Jargons

Jargons explaination

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What are "Jargons"?
Jargons are generaly an abrevieated version of a word, or a couple of words, used in order to save time whilst speaking or writing. They can contain the first letter of each word, or they can be composed of a series of letters taken from the word(s).(eg. MoW ⇔ Men of War). If there is a word that you have read on our wiki that you do not understand, please look here.

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A

 * AAA - Anti Aircraft Artilery
 * AP rounds - Armor Piercing rounds
 * A(1 / 2 / 3 / 4) - Its the FoW/MoW series-A1-FoW,A2-MoW,A3-MoW:RT and A4-MoW:SA
 * AP - Anti-Personel (mine, grenade)
 * AT - Anti-Tank (gun, rifle, mine, grenade etc)
 * APC - Armored Personal Carrier
 * APBC rounds - Armor Piercing Ballistic Cap
 * APCR rounds - Armor Piercing Composite Ridge
 * AFV - Armored Fighting Vehicle

B

 * BMG - Browning Machine Gun
 * BTR - Bronetransportyor (Russian) literally meaning "armored transporter"

C
= D - F =

D

 * DCG - Dynamic Campaign Generator

E

 * ETOC - Estimated Time Of Completion

F

 * FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. A page to ask questions to the community about something
 * FlaK - "Flugabwehrkanone" (engl. "Anti-Aircraft-Artellery"; or directly translated: "Air-Defense-Cannon")
 * FoW - Faces of War, outfrount 1.5
 * FOW - Fog Of War, the shroud which covers the parts of the map which you do not occupy, it covers up enemy and civilian soldiers, vehicals and other units. If you move your units into the fog it will disappear and likewise if you move your units out of the area the fog will re-appear.

= G - I =

G
GEM - The name of the engine Men of War and the other Outfront games are based on

H

 * HE rounds - High Explosive rounds
 * HEAT rounds - High Explosive Anti Tank
 * HQ - Headquartier

I
= J - L =

J

 * JgPz or Jgd.Pz - Jagdpanzer, lituraly meaning 'Hunting Tank'

K

 * Königstiger / King tiger - Pz.Kpfw. VI "Tiger II" Ausf. B: German heavy tank; arguably the most formidable tank of the World War 2 era.
 * KwK - Kampfwagenkanone, lituraly meaning 'fighting vehical cannon'. The designation given to cannons which were converted to vehical board useage (eg. KwK 43, formerly Pak 43)

L
= M - O =

M

 * MoW - Men of War
 * Mp - Maschinenpistole (Literally meaning Machine Pistol, bascily sub machine gun)

O

 * OF - Outfront, the name of the game series what eg. Men of War contains to
 * OF1.0 - Outfront 1 (Soldiers: Heroes of WW2)
 * OF1.5 - Outfront 1.5 (Faces of War)
 * OF2.0 - Outfront 2 (Men of War)
 * OF2.5 - Outfront 2.5 (MoW - Red Tide)
 * OQF - Ordinance Quick Firing (the name given to most british tank/anti-tank guns. eg OQF 17pdr)

= P - R =

P

 * PB - Pillbox
 * Pz - "Panzer", the German translation of "tank"
 * Pz.Kpfw. - 'Panzerkampfwagen' lituraly meaning 'armored combat vehical'. Correct description of "Pz" (See line above)
 * Pdr - Pounder, the British measured cannon size in weight instead of the width of the bore. (2.2 pounds to 1kg)
 * Pak - 'Panzerabwehrkanone', translated as 'tank defense cannon' or anti-tank gun. The prefix used infront AT guns usualy mounted on trailers or carriages. (eg. Pak 40)

R

 * Rif. - Reinforcement(s)

= S - U =

S

 * Sd.Kfz - 'Sonderkraftfahrzeug' Liturally meaning Special Purpose Vehical, for example Sd.Kfz. 234 "Puma"
 * SS / Waffen-SS - 'Schutzstaffel': Hitler's personal bodyguard formed in 1925, grew to contain the Gestapo and Totenkopf.
 * SPG - Self Propeled Gun (Stug, ISU-152, Bishop)
 * Stg / StGw - Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle, eg Stg 44)
 * StuG (3 / 4) - 'Sturm-Geschütz': Lituraly meaning 'Storm-Gun' was the name given to a series of assault guns built on the chassis of the panzer IIIs and IVs.

T

 * TOC - Table of Contents

U
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W
WW2 - World War 2

X
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Z
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1337 - "LEET", abbreviation for "ELITE"