"So he revealed a TO HI from HD in ARO and now AP/EXP ML shots are flying around, what am I supposed to do and more importantly, what the hell is he talking about!?" If you're new to Infinity, you might have already noticed we use a lot of acronyms to save time. This list written to facilitate the introduction, so you may soon sling TLAs with the best of them. (To experienced players: Yes, the descriptions are superficial and incomplete. They're supposed to be. This is an intro glossary, not a wiki) 360V = 360º Visor AC = [Portable] Autocannon (anti-armor weapon) AD = Airborne Deployment AD1 = Airborne Deployment: Parachutist (choose a table edge quarter before the battle) AD2 = Airborne Deployment: Airborne Infiltration (choose the table edge quarter immediately before landing) AD4 = Airborne Deployment: Combat Jump (place a circular template and land in that area) ADHL = Adhesive Launcher AHD, assHD = Assault Hacking Device AP = Assault Pistol / Armor-Piercing [ammo] / Anti-Personnel [mines] ARO = Automatic Reaction Order (pretty much everything you do in the reactive turn) ASA = Acontecimento Shock Army (a PanOceanian sectorial army) ASS = Assault Sub-Section of the ALEPH forces (a.k.a. Steel Phalanx sectorial) Asshacker = hacker with Assault Hacking Device Asspistol = Assault Pistol B = Burst B2B = Base-to-base contact Bio#, BioV# = Biometric Visor Level # BJC = Bakunin Jurisdictional Command (Nomad sectorial) BS = Boarding Shotgun / Ballistic Skill BSG = Boarding Shotgun BTB -> B2B C1 = Infinity CodeOne, a simplified version of the N4 ruleset CA = Combined Army CB = Corvus Belli CC = Close Combat (statistic ("CC roll") or situation ("we're in CC")) CCW = Close Combat Weapon CG = Celestial Guard (a Yu Jing unit) CH = Camouflage and Hiding (the whole skill tree) CHA = Caledonian Highlander Army (an Ariadnan sectorial army) Chain smoker = cheap warband with chain rifle and smoke grenades Cheerleader = model whose main purpose is to provide a regular order to others; also: orderbot, order-monkey CJC = Corregidor Jurisdictional Command (Nomad sectorial) CP, C: P = Campaign: Paradiso (the third Infinity book) CRAP = Chain Rifle, Assault Pistol (a S.A.S. unit loadout) DBS = Druze Bayram Security (a NA2 sectorial) DEP = Descanse en Paz ("Rest in Peace" - a one-shot anti-armor launcher; now depreciated) DTW = Direct Template Weapon (anything that uses a template and auto-hits; mostly chain-somethings and flamers) EI = Evolved Intelligence (the entity that runs the CA) E/M = Electromagnetic [ammo] EVO = EVO Repeater GdA = Guarda de Asalto (a PanOceanian unit) GHRL = Guided Heavy Rocket Launcher (incendiary weapon) (N2 name) GML = Guided Missile Launcher (anti-armor weapon) (N2 name) GMSR = Guided Multi Sniper Rifle (N2 name) F2F = Face-to-Face roll FB = Feuerbach (anti-armor weapon) FD# = Forward Deployment Level # FO = Forward Observer FRRM -> MRRF FTF = Face-to-Face roll HB = Hassassin Bahram (Haqqislam sectorial) HD = Hacking Device / Hidden Deployment (when a unit starts hidden with not even a marker, only a position on the map noted down) HD+ = Hacking Device Plus HFT = Heavy Flamethrower HGL = Heavy Grenade Launcher HI = Heavy Infantry (i.e. powered armor) HMC = Hyper-Rapid Magnetic Cannon, =HRMC HMG = Heavy Machine Gun Holo1 = Holoprojector Level 1 (appear as another unit) Holo2 = Holoprojector Level 2 (fake holoechoes) HRL = Heavy Rocket Launcher (incendiary weapon) HRMC = Hyper-Rapid Magnetic Cannon, =HMC HS = Human Sphere (the second Infinity book) HSN3 = Human Sphere, Infinity third edition (2nd release of Human Sphere) HVT = High Value Target (civilian in ITS scenarios) IA = Invincible Army (Yu Jing sectorial army) ICS = Infinity Campaign System IMP = Impersonation or Impersonation Marker ISS = IS = Imperial Service (sometimes unofficially called the Imperial Secret Service; a Yu Jing sectorial army) ITS = Infinity Tournament System JSA = Japanese Sectorial Army KHD = Killer Hacking Device KSCD = Kuang Shi Control Device (often mentioned because this loadout also has a Smoke LGL) KTS = Kaplan Tactical Services (a mercenary unit/organization) LFT = Light Flamethrower LGL = Light Grenade Launcher LI = Light Infantry LoF = Line of Fire LoL = Loss of Lieutenant LRL = Light Rocket Launcher (incendiary weapon) LS, LSG = Light Shotgun LSGL = Light Smoke Grenade Launcher LT = Lieutenant (an army commander) LVZ = Low Visibility Zone (-3 modifier) MA# = Martial Arts level # MAF = Morat Aggression Force (a Combined Army sectorial) MAS = Micro Art Studio (company that makes "official" Infinity terrain) MI = Medium Infantry Mk12 = Mk12 (A battle rifle. Yes, it's its full name) ML = Missile Launcher (anti-armor weapon) MMR = Marksman Rifle MO = Military Orders (a PanOceanian sectorial army) MR = Multi Rifle MRRF = Merovingian Rapid Response Force (an Ariadnan sectorial army, a.k.a. FRRM from the French variant) MSR = Multi Sniper Rifle (multiple ammunition types, not multiple snipers ;) ) MSV# = Multi-Spectral Visor level # Murderbot = Total Reaction remote MX#, MM#, MML# = Marksmanship level # N2 = Infinity second edition N3 = Infinity edition (current) N4 = Infinity fourth edition (current) NA2 = Non-Aligned Armies ("faction" of standalone mercenary sectorials) NAA -> NA2 NBW = Natural Born Warrior NCA = Neoterran Capitalline Army (PanO sectorial) NFB = Negative Feedback (cannot have >1 NFB skills active at the same time) NWI = Valor: No Wound Incapacitation (unit can be fully active when "unconscious") ODD = Optical Disruption Device (no full camouflage, but -6 to hit) ODF = Optical Disruption Field (Pi-Well has it, gives ODD to all models within a circular template centered on user) OSS = Operations Subsection of the ALEPH forces (vanilla Vedic units) PC = Plasma Carbine PF = Panzerfaust (two-shot anti-armor launcher) PSR = Plasma Sniper Rifle PVZ = Poor Visibility Zone (-6 modifier) QK = Qapu Khalqi (a Haqqislamite sectorial Army) Rambo/ramboing = spending most/all orders in a turn on one strong model REM = Remote (automatic or remote-controlled drones) RF = Red Fury (weapon) RTF = Ramah Task Force (Haqqislamite sectorial army) S = Silhouette SEF = Shasvastii Expeditionary Force (CA sectorial) SF = Suppressive Fire SHRL = Smart Heavy Rocket Launcher (incendiary weapon) SK = Skirmisher (unit class; infiltrators) SMG = Submachine Gun SML = Smart Missile Launcher (anti-armor weapon) SMR = Shock Marksman Rifle SMSR = Smart Multi Sniper Rifle SS1/2 = Sixth Sense level 1 / 2 SWC = Support Weapons Cost (you get one for each full 50 points of the list format) TAG = Tactical Armored Gear (the big robots) TAK = Tartary Army Corps (Ariadnan sectorial army) TO = Thermoptic [Camouflage] / Tournament Organizer TR = Total Reaction USARF = USAriadna Ranger Force (Ariadnan sectorial army) Vanilla = non-sectorial list VIRD = Varuna Immediate Reaction Division (PanO sectorial army) WB = Warband (class of expendable impetuous troops), White Banner (Yu Jing sectorial army) WCD = War Contract Department (the old Exrah part of the Combined Army) WYSIWYG = "What you see is what you get", e.g. units