DrakaZ
23-07-2010, 10:58 AM
Blizzard put online kind of glossary for newcomers on StarCraft II. As you may know, StarCraft is a 12-years old game and people have developed their own language so you may stumble on unfamiliar acronyms or phrases you read through announcements, blogs, forum posts and various comments you can find on the web.
It can be very demoralizing for a newcomer to read words/abbreviations that he cannot understand and that is why Blizzard prepared a series of blogs to help the newcomers to become fluent in the language of the StarCraft community.
In this first instalment, Blizzard wanted to cover the terminology for common units and structures.
Units and Structures
General
Eyes - Refers to any unit that has the ability to detect invisible units (e.g. Overseer, Observer, Raven)
P - Protoss
T - Terran
Tower - Refers to the Xel’Naga Watch Towers located around a map that can be controlled to gain vision of a designated area
Worker - Refers to any unit that can gather resources or build structures (e.g. Probe, SCV, Drone)
Z - Zerg
Protoss
DA - Dark Archon
DT - Dark Templar
Gate - Gateway
Goon - Dragoon
High Temp/HT/Temp - High Templar
Obz/Obs – Observer (this can refer to either the unit or a player observing a match)
VR - Void Ray
Zlot/Lot/Zs - Zealot
Terran
Bat - Firebat
BC - Battlecruiser
Bio - Refers to units that are mostly biological and typically built in a Barracks (e.g. Marines, Marauders), but can also refer to other biological units including Zealots and Templars
Bioball/Mball - A group of tightly-packed biological units including Marines and Marauders
CC - Command Center
Ebay - Engineering Bay
Fort/PF - Planetary Fortress
Gols - Goliaths
M&M/MM - Marines and Marauders, Marines and Medivacs
M3/MMM - Marines, Marauders, and Medivacs
Mech - Refers to units typically built in a Factory (e.g. Hellions, Siege Tanks, Thors), but can also refer to Vikings
Nuker - Ghost
Orb - Orbital Command
Rax - Barracks
Rines - Marines
Sci/SV - Science Vessel
Valks - Valkyries
Vikes - Vikings
Zerg
Bling - Baneling
Bsball - A group of tightly-packed Banelings and Speedlings
Hatch - Hatchery
Hydra - Hydralisk
Mines - Burrowed Banelings
Muta - Mutalisk
OL/OV/Ovie - Overlord
Pool - Spawning Pool
Speedling - A Zergling with movement speed upgrade
Ultra - Ultralisk
Zling/Ling - Zergling
Stay tuned as Blizzard will release another series next week regarding tactics and greetings.
Source: Battle.net (http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/47685)
It can be very demoralizing for a newcomer to read words/abbreviations that he cannot understand and that is why Blizzard prepared a series of blogs to help the newcomers to become fluent in the language of the StarCraft community.
In this first instalment, Blizzard wanted to cover the terminology for common units and structures.
Units and Structures
General
Eyes - Refers to any unit that has the ability to detect invisible units (e.g. Overseer, Observer, Raven)
P - Protoss
T - Terran
Tower - Refers to the Xel’Naga Watch Towers located around a map that can be controlled to gain vision of a designated area
Worker - Refers to any unit that can gather resources or build structures (e.g. Probe, SCV, Drone)
Z - Zerg
Protoss
DA - Dark Archon
DT - Dark Templar
Gate - Gateway
Goon - Dragoon
High Temp/HT/Temp - High Templar
Obz/Obs – Observer (this can refer to either the unit or a player observing a match)
VR - Void Ray
Zlot/Lot/Zs - Zealot
Terran
Bat - Firebat
BC - Battlecruiser
Bio - Refers to units that are mostly biological and typically built in a Barracks (e.g. Marines, Marauders), but can also refer to other biological units including Zealots and Templars
Bioball/Mball - A group of tightly-packed biological units including Marines and Marauders
CC - Command Center
Ebay - Engineering Bay
Fort/PF - Planetary Fortress
Gols - Goliaths
M&M/MM - Marines and Marauders, Marines and Medivacs
M3/MMM - Marines, Marauders, and Medivacs
Mech - Refers to units typically built in a Factory (e.g. Hellions, Siege Tanks, Thors), but can also refer to Vikings
Nuker - Ghost
Orb - Orbital Command
Rax - Barracks
Rines - Marines
Sci/SV - Science Vessel
Valks - Valkyries
Vikes - Vikings
Zerg
Bling - Baneling
Bsball - A group of tightly-packed Banelings and Speedlings
Hatch - Hatchery
Hydra - Hydralisk
Mines - Burrowed Banelings
Muta - Mutalisk
OL/OV/Ovie - Overlord
Pool - Spawning Pool
Speedling - A Zergling with movement speed upgrade
Ultra - Ultralisk
Zling/Ling - Zergling
Stay tuned as Blizzard will release another series next week regarding tactics and greetings.
Source: Battle.net (http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/47685)