Grepolis Lingo

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Some of you new peeps, may have some trouble "decoding" some of the words, and phrases the older players use (I know I did), so here's a little dictionary per say:


DLU: Defensive Land unit; usually swordsmen, archers, and hoplites

ALU (or OLU): Attack Land Units or Offensive Land Units, usually slingers, hoplites, horsemen, or whatever else is sent in an attack.

ONU: Offensive Naval unit, normaly LS, could be attcking Hydras, and Tireme

DNU: Defensive Navlal unit, usually Biremes, could be Hyras, Fireshiips, or Tiremes being used as support.





ABP: Attack Battle Points

DBP: Defensive Battle Points

"_______" nuke: this is a city which almost entirely has this one troop; for instance, a light ship nuke
has basically all light ships, so when they attack the enemy is basically overwhelmed

LS: Light Ship



BIR: Bireme


TIR: Tireme

"Hops": Hoplites

HM: Horsemen

SM: Swordsmen

TB: Transport Boat

FT: Fast Transport Ship

CS: Colony Ship

FS: Fire Ship

LTS: Long Term Support, used when the enemy has many cities neer by.

TT: Travel Time

Siege: When City A sends a colony ship to City B, the 24 hour period City A must hold City B is the siege

MRA: an Alliance that Recruits on a Massive scale/ Mass Recruit Alliance