Keywords: abbreviations, All, Open General, Open Suite,
Sometimes the space on the Control Panels are too short, sometimes designers are simply too lazy to write a few more characters, it doesn’t matter, there are heavily used abbreviations in the game and the editor. If you want to be a designer, you should learn them. Here you are the list of the most frequently used abbreviations:
AA = Air Attack [Value]
AAR = After Action Report
AD = Air Defense [Gun / Class / Value]
AF = Airfield (rarely: Airport)
AI = Artificial Intelligence, the game engine playing against you (unless you play against a human opponent)
ASW = Anti-Submarine Warfare
AT = Anti-Tank [Gun / Class]
ATP = Air Transport
ATY = Artillery
BB = Battleship
BC = Battle Cruiser
BS = Battleship
BV = Brilliant Victory
CBF = Counter Battery Fire
CC = Campaign Challenge
CCC = Collaborative Campaign Challenge
CD = Close Defense [Value]
CR = Cruiser
CV = Carrier
DD = Destroyer
DH = Deployment Hex
DV = Decisive Victory (used in some Efiles, it’s the same as BV)
Efile = Equipment File
Exp = Experience [Point / Value]
F/F = Fronts and Factions
Fort = Fortification
FoW = Fog of War
FTR = Fighter [Plane]
GD = Ground Defense [Value]
GT = Game Turn
GTP = Ground Transport
HA = Hard Attack [Value]
Helo = Helicopter
HQ = Headquarters
HTP = Helo Transport
INF = Infantry
Init = Initiative
JP = JP’s Panzers Wargame & History Forums
LB = Level Bomber
LC = Light Cruiser
LoF = Line of Fire
LoS = Line of Sight
LTBV = Last Turn Brilliant Victory
MG = Machine Gun
Moto = Motorcycle
MP = Movement Point(s)
MSU = Must Survive Unit
MV = Marginal Victory (used in some Efiles, it’s the same as TV)
NA = Naval Attack [Value]
NTP = Naval Transport
OG = Open General
OG Forums = Open General Forums – Discussion Threads of the Game
OH = Object Hex
OpenGen = Open General
OS = Overstrength [Point]
Panzercentral = JP’s Panzers Wargame & History Forums
PBEM = Playing by E-mail
PeG = People’s General
PG or PG1 = Panzer General [for DOS]
PG2 = Panzer General II
PP = Prestige Point
Proto = Prototype
Pz = Panzer (German), Tank
RCN = Recon[naissance Class / Unit]
RDM = Range Defense Modifier [Value]
RTP = Rail Transport
RW = Railways
SA = Soft Attack [Value]
SH = Supply Hex
SP = [Current] Strength Point(s)
SPAD = Self-Propelled Air Defense Gun
SPAT = Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Gun
SPAty or SPArty = Self-Propelled Artillery
SUB = Submarine
TB = Tactical Bomber
TK = Tank
TPT = Organic Transport (used in PG2 times, it’s the same as GTP)
TV = Tactical Victory
VH = Victory Hex
V = [Standard] Victory
XP = Experience [Point / Value]
ZoC = Zone of Control