OK folks, I think it is time that we did this. We bandy about terms, and new players (should there ever be any) can get confused. SO I would like to recommend the following:

A Dictionary of Terms used on MWRealms.

I will combine and post them. But I would like to list the term, its definition, and who coined it (if possible).

I'll start it off on my next post.

Agreed. I have a bunch of stuff already done in the MWRealms New Players guide.

I plan on updating it once AoD comes out. If you want you can take anything from that, to save yourself some time.

If not, then I'd love suggestions (I've been trying to get people to give me ideas for months) on what needs to be in it.

Either way, the feedback I've gotten back from new people over the past months since I initially did it, was that the glossery section was one of their favorite parts of the guide.

So I think it's a good idea. I'll help anyway I can.

MWREALMS DICTIONARY, entry #1:

B-N-B: Base and Brake. The tactic of placing low cost units in base contact with high cost opposing units to hold them in place, then moving the low cost units away to expose the opponent to a damaging attack. ORIGIN: ?

BURSC: The inverse of a Scrub (see SCRUB). A person who believes that imposing artificial restrictions on army design is overly limiting and largely unnecessary. ORIGIN: Stevejm / Lt_Murgen

CHARGEMONKEY: a player who utilizes the charge mechanic as his/her primary means of delivering damage, and builds armies to maximize this potential. ORIGIN: ?

CHARGEMONKEYTUDE; The feeling that the charge mechanic is in-line with other mechanics, and does not imbalance the game. Some believe this to be a false feeling. ORIGIN: ?

META-GAME: The underlying rules and statistical background of a game which forms the logic of the gaming system. Often used when discussing generic strategy rather than specific builds. ORIGIN: ?

POG-WARRIOR: a player who utilizes artillery units as his/her primary means of delivering damage, and builds armies to maximize this potential. ORIGIN: ?

RAINBOWWARRIOR: A derogatory term used to identify people who deliberately field units from many different factions in an effort to maximize their army’s effectiveness. ORIGIN: ?

SCRUB: A player who chooses to play with restrictions that are in line with the ‘fluff’ or spirit of the game, even if that means a diminished capacity for winning. Specifically, scrubs tend to do the following: play faction pure, play at least one mech, play no more than one artillery, play no more than 2 different VTOLs, and charge only if at/near salvage. ORIGIN: ?

VTOL-WARRIOR: a player who utilizes VTOLS as his/her primary means of delivering damage, and builds armies to maximize this potential. ORIGIN: ?

Here is posting #2:

Arty Drop- Using a transport in order to move and deploy an artillery unit. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Broken- An opinion that a certain unit or rule is too powerful within the current rules. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Carpetbagger- Someone who travels to all the nearby venues with the express purpose of winning prizes. Vulgar. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Cheese- A term related to an opinion that it is possible to play the game either with units that are broken or to exploit the rule loopholes themselves. Vulgar. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Cherry Picking- The process of manipulating a booster pack in an attempt to find out if it contains a unique. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Fattie or Fatty- An expensive (point wise) mech usually considered to be an Assault Mech. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Fluff- Storyline and universe information that has no relevance to how the game is actually played. Background story. Examples would be why the various factions fight, who makes up the various factions, who they are allied with, who they hate particularly, what the pilot named his particular mech, etc. Pretty much everything written in the dossier files is fluff. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Lego- Legionnaire, a type of mech design. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Meat Shield- Arranging infantry units (often around a mech or artillery piece) with the express purpose to keep opposing units from basing your unit. Often cheap infantry are used for this. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

MiM- Man in the middle, a type of army that utilizes the Point Defense ability from one unit to boost the defenses of other units which are in base contact with it. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Min-maxed- The act of minimizing one stat in order to raise another stat while still keeping the overall point cost on the unit down and inexpensive. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Mr. Suitcase- Someone who carries around their entire collection with them every time they show up to play. Often they are considered to also own every powerful piece. Generally this is only used to describe someone who has many units and brings them even if they do not need them. Vulgar ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Nerf- A rule change or FAQ with the apparent express purpose of changing the current way a unit or rule works. Often used to make the unit or rule less effective. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Nutcracker- A group of units or unit that is used to damage a target that is considered to have a high defense. “That (insert unit) is a tough nut to crack.” ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Pog- An artillery token. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Screen- Nearly the same as a Meat Shield, however it does not denote using only infantry for the shield or screen. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Shoot and Scoot- Firing with a unit then loading them into a transport and moving them. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Swarm- Multiple cheap units used to overwhelm an opponent. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

