There are literally thousands of TLA's (three-letter acronyms) and ETLA's (extended three letter acronyms) in common use, both on the Internet and in Real Life. While we see many of those here on Bartertown, we should probably list only the most useful, and point questioning folks to places like The Acronym Finder if they need more.
Naturally, we Games Workshop fans are going to have our own set of TLA's that the rest of the world couldn't possibly care less about. That is what this thread is for, and I entreat the moderators to amend this post with additional suggestions by other Bartertown users as they come along, rather than have a rambling train of multiple posts, each of which contains only a few acronyms that we haven't already listed.
Warhammer 40,000-Specific Acronyms
- 1kSons/TS/TSons - Thousand Sons (Chaos Space Marine Chapter)
- AC - Assault Cannon
- BA - Blood Angels
- BBB - Big Black Book
- BT- Black Templars
- CA - Chapter Approved
- CF - Chainfist
- CSM - Chaos Space Marines
- CWE - Craftworld Eldar
- DA - Dark Angels
- DE - Dark Eldar
- DH - Daemonhunters
- DW - Deathwing (specific Dark Angels units)
- DWV - Death World Veterans
- GK - Grey Knights
- HK - Hunter-Killer [Missile]
- IG - Imperial Guard
- LC - Lightning Claws
- PDF - Planetary Defense Force
- PF - Power Fist
- RT[-era] - Rogue Trader[-era]
- RW - Ravenwing (specific Dark Angels units)
- SB - Storm Bolter
- SM - Space Marines
- SOB - Sisters of Battle
- SW - Space Wolves
- TH/[SS] - Thunder Hammer/[Storm Shield]
- TSOALR - Turn Signals on a Land Raider comic strip
- WH - Witchhunters
- [WH]40K - Warhammer 40,000
- BM - Beastmen
- BOC - Beasts of Chaos
- BT - Bloodthirster
- DE - Dark Elves
- DOW - Dogs of War
- GUO - Great Unclean One
- HE - High Elves
- KOS - Keeper of Secrets
- KOTWW - Knights of the White Wolf
- LOC - Lord of Change
- O[&]G - Orks [&] Goblins
- OK - Ogre Kingdoms
- TK - Tomb Kings
- VC - Vampire Counts
- WE - Wood Elves
- WH[FB] - Warhammer [Fantasy Battle]
- BB - Blood Bowl
- BFG - Battlefleet Gothic
- FW - Forgeworld
- GW - Games Workshop
- LOTR - Lord of the Rings
- SG - Specialist Games
- SH - Space Hulk
- WD - White Dwarf
- AD&D - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
- CCG - Collectible/Conifigurable Card Game
- D&D - Dungeons and Dragons
- FOW - Flames of War
- [IK]WM - [Iron Kingdoms] War Machine
- MTG - Magic: The Gathering
- SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism
- Wo[t]C - Wizards of [the] Coast
Common Buying/Selling/Trading Acronyms
- BM - Bare metal
- BT - Bartertown
- FS - For Sale
- FT - For Trade
- H - Have
- LE - Limited Edition
- MIB - Mint in Box/Blister
- NIB - New in box/blister
- OOP - Out of Production/Print
- PM - Private message
- W - Want
- WTB - Want to buy
- Wtd - Wanted
- WTS - Want to sell
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- IANAL - I am not a lawyer
- IM - Instant message
- IMHO - In my humble opinion
- LOL - Laugh out loud
- RTFM - Read the fine manual
