| 02.30 |
A method of quickly telling your
ally where your starting location on the map. Using clock notation |
| 1 Way |
Map. One way in, one way out. |
| 2 Hall |
On high resources, building 2 town halls straight
away in order to pump peons out twice as fast and gain an advantage. |
| Ally |
The person(s) on your team |
| AV |
Allied Victory. An option in War2 to end the
game when your opponent(s) have left or are dead |
| B2B |
Map. Bridge to Bridge Combat |
| Birds |
Dragons or GryphonRiders |
| BTC |
Back to Chat |
| CTS |
Map. Cross the Streams. |
| D&D |
Death and Decay. Effective Death Knight spell |
| DK |
Death Knight |
| Fatties |
(Fat Boys). Ogres |
| FFA |
Free For All. Game type where there are three
or more players who are not allied, to win you must be the last
one standing. Gives rise to long drawn out defensive games where
expanding is the key. |
| FOC |
Map. Fierce Ocean Combat |
| Footies |
Footman |
| Foundry Hop |
The Practise of building a foundry in a small
piece of water and cancelling the building allowing the peon or
peasant to pop out the other side - effectively "Hopping"
over the water from one side to the other. |
| Friends |
Map. Friends pud. A war2 expansion map where
allies started next to each other and could therefore almost have
shared vision of each others bases. |
| GG |
Good Game. Courteous saying at the end of the
game. |
| GL |
Good Luck. |
| GOW |
Map. Garden of War. |
| GP |
Going Private. Said at the start of a game
meaning chat will only be heard from my allies from now on. |
| Hall |
Town Hall |
| HSC |
Map. High Seas Combat |
| IWL |
International Warcraft2 League |
| Juggs |
Juggernauts/BattleShips |
| Kali |
Chat Program that allowed people to play Warcraft
2 over the internet. Created by Jay Cotton |
| KPUD |
A collection of professionally made custom
war2 maps. |
| Lagger |
Someone whose connection slows the game down
to the annoyance of all players. |
| Lamer |
A player who displays high levels of idiocy
in a game. |
| Lust |
Blood Lust. Powerful ogre spell making them
do 3 times the damage they normally do for a short period of time. |
| MageBomb |
Using a Human mage to blizzard himself and
kill all around him. Many variations |
| Maze. |
Map. No way out of this maze. |
| Newbie |
(Noob) A person who is new at the game. Often
Derogatory describing someone who isnt very good. |
| NWL |
National Warcraft2 League |
| NWTR |
Map. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to hide. |
| Off Tower |
To build guard/cannon towers in or near an
opponents base so the towers form part of your attack rather than
as defense |
| Ogre Rules |
Lame Practise of restricting attacks until
the first ogre is made. |
| Ogre Waltz |
Victory dance whereby in a group of ogres,
each one is set to follow to one in front so when the front ogre
moves, the rest follow in a line. Practised by Burning Blood Clan. |
| OZWL |
Australian Warcraft2 League |
| Peons |
Worker units. Peons or peasants |
| POS |
Map. Plains of Snow |
| PUD |
Three letter file extension of warcraft2 maps.
Any map made for Warcraft2. |
| Quit to Chat |
Annoying practise of the hoster quitting the
game and returning to the Warcraft2 chat area thereby denying everyone
the chance to see the stats screen |
| Rats |
Knights |
| Raxing |
The Practise of building a barracks between
a players hall and gold mine denying his peons/peasants the chance
to mind gold and hampering his progress. Also done with a smith
and mill (smithing and milling) |
| Rush |
Building a lot of grunts or footmen early in
the game and attacking. |
| Serial |
Kali Serial number. The unique id you were
given when you registered Kali. The lower the number, the more kudos
that came with it. |
| Smurf |
To play under a name different to the one you
are known as. |
| Stats |
The stats screen at the end of a game showing
number of kills, and resources mined. |
| Taco Bell |
A Goblin Alchemist |
| THF |
Town Hall First. Standard unspoken rule that
the first building you had to build was a town hall. No longer needed
in War2BNE as the town hall was the only building you could build
first |
| Turtle |
A player who does not attack or expand but
simply builds a huge defense in some lame hope this will win him
the game. It never does. |
| TVB |
Top versus bottom. |
| Wall-In |
To make your base impregnable by building barracks
and farms to fill any gaps into your base. Usually accompanied by
a cannon/guard tower to kill any opposing units who attack the wall-in |
| War2 |
Warcraft 2 |
| War2Kali |
A software patch applied to warcraft2 in order
to play over kali in the early days which stopped people guessing
your location by the colour you were given. |
| Woot |
Meaningless dumb-ass word that the lesser intelligent
deem appropriate to utter on just about any given occasion |
