long (usually 3) event in SIM mode that players join.  Big maps and access to lineup makes for very open game play.

PvE Player versus Environment special events

PvP Player versus Player special events
 

In game:

EA  Enemy Aircraft
ET  Enemy Tank
EB  Enemy Boat
PB  Pillbox, bunker.
AA or AAA  Anti-Air Armament (yes, enemy)

 

Alpha    Markers (airfields, buildings) with "A"

Bravo    Markers with "B"

Charlie  Markers with "C"

Delta     Markers with "D"

Echo     Markers with "E" (Naval and Air EC only) 

Foxtrot  Markers with "F" (Naval and Air EC only)

Gulf      Markers with "G" (Naval and Air EC only)

 

BnZ     Boom and Zoom, diving in, attacking target, fly away; used by less maneuverable but fast aircraft
TnB     Turn and Burn, turn with target until flaming mess; used by maneuverable aircraft.
TG      Tail Gunner, defensive gun on aircraft that have them (usually but not always refere to rear one).

RTB - Returning to base (if addressing someone else, add their name)
WT or WP - Way Point (path to follow)
IP - Initial Approach (point where bomber turns to target and starts run)

BUFF  Bomber (Big Ugly Fat "Fella",  a term first used with B-52's, bit of a time-warp term)

LF       Little Friends, fighters

 

“o'clock”      simple method of indicating direction to object based on analog clock face laid over aircraft (see image at below).
High/Low    simple method to indicate height of object in relation to formation, often said with clock direction (ie. 12 O'Clock High!!)
666 (or any combination of 6)     EA behind someone (maybe YOU!), on their "6 o'clock position"

 

http://www.303rdbg.com/sop-gunners-clock.jpg

 

 

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj    Someone *trying* to bail out.

 

Edited November 8, 2021 by Pony51
Added Wiki link

[Pony51 6,572]

Updated to changes in game. 

Read, learn, kick butt!!  :)s

[darkyeti1974 7]

Thanks from the less technical savvy, like myself! :salute:

[Youda008 2,791]

Hello guys.

 

I still remember the feeling, when i logged into the forum for the first time, started reading posts, and got totaly confused of all of those slang words, acronyms, shortened forms of the often used words like AB, HB, RB, BR, MM, props, nerfed, buffed, ...

So my idea is: It would maybe make the life easier for beginners, if we could write them down at one place with some explanation.

 

I know there are so many of them, so i can't cover them all in first attempt. Please feel free to add anything else in the replies, or correct me if i am wrong somewhere. I will try to update this post time to time to make it correct and complete.

For moderators: if you find better place for this topic, please move it there, but not into some hidden corner of the forum.

 

Here we go:

• AB - arcade battles
   
• RB(HB) - realistic battles (some people say historical battles)
   
• SB(FRB) - simulator battles (some people say fully realistic battles)
   
• BR - battle rating
  a number assigned to a plane, indicating how the plane is performing in battles according to statistics, used for match making
   
• MM - match making
  the thing, which makes you angry everytime you want to play some fair match :D it's the system, which scans queue of waiting players and selects those, who will be fighting together in the next match by BRs of their planes
   
• FM - flight model
  flight properties of the plane and its behaviour in the air, what it does, when it turns, climbs, ...
   
• DM - damage model
  behaviour of the plane after it gets hit, what parts fall off, which mechanisms stop working, how it changes flying behaviour
   
• MA - mouse aim
  the first easiest control method used in AB and RB, where you simply point to a direction, where you want to fly, and instructor does all for you
   
• RoC - rate of climb
  how fast the plane gains altitude
   
• RoF - rate of fire
  how fast the guns fire
   
• IRL - no idea
   
• FOTM - no idea
   
• props - propeller powered aircrafts
  planes with the old propeller engine, those who aren't jets
   
• buffed - strenghtened
  plane got buffed in last patch = it is now better than before
   
• nerfed - weakened
  plane got nerfed in last patch = it is now worse than before

 

[r0lt0ns 2,444]

Intereseting :D

 

