Axis and Allies Acronyms Commonly Used

[Yavid]

Is he an Army guy? if so then I understand. I’m an army brat myself and that’s the only College football (by that i mean sports) game my dad would ever watch was The Army/Navy game.

[Gargantua]

LOL, Yavid, I mean no offense. I was being sarcastic, but that gets lost over the internet.

There are only a handful of things that drive me abosolutely bonkers in life, and although the list is short… annoying internet acronymns are close to the top.

If the average user can’t undestand it, or the acronymn uses letters that aren’t from the word and DELIBERATELY make things confusing, then the purpose of using an acronymn is faulted, and the user trying to communicate has FAILED.

It doesn’t help that the listed acronyms also are associated with the Navy. :P

[Yavid]

I very much agree that using letters that appear nowhere in the word or words is alittle insane. The Navy being the biggest offender. I mean look at them top to bottom BB (battleship) CV (Aircraft Carrier) CA (Cruiser) CL (Light Cruiser) DD (Destroyer) SS (Submarine) AP (Transport) and even PT (Torpedo Boat) not one of them fit. I’m a much bigger fan of short hand like Inf. Art. Fig. Bmb.

[Gargantua]

Precisely.

a 3 letter acronym system is superior. :)

[Hobbes]

@Gargantua:

Precisely.

a 3 letter acronym system is superior. :)

I go for being practical: using an already established system beats having to reinvent the wheel.

A few missing/typos:

IC - Industrial Complex
KBF- Kill Britain First
KIF - Kill Italy First

[djensen]

It’s only established for a few players, like the folks on this forum. However, newer players are not familiar with it.

[Hobbes]

@djensen:

It’s only established for a few players, like the folks on this forum. However, newer players are not familiar with it.

Some terms are pretty much established with the A&A community, I’d say, like KGF, OOB, etc., since their use started with Classic.
For newer players it is also better to use the US Navy system because if they know any system then that would most likely be it.
And I’m not a US citizen so I don’t really mind whether the Army or the Navy rules :)

[Yavid]

My hope is to have a source where someone reading the boards would see something they don’t know what it means check here and go back to reading. I’m not trying to standardize the lang. at all

[Yavid]

Thank you Hobbes for your help and the list is updated.

[Imperious Leader]

All those Acronyms are spot on. They are the most common ways to make notation of games easier.

[sgtwiltan]

What’s a NO?

[CWO Marc]

@sgtwiltan:

What’s a NO?

National Objective.

By the way, there’s another acronyms thread over here:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=7842.30

[Yavid]

List updated

[Gargantua]

What’s a NO?

It means buy her aNOther drink.

[Yavid]

@Gargantua:

What’s a NO?

It means buy her aNOther drink.

I thought “maybe” was “buy me another drink”

[Hobbes]

Maybe could a moderator please put this thread as sticky? Thank you

[Yavid]

@Hobbes:

Maybe could a moderator please put this thread as sticky? Thank you

Hope i did it right

[Hobbes]

@Yavid:

@Hobbes:

Maybe could a moderator please put this thread as sticky? Thank you

Hope i did it right

I’ll report the one you just wrote if no one notices. ;)

[Imperious Leader]

ok done. But know we got two threads like this…

[Yavid]

this one is in player help the other one is in the wrong place.