Abbreviations

Grepolis Jargon

• def - defense/defensive (eg. an archer is a def unit).
• off - offense/offensive (eg. cavalry is an off unit).
• def city - A city with only defensive units.
• off city - A city with only offensive units.
• farm vill - A farming village, may also be called NPC village (Non-player controlled) or barb(arian) village.
• farm - Another player's city that is undefended and being regularly attacked for free resources.
• siege - Damage a city with catapults.
• clear - Kill all troops defending a city.
• clearing wave - An attack designed to clear a city. Also abbreviated to CW.
• fake - An attack consisting of a single unit to scare or deceive an enemy.
• scout/spy - Act of performing espionage of another city.
• spy - A player who joins an enemy alliance to secretly gather intelligence.
• timed attack - Multiple attacks that arrive in close proximity of one another.
• suicide - Kill your own troops in order to free population.
• dodge - Temporarily move units out of a city to evade an incoming attack.
• timed support - Units that arrive during the middle of a timed attack.
• rim - The edge of the world where new players and refugee players are sent.
• rimmed - Sending someone to the rim by conquering their last village.
• PA - Personal alliance, another player you are personally allied to independent of your alliance. Do not confuse with with Premium Account.
• ally - An alliance you mutually co-operate with.
• NAP - Non Aggression Pact, an alliance you mutually agree not to attack.
• enemy - An alliance you are at war with.
• Grepo - Grepolis. Also abbreviated to GP.
• res - Resources.
• PA - Premium Account. Do not confuse with Personal Alliance.
• PP - Premium Player, an alternative to PA to avoid confusion.
• MM/mass mail - A mail sent to multiple players, occasionally abbreviated to MM.
• TW - Tribal Wars. (Germans use in reference to The West.)
• West - The West.
• leaders - The founders and leaders of an alliance.
• CS/C-ship - Colony ship.
• Cats - Catapults
• Pure - A player who only builds military buildings and troops.
• Nuke - An attack consisting of one type of unit (eg. a slinger nuke of 1000 slingers only).
• turtle - A player with several defensive cities on one island and who is thus very difficult to conquer.
• MRA - Mass Recruiting Alliance, an alliance that invites lots of players irrespective of their experience or points.
• sword(s) - Swordsmen.
• hop(s) - Hoplites.
• Wiki - The Grepolis Wikipedia (where you are now).
• Ceasefire - When two alliances agree to stop a war for a time.
• Mod - A moderator of either the external forum or in-game.
• Mod alliance - An alliance with several mods in (mods have no powers in the world they play).
• spell - An act of divine favour, eg. Poseidon's 'Kingly Gift'.
• bolt - Zues' 'Lightning Bolt' favour, also referring to a strategy of having many alliance members 'bolt' an enemy city without sending any real troop attacks.
• BP - Beginners protection, the first few days after joining a world when you cannot be attacked.
• BP - BP can also mean battle points which are gained from killing enemy units.
• BPA - Battle points attack, BP gained from attacking.
• BPD - Battle points defense, BP gained from defending.
• LS/Lights - Light ships.
• Fires - Fire ships.
• Brims/Birs - Biremes.
• Wall spy - To check your Wall before a battle, where the units you have killed are listed, and to check after the battle (if none of your troops survived), to see how many more troops you killed.

Internet Jargon

• k - Thousand. For example 5k is the equivalent of 5,000.
• mill - Million. For example 5mill is the equivalent of 5,000,000.
• IRL - In Real Life.
• PM - Private Message, a one-to-one message sent to a forum account.
• IG - Ingame.
• IGM Ingame Message, a PM sent through Grepolis' messaging system.
• noob - A derogative term for new players.
• multi - A person playing more than one account on the same world. This is against the rules.
• 24/7 - 24 hours, 7 days a week.
• IE - Internet Explorer.
• FF - Mozilla Firefox.
• GC - Google Chrome.
• idk - Do not know.
• idc - Do not care.
• ty - Thankyou.
• np - No problem.
• imo - In my opinion.
• imho - In my humble opinion.
• afaik - As far as I know.
• :) - Happy Face (turn 90 degrees). Other combinations such as :( form sad faces, etc.
• muahaha - Evil laugh.
• lol - Laugh out loud.
• rofl - Rolling on the floor laughing.
• k - Ok, also written as kk.
• nc - No comment.
• kewl - Cool.
• OT - Off-topic.
• ^_^ - Laughing.
• -_- - Not laughing.
• B2T - Back to the topic.
• GFX - Graphics