IRL - In Real Life maybe? Idk, just a guess

Thanks, I also were confused when saw those strange words :Ds

 

EDIT:

 

AAh, got one -

 

l2p - (too) low to play

Means when player writes something bad about the gameplay (f.e. I got shot down by Swordfish, it's OP!!), but actually he/she is just to weak and can't play the game well

Edited January 30, 2015 by r0lt0ns

[Hunter12396 3,520]

IRL = In Real Life

[Rebelattack 513]

TL:DR = Too long didn't read but that is like everywhere and watch out because you can get warning points for it  :Os

[swedeonthemoose 12,809]

FOTM = flavor of the month

[Dege 606]

FOTM means Flavour Of The Month - a plane/tank that everyone and their extended family plays because it is in someway broken/unbalanced and thus overperforming in one way or another, making it very popular.

[Pacifica 15,971]

Think its a good idea, not sure if there is already one like that... will move Topic where it can be of use

[Youda008 2,791]

isn't L2P rather "learn to play" ?

[r0lt0ns 2,444]

isn't L2P rather "learn to play" ?

there are some places where the word "low" is used instead of nooob, so it's basically the same thing - you are too low-skilled to play the game.. But maybe you're right, I don't actually know, but perhaps both are right..

[Eruantien697 1,098]

Might want to add on "rtb" - returning to base, it's a hold over from before the preset messages were improved and expanded that people still sometimes use.

[Einherjerne 195]

Just what I was looking for +1 and thanks  :salute:

It might be the time for the "forum people" (MODs / DEVs)   :lol:  to have it all collected and make as a topic under Academy for New Recruits,

and not as now scattered all over  :Os  it's FUBAR (F***** Up Beyond All Recognition)   :lol:

I could for sure have drawn benefit from knowing this at day one   ;)s  

 

... then again, scattering doesn't matter much according to this ( from: 2003)   :lol:  :lol:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Edited February 18, 2015 by Einherjerne

[Lt_GetAwayFromMe 465]

I'd like to add "GTFO". Said to killstealers, meaning: "get the flaming onion" where a flaming onion stands for a particularly fiery crash.

So you're wishing the killstealer a violent death in a nice way.

[Rhino-1938@psn 807]

On 1/30/2015 at 4:39 AM, r0lt0ns said:

Intereseting

 

IRL - In Real Life maybe? Idk, just a guess

Thanks, I also were confused when saw those strange words :Ds

 

EDIT:

 

AAh, got one -

 

l2p - (too) low to play

Means when player writes something bad about the gameplay (f.e. I got shot down by Swordfish, it's OP!!), but actually he/she is just to weak and can't play the game well

What does "D" mean ?

[r0lt0ns 2,444]

23 minutes ago, *rhino-ace said:

What does "D" mean ?

":Ds" was meants as a ":D" which is basically this -> 

 

But it has a different meaning too, if you know what I mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Guest]

So, I'm playing Arcade (LV1).  One of my team mates is pale green, and he seems to chat a lot.   He was certainly the best player on our team. Is he special?  I stayed on his flank except when he wanted me to threaten the enemy base late in the game; we won.

 

After the battle, I scanned scores and found that only the top three players out of ten scored credits, the pale green guy, me and one other.  The other team, only the top two earned any credits.  These zero score players made kills so who are they -- bots?  If they are bots, is there anyway to tell other than by behavior?

Edited January 29, 2018 by Guest
Added question

[krise_madsen 442]

11 hours ago, Hana3503 said:

So, I'm playing Arcade (LV1).  One of my team mates is pale green, and he seems to chat a lot.   He was certainly the best player on our team. Is he special?  I stayed on his flank except when he wanted me to threaten the enemy base late in the game; we won.

 

After the battle, I scanned scores and found that only the top three players out of ten scored credits, the pale green guy, me and one other.  The other team, only the top two earned any credits.  These zero score players made kills so who are they -- bots?  If they are bots, is there anyway to tell other than by behavior?

The pale green guy is your squad mate. You look pale green to him too, but not to anyone else.

 

Bots have single names like Sergei or Anna.

[whosmans 70]

what about CNN?