ADMINISTRIVIA: 9 - Acronyms

This is the Warhammer 40K Mailing List ADMINISTRIVIA, part 10 of 11.

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It was last updated 08/26/2004 10:30AM CDT by Edwin Voskamp

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ACRONYMS

Here are some list-specific acronyms:

40K

Warhammer 40,000

AMT

Advanced Marstall Theory

AoD

Angels of Death

AUC

Auction. Usually of old stuff.

BFG

Big F***ing Game (this mailing at least ought to be PG-13) also Battlefleet Gothic

BFTBG

Blood for The Blood God

BG

Battlefleet Gothic

COS

Cult Of Steel, followers of the almighty armored vehicles

LatD

Lost and the dammed

IG

Imperial Guard

NC

Necromunda

NEC

Necromunda

rgmw

rec.games.miniatures.warhammer. A Usenet newsgroup that discusses Warhammer 40K, etcetera, with an large amount of flaming and irrelevant posts.

RoC

Realms of Chaos. There are two books StD and LatD. StD concerns mainly Khorne and Slaneesh, LatD Nurgle and Tzeentch.

SM

Space Marines

StD

Slaves to Darkness

SW

Space Wolves

WH40K

Warhammer 40,000

WYSIWYG

What you see is what you get - in 40K terms, a model is what it appears to be, and any items the troop or character has are on the model, and anything that is on the model, the troop or character is equipped with.

AUC

Auction

AFAIK

As far as I know (*NOT*: All fear the almighty, invincible Khorne)

BTW

By the way (*NOT*: Biomorph : Tyranid Warrior)

FWIW

For what it's worth

FS

For Sale

FT

For Trade

FYA

For your amusment

FYI

For your information

IIRC

If I recall correctly (*NOT*: In the infinite realms of chaos)

IMO

In my opinion (*NOT*: I'm an ork)

IMHO

In my humble opinion (*NOT*: I'm a hairy ork)

IMNSHO

In my not so humble opinion

IOW

In other words

OTOH

On the other hand

TIA

Thanks in advance

WTB

Want To Buy

WTS

Want To Sell

WTT

Want To Trade

YMMV

Your mileage my vary

List created originally by Aaron Tunney. He felt that a big 'thank you' must go to the members of the Warhammer 40,000 mailing list (especially Paladin and Howard Liu for their alternative definitions) for this wacky list of acronyms as used on various GW mailing lists and web pages.