Glossary

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A

• AAA - Amarriner
• A-Air - Anti-Air
• Active Player
• AET - Auto End Turn
• Art - Artillery

B

• Black Tiles - 0 Movement Power Tiles or Teleport Tiles because they provide free movement.
• Blandie - COs with no Day-To-Day ability. Ex. Andy
• Blocking - restricting your opponent's options by using your own unit as an obstruction. Ex. Blocking a base to prevent production
• Broken - Too strong for standard play between two or more similar skill players
• Broken 5 - Kanbei, Sensei, Grit, Colin, and Hachi
• BM - Blue Moon

C

• COP - CO Power

D

• Day-to-Day - The abilities of a CO when not under the effect of CO Powers
• D2D - See Day-to-Day

F

• FoW - Fog of War
• Flood - producing nothing but one type of unit
• FTA - First Turn Advantage, the advantage given to player 1 by being first to play. Ex. Being able to produce the first tank or reaching a certain amount of income first.
• FTA Counter - The advantage given to player 2 to balance out FTA, typically an extra pre-owned city or infantry

G

• Ghost Unit - unit from a non-participating country that disappears upon the start of a game. Typically used to stop production from a given facility.

I

• Inf - Infantry
• Infantry Hop - the use of infantry and sometimes APC/T-copter increase your capture phase efficiency Ex. moving infantry #1 that has already captured last turn to a further neutral city and having infantry #2 who is next in line capture the city infantry #1 was on.

J

• Joke Map - map designed for non-competitive reasons

L

• Leapfrogging - using an APC or Transport Helicopter to effectively transport 2 infantry at the same time.

M

• Meatshield - A unit placed at a particular position to protect your more important units Ex. Infantry protecting Artillery
• Mech Flood - When a player produces a disproportionate amount of mechs turn after turn

N

• Neo - Neotank

O

• OHKO - One-Hit KO, killing a unit in one hit
• OS - Orange Star

P

• Playtest - Playing a game on a map to check for balance

S

• STA - Second Turn Advantage, advantage for moving second on a map
• Self-Voter - map maker votes on their own maps
• SCOP - Super CO Power

T

• Terrain Variety - enough terrain to provide interesting matches.

U

V

W

X

Y

Z