TAC Drop- Dropping Towed Autocannon (usually the Swordsworn unit) from a transport. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Tankdrop- Loading a tank, often a Schmitt or Marksman into a transport. Often the transport is moved and the tank deployed (one the same turn), giving the tank better firing position and safety of the transport. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Turtle- When you stay in one place and wait for your enemy to come to you. You do not tend to press the engagement unless you are using artillery variant of the turtle. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Vultures- Someone who travels to all the nearby venues with the express purpose of winning prizes. Vulgar. ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Warpog- A army type usually built around multiple Swordsword Arrow IV artillery pieces or other min/maxed artillery pieces. They are almost always mechless. Generally considered to be much more powerful before the artillary errata.
ORIGIN: MRFrenris FAQ

Oh, come on, make sure you give credit where credit is due! Warpog is from Warflail, who, if I recall correctly, is mortified to have his name associated with the cheese. :)

I'm not sure, but I think that Man-in-the-Middle (MiM) originated with JonBoy. I heard him mention it during Origins this year. It was the first I heard of it.

...and I think Highdancer is correct about Warpog. :)

Infiltarte (in-fill-tar-tuh) 1. adj. - descriptor of a person who uses infiltrate excessively. "I played this last weekend and played a guy who was a total infiltarte." 2. verb - the act of infiltrating excessively, found most commonly before the 1st turn immunity ruling went into effect.
uh, from me

Fluffer: A Person who will put his opinion forward that tankdrop is ubercheese in any and all discussions that actualy accept such tactics. This person will not add to the discussion just mention how Mechless is cheesy.

On a practical note...

AP - Armor Piercing Special Equipment

AnP or Anti-P - Anti-Personnel Special Equipment

SU - Single Use (usually in reference to Special Equipment)

SUSE - Single Use Special Equipment

As far as who originated what. I never gave credit to as where the term came from.

I believe Lt. is just saying that he pulled it right out of the players guide I did. He just copied and pasted it, he isn't saying that I came up with it.

I'm all for you copying and pasting it Lt. I plan on doing the same when I find new stuff in your version!

Origin: Me.

I caught a lot of #### about this expression from people who didnt feel charging was a problem. They would say stuff like "stop calling it chargemonkey, it is a perfectly valid tactic and doesnt need a silly name to degrade it". Oddly, almost all of those people were BR (BR Lego), DF (pick your favorite chargemonkey) or SC players (Arnis).

Mine too.

Yeah, Warpog is named after me. I just hope the un-nerfing of arty in AOD is compensated for by new rules/cards/units.






"Arty dancing" or "the arty dance" is an artillery duel between two or more artillery with attached 3-capacity transports. Fire, load/move, his turn, his resolves, he fires again, loads/moves, your turn, you move/unload/fire, etc etc etc. La la la, back and forth to the sound of the music.

Someone should probably point out that calling someone a scrub is highly offensive to some. Likewise, calling someone a cheesehead is offensive.

Needed:

Nimball [definition; origin; point/purpose]

*raises hand* Guilty ;) and I seem to be running out of room... :cheeky:

here's one for ya:

Nimball- The semi-official online RPG-style sport of MWRealms that has no rules and tends to get out of hand. The victor is decided by whoever is the only one to post after a long time. Every game has been won by Timberwolf MK2 (In team games snakemarcato13, lethewaters, and Mechafan have been on the winning team as well)
Origin: ChargerIIC


just had to put that in there... ;)

angus drummund syndrome: the condition where the mad cat's torso and head is looking up towards the sky. Looks as though Angus , a SC pilot, is seeking a vision. Later Mad Cats still suffer this condition.

Tankwarrior : someone who likes to field only tanks and more tanks. Not to be confused with arty warrior.

Infantrywarrior : like the above "-warriors", only the players field lots of infantry units.

ATVwarrrior: lots of ATVs

Arnis: the fabled unique Dasher II from Liao Incursion. The chargemonkey king and infamous for charging into everything.