3H1C – 3 Heroes 1 Chaff youtube channel (link)
Ability Dice – Sets of dice with the same value rolled during Initiative Phase
Activation advantage – ability to activate fighters more times than the opponent
Aethercannon – Grundstok Thunderer with aether cannon, fighter from Kharadron Overlords faction
Ally – Fighter included in warband from other faction within the same grand alliance
Annie – Annihilator, fighter from Stormcast Eternals Thunderstrike faction
Anvil – Durable fighter that can survive strong attacks
AoS faction – Faction without Dedicated Warcry box, where specific fighters are acquired from Age of Sigmar boxes
AT – Askurgan Trueblades faction
Battlepack – Set of Battleplans, often in a structure ready to be played during tournament
Battleplan – Mission description including victory conditions and sometimes exceptions from general rules. In most situations it also include deployment map. Can also include Twist
Bespoke faction – Faction released specifically for Warcry with all the faction profiles available from the same box.
Bladeborn Fighters – Fighters from Warhammer Underworlds warbands with Warcry fighter profiles
Blessings – Divine Blessings, optional rules from WD available HERE
Body blocking – Denying access to certain locations by positioning on only available path
BoCH/BoC – Beasts of Chaos faction
Brewgit – Gloomspite Gitz fighter from Gobbapalooza
Calthia – Calthia Xandire, bladeborn fighter from Stormcast Eternals Thunderstrike faction
Chaff/Chafe – cheap “disposable” fighters
Chamber – Stormcast Eternals “subfaction”
Charge – Ability (most often double) that lets you do bonus move action
Clawback – fighter from Gorger Mawpack
Claw – Huanchi’s Claw fighter from Hunters of Huanchi faction
Core Book battlepack – 6 matched play battleplans published in Core Book (free rules PDF include only 2 of them)
CoS – Cities of Sigmar faction
Cyreni – Cyreni of the Abyss, bladeborn fighter from Idoneth Deepkin faction
Defense – Toughness characteristic
Deployment Map – the map showing location and time of deployment of all players deployment groups
Deployment Point – area on deployment map within 3” of which you will deploy your deployment group, marked by the symbol of that group
Deployment group – part of your warband labelled Dagger, Hammer or Shield that is deployed together
Divine Blessings – Optional rules from WD available HERE
DoK – Daughters of Khaine faction
DPA/DPAx – (Average) “Damage per activation” against a target with Toughness X, if X is not provided it is often assumed X=4.
Dragon – Mobile fighter capable of quickly killing cheaper fighters(chaff), also Zombie Dragon monster
Elite warband – Warband with 6 or less fighters
Engulfing Flames – “Engulfing Flame of Dark Artifice” ability from Horns of Hashut faction
FEC – Flesh-Eater Courts faction
Flamehurler – Demolisher with flamehurler, fighter from Horns of Hashut faction
Frog – Slann Starmaster fighter from Seraphon faction
FFP – Fight for Profit ability from Kharadron Overlords
FOMO – Fomoroid Crusher, ally available in Chaos grand Alliance (sometimes “Fear of missing out”)
GBS – Great Brey-Shaman, fighter from Beasts of Chaos faction
GG – Grave Guard, fighter from Soulblight Gravelords faction
Grand Alliance – Death, Destruction, Chaos and Order. Set of factions that can share fighters with “Hero” runemark as allies.
GSG – Gloomspite Gitz faction
GW – Games Workshop
Hammer – deployment group, but also a fighter capable of dealing a lot of damage
Headkrakka – Hedkrakka, Gob of Gork, bladeborn fighter from Bonesplitterz faction
Horde warband – Warband with 10+ fighters
HoH – Horns of Hashut or Hunters of Huanchi faction
Horns – Horns of Hashut faction
Hrothgorn – Hrothgorn Mantrapper, bladeborn fighter from Ogor Mawtribes faction
Hunters – Hunters of Huanchi or Wildercorps Hunters faction
IDK – Idoneth Deepkin faction
IJ – Ironjawz faction
John – Warcry Lead Game Developer
Katniss – Ahnslaine, Revenant Archer, bladeborn fighter from Sylvaneth faction
KB – KruleBoyz faction
KMK – Kruleboyz Monsta-Killaz faction
KO – Kharadron Overlords faction
Mark of Chaos – Battlepack available HERE
Matched Play – Set of rules intended for balanced, competitive one-off battle
Mawpack – Gorger Mawpack faction
Medusa – Bloodwrack Medusa, fighter from Daughters of Khaine
Midrange – fighter that is too big to be considered chaff and too small to be a serious threat. Most often have profile similar to Chaos Warrior. Also a name for an archetype based on such fighters.
MMR – Might Makes Right, ability from Ogor Mawtribes
Mortals – Non deamon faction for specific Chaos God
Myari – Myari Lightcaller, bladeborn fighter from Lumineth Realm-Lords faction
Narrative – Set of rules intended for playing with the same warband (that will change and evolve over time) over a campaign
Neave – Neave Blacