wedsaz
Clubman
posted 03-23-01 04:42 PM
ET (US)
3 / 19
CA = Chariot Archer
Cav = Cavalry (though some call them calvary?!)
HCav = Heavy Cavalry
Cat = Catapult
HCat = Heavy Catapult
HC could also be a keyboard shortcut, H being 'select primary town center' and C being 'train villager'. So I'd need to know the context to be sure.
Cataphracts are so rarely mentioned, there doesn't seem to be a standard abbreviation for them. I often call them Ctfs. (from the late roman 'catafractarii')
straggler = solitary tree, not in a forest. Most often mentioned near the beginning of the game, as granary-first strats can't afford a wood pit until they chop a few of those 'stragglers'.
sf = shorefishing, yes
peter
HG Alumnus
posted 03-23-01 05:08 PM
ET (US)
5 / 19
huhu, I'll include those - that's to say them that I didn't already have.
Delirious Lab
Clubman
(id: Benoit)
posted 03-24-01 00:23 AM
ET (US)
7 / 19
On the Zone I see some people specify "no painting" in their game settings. What does this mean?
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 03-24-01 01:52 AM
ET (US)
8 / 19
Benoit:
That was done to me once.
It's when someone places building footprints on your land, stopping your woodies form getting to the forest for example. Extremely annoying, since villies have to target the buildings individually, so the 'attacker' can place buildings faster than you can take them down. A half-hour later, his tool-age army arrives in your stone-age town, and you die because your villies can't run (again because of the @#$%ing ghost buildings).
Hint - this is not a good way to make friends.
butch26
Clubman
posted 03-24-01 02:04 AM
ET (US)
9 / 19
but doesn't "non reveal" prevent this? at least in the stone age.
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 03-24-01 03:49 AM
ET (US)
10 / 19
butch26:
Yep, which is probably why noreveal is so popular in competitive games. Generally the lamers who do this aren't very good at actually playing, so they don't get a good look at your base until after they abdicate.
peter
HG Alumnus
posted 03-25-01 05:15 PM
ET (US)
19 / 19
Uh yea, nice list but of course it isn't very specific to the subject here.