and profiles are properly shown on the miniatures YAMS = Yet Another Mission System (a card-based objective system by IJW) YJ = Yu Jing ZVZ = Zero Visibility Zone (no LoF at all) Some additional abbreviations are covered by the ammunition chart. Some more common ones: DA = Double Action (2 ARM rolls on each hit suffered) E/M = Electromagnetic (does not wound but isolates; immobilizes mechanical units) EXP = Explosive (3 ARM rolls on each hit suffered) K1 = ? (DMG 12, target armor = 0 for this roll) Mono = Monofilament (roll against DMG 12, failed roll destroys model outright and removes from the table) N = Normal (no special effects) T2 = ? (Teseum round; each failed ARM roll causes 2 wounds) Painting/modeling related: GS = "green stuff" (a two-part modeling putty) NMM = Non-Metallic Metal (painting a metallic effect without actual metallic pigment) OSL = Object-Source Lighting (painting light reflected from an object onto a miniature) PVA = Polyvinyl Acetate [glue] (a.k.a. white glue, carpenter's glue) RMS = Reaper Master Series (a line of paints) S75 = Scale 75 (a line of paints) VGC = Vallejo Game Color (a line of paints) VMC = Vallejo Model Color (a line of paints)
TOFOOS - Thermo Optical Forward Observer Order Sergeant Doom Link - 5 man HI link with Joan, usually Joan + 3 Hospitaller Knights (Doctor, HMG, Boarding Shotgun), with an accosional presence of AHD hacker de Fersen.
I've seen MBT for Main Battle TAG a lot, referring to TAGs that aren't super (Avatar, Cutter, Marut, etc.) or light (under 8 ARM, Spitfire or non-MULTI HMG). Basically the "standard" TAG that many factions have a similar option to.
Pain Train: a 5 man fireteam devoted to inflict pain on the enemy, usually consisting on HI. Ironically, it starter as a reference to a 5 Mobile Brigada fireteam, at least on the Spanish Forum...
Probably wouldn't hurt to add "WYSIWYG" to the list for "What You See Is What You Get" when referring to the equipment a model has.
TMM = True Metallic Metal (painting a metallic effect with actual metallic pigment applied in zones like NMM, ie, not just wash + drybrush) CA [glue] = cyanoacrylate (superglue) Extra Opaques = some VMC sold with VGC label (so think the other way around, if you need EO for VGC, check VMC range) VMA = Vallejo Model Air (a line of paints, militar colors mostly, can be used with furrybrush too) VGA = Vallejo Game Air (a line of paints, same consistency than VMA, but bright, fantasy, colors) P3 = Privateer Press' Formula P3 (a line of paints, similar to 80s GW) Coat, CD = Coat D'Arms (a line of paints, most of them the 80s GW with new names) Kneadatite = the real brand of GS ProCreate = (you, dirty minds...) another two part epoxy putty, grey color
MLG= my latest grievance. Used almost exclusively, and frequently, by Pan-O players. And anyone discussing scale or tactical debris. Order Monkey = synonym for cheerleader
FFS, I've played Yu Jing for years but even the most frustrated of us didn't feel a need to invent a whole term for their sole use. :facepalm:
Just curious, what does SKU mean? I’ve seen it thrown around a lot since the Daedalus Falls announcement.
stock keeping unit A stock keeping unit (SKU) is a product and service identification code for a store or product, often displayed as a machine-readable bar code that helps track the item for inventory.
Fire Team Option It doesn't do anything by itself, but Fireteam creation rules often reference it (For example, only the Jazz FTO profile is a Wildcard in Corregidor, the Jazz+Billie option can't join Fireteams).
