Most articles in this site use common terms and abbreviations that are used in the game. If you’re a new player you may get lost through all these terms, so here’s a glossary to help you out!
Game Tactics
- Flush: A rush in the Feudal Age
- Krush: Knight rush
- Drush: Dark Age rush with militia
- Mush: Monk rush
- Smush: Saracen monk rush
- Trush: Tower rush, generally pulled off in the Feudal Age
- Grush: Galley rush
- FI: Fast Imperial. Used by Byzantines and Turks to have gunpowder units at 22-23 minutes
- FC: Fast Castle
- Castle Drop: Dropping a castle right next to the enemy, popular on arena
- Fwd: Building a forward base to attack
- KLEW: Kidd’s Lightning Eagle Warrior Rush. Have eagles by 14 minutes to kill your enemy
- Douche: Town Center rush: deleting your town center in the dark age and rebuild it next to your enemy’s
- Sling: One player tributes resources to another to kill the enemies faster with more and stronger units
- Booming: Invest all your economy in more economy till you can go to the imperial age. Generally up to 110-140 villagers
- Fishboom: Similar to booming but adding fishing boats for an extra boost
- Sneak: Sneaking in some villagers on closed maps to attack the enemy from behind while he thinks he’s protected by natural borders
- Clump: DM tactic that involves building your initial buildings so that your villagers are protected from the first hostile raids
Units & Buildings
- Trash Units: Units that cost no gold
- Arb: Arbalest
- Axe: Throwing Axeman
- BBC: Bombard Cannon
- BBT: Bombard Tower
- CA: Cavalry Archer
- Cata: Cataphract
- Cav: Cavalier
- Champs: Champions
- Chuck: Chu-Ko-Nu
- Conq: Conquistador
- E: Elite version of a unit (Econq)
- Ele: War Elephant
- EW: Eagle Warrior
- Halb: Halberdier
- Husk/Husky: Huskarl
- HC: Hand Cannoneer
- HCA: Heavy Cavalry Archer
- Jag: Jaguar Warrior
- Jan/Janny: Janissary
- Kits/Knts/Kts: Knights
- Lbow: Longbowman
- LC/LCav: Light Cavalry
- M/Mkt: Market
- MAA/M@A: Man at Arms
- Mam: Mameluke
- Mang: Mangonel
- Mangu: Mangudai
- Onnies: A unit from the Onager line, usually Onagers or Siege Onagers
- Pala: Paladin
- Pike: Pikeman
- Plums: Plumed Archers
- Pony: Scout Cavalry
- Range: Archery Range
- Rax: Barracks
- Sam: Samurai
- Sc: Scout Cavalry
- Skirm: Skirmisher
- SO: Siege Onager
- TC: Town Center
- TK: Teutonic Knight
- Treb: Trebuchet
- UU: Unique Unit
- Woad: Woad Raider
- WW: War Wagon
- Xbow: Crossbow
- Zerk: Berserk
Maps
- LN: Land Nomad
- FR: Full Random
- UR: Ultra Random
- BR: Blind Random
- Michi: Map that separates teams by a thick forest.
- LN Nothing: Land Nomad with only forests
- GA: Green Arabia
- DA: Double Arabia
- TI: Team Islands
- BF: Black Forest
- RF: Regicide Fortress
- Migra: Migration
- Medi: Mediterranean
Game Types
- RM: Random Map
- DM: Death Match
- CS: Custom Scenario
- Koth: King of the Hill
- Regi: Regicide
- FFA: Free For All
Pregame Chat
- fmt: Friends May Team
- coop: When two players pick the same color and play as one civilisation
- tg: Team Game
- italics: Problem in GameRanger where the player who is “italics” needs to rejoin or either forward his ports
- ping 30: A connectivity problem between players
Ingame Chat
- pocket: The central player(s) in 3v3 and 4v4 teamgames
- w: Water (used to flare water to your teammates)
- d: Dock (used to flare your docks to your teammates)
- x (something): Flare (something)
- housed: Not having enough houses to continue unit production
- popped: Reached the population limit
- g: Gold (used to flare enemy gold to your teammates) or to ask for gold
- r/rel: Relic (used to flare your relics to your teammates)
- lc: Lumbercamp (used to flare enemy lumber to your teammates)
- del: Delete
- LOS: Line of Sight
- HP: Hit Points
- FU: Fully Upgraded or Fuck You, depending on the context
- gg: Good Game
- vgg: Very Good Game
- hf: Have Fun
- gl: Good Luck
- pw: Play Well
- wp: Well Played
- re: Rematch
- gb: Go Back (also used to say you should pull back on the battle field)
- eg: No meaning, was originally used as a pun on “gg”. Some use it as “easy” or “excellent” game
- op: Overpowered
Trivia
- Hunwhore: Someone who can only play 1v1 Huns on Arabia
- Hunkid: Obnoxious and annoying kid that can only play 1v1 Huns on Arabia and thinks he’s a pro player because of that
- Aztecwhore: Worse than a Hunwhore
- tuG_: Cheat(er) (named after Ertug, notable cheater)
- Bär: German way to refer to your boars.
- Smurf: A player pretending to be someone else.
Community & Games
- aoc: Age of Empires II, The Conquerors Expansion
- aok: Age of Empires II, The Age of Kings
- aoe: Age of Empires
- ror: Age of Empires I, The Rise of Rome Expansion
- aom: Age of Mythology
- tt: Age of Mythology, The Titans Expansion
- aoe3: Age of Empires III
- tad: Age of Empires III, The Asian Dynasties Expansion
- twc: Age of Empires III, The War Chiefs Expansion
- aoeo: Age of Empires Online
- zone: MSN Gaming Zone, the former official matchmaking service for Age of Empires
- GR: GameRanger
- rts: Real Time Strategy
Civilisations
In team games it’s a good habit to say which civ you have. It’s essential to good teamwork. And the first time I heard “tines” I had to think hard to figure what civ my ally actually had.
- Meso: Meso-American civs, aka Mayans and Aztecs
- Aztecs: Az/Azt/Tex/Tec
- Britons: Brits/Bri
- Byzantines: Byz/Tines
- Celts: Cel
- Chinese: Chinks/Chi
- Franks: Fra
- Goths: Got
- Huns: Hun
- Japanese: Jap/Japs
- Koreans: Kor
- Mayans: May/Maya
- Mongols: Mon/Gols
- Persians: Per/Pers
- Saracens: Sar/Sara
- Spanish: Sp/Spa/Span
- Teutons: Tuts/Teut
- Turks: Tur
- Vikings: Vik
