Abbreviations

Grepolis Jargon

If you are new to the game of Grepolis, then you may come across a few terms which don't seem to make any sense. Well hopefully this short guide should help you out. Whilst there is no shame in not knowing the meaning of jargon, and we've all been there, this list can let you avoid those sometimes awkward situations where you have no idea what is happening.

Game mechanics

• 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.
• suicide - Kill your own troops in order to free population.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• point whore - A player who focuses on building up cities and gaining points rather then building troops.

Units

• LS/Lights - Light ships.
• fires - Fire ships.
• brims/Birs - Biremes.
• sword(s) - Swordsmen.
• hop(s) - Hoplites.
• CS/C-ship - Colony ship.
• Cats - Catapults.

Alliances

• 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.
• spy - A player who joins an enemy alliance to secretly gather intelligence.
• MM/mass mail - A mail sent to multiple players.
• leaders - The founders and leaders of an alliance.
• MRA - Mass Recruiting Alliance, an alliance that invites lots of players irrespective of their experience or points.
• Ceasefire - When two alliances agree to stop a war for a time.

Battling

• 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.
• timed attack - Multiple attacks that arrive in close proximity of one another.
• 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.
• 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.

Other

• TW - Tribal Wars. (Germans use in reference to The West.)
• West - The West.
• Wiki - The Grepolis Wikipedia (where you are now).
• pure - A player who only builds military buildings and troops.
• 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).

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