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Term
| Meaning
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| AoE, AOE
| Age of Empires
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| ES, Ensemble
| Ensemble Studios (they made the game, not Microsoft)
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| HP
| Hit points (e. g. 120 for a Hoplite)
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| Armor
| Defense against melee damage (see combat equation for more info)
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| Piercing armor
| Defense against missile damage
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| Missile weapons
| Archery range units, towers, Scout ship, War galley, Trireme
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| Siege weapons/ships
| Siege Workshop units, Catapult Trireme, Juggernaught
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| Melee/hand-to-hand units
| Barracks, Academy, Stable units (except War Elephant)
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| Peons, Peasants
| Villagers
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| Jugg
| Juggernaught
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| Cat
| Catapult
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| Dumbo, Phant
| War or food Elephant
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| Hopper
| Academy unit (Hoplite)
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| Compies
| Composite Bowmen
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| Cav, Lone rangers
| Cavalry units
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| Axer
| Axeman
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| 1 o'clock
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| A practical way of telling the direction (invented by pilots). Imagine an analog watch over the map. You can thus easily tell which sector of the map you mean. By giving the distance to the center of the map, you can designate spots on the map easily and fairly accurate.
Tower:
You have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!
Pilot:
Give us another hint, we have digital watches!
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| Stonehenge
| Ruin :)
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| Town Hall
| Town Center (Warcraft players know what a Town Hall is)
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| Yard, Ship yard
| Dock
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| Open?
| Ask this after entering the chat room to see whether you can play the game
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| FFA
| Free for all (everyone vs everyone, no teams allowed with <4 players)
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| DM
| Deathmatch
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| co-op
| cooperative play (vs the computer, good for beginners)
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| brb
| be right back (used in chat or when pausing the game)
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| rtc
| return to chat (e. g. if someone has screwed up the settings or got disconnected)
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| gg
| good game. You say this if you have lost a game and want to be nice ;)
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| glgp
| "Good luck, going private". A way of reminding beginners to switch chat settings to allies (it is even more obsolete in FFA games)
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| tvb
| "Top versus bottom": an easy way to arrange teams in a multiplayer game
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| afk
| "Away from keyboard"
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| lol
| Laughing out loud |
| rotfl
| Rolling on the floor laughing
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| cya
| see you
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| CU L8R
| See you later
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