The Warbook Acronyms & Dictionary
(in alphabetical order)

Acc (Account) - A user's account.

BF (Bottom Feeding) - The act of a larger kingdom attacking a much smaller kingdom (generally less than half the attacker's size) for land and/or money.

CA (Chain Attack) - 3 or more hits from a single kingdom (definition varies by alliance).

Ceasefire - An agreement to temporarily halt attacks between two more or more kingdoms and/or alliances.

Channels - In FA, one will talk about the 'proper' channels. This is the process of talking to the designated people of an alliance in regards to relations.

IGN (In Game Name) - A player's hero/kingdom name.

FA (Foreign Affairs; also, Full Alert) - One of several meanings. Foreign Affairs is the communication between two or more alliances. Full Alert is the highest alert status, at which a kingdom cannot be attacked by land.

Farm - The act of chain attacking a country for land, money, or experience repeatedly over time.

FB (Fireball or Facebook) - A dual meaning for two words. A fireball is an offensive spell that destroys a target's military units.

GT (Gamerstown) - A forum website that hosts alliances. Mainly used for Earth 2025, another texted based game.

K (a unit of measurement) - A 'K' is equal to 1,000. -- [ex. 20K = 20,000].

LAP (Limited-aggression Pact) - A set limit to the number of exchangeable hits between two or more alliances.

M / mil (a unit of measurement) - A 'M' is equal to 1,000,000. -- [ex. 30M = 30,000,000].

MPP (Mutual Protection Pact) - During peacetime this resembles a NAP but in times of war a MPP means that two alliances are to be considered as one. War on one is war with both.

Multi (Multiple) - A collection of kingdoms under the control of a single player.

NAP (Non-aggression Pact) - A no hit pact between two or more alliances.

Retal (Retaliation) - A hit in response to an initial hit.

RL (Real Life) - A relative term used by players to describe the world 'outside' Warbook, though some may argue that is not 'real'.

ROTI (Rise of the Infernals) - The short name given to the Warbook sequel.

Scripting - Running a program to automatically perform maintenance actions, tap one of one's own kingdoms or an allied kingdom, or attack an enemy kingdom, at preset intervals.

TJ (TJ Murphy) - The creator of Warbook.

WB (Warbook) - A game we love and hate.

WBC (Warbook Classic) - The short name given to the ROTI prequel.

WSOD / Whiteout (White Screen of Death) - A term that describes the time in which the Warbook server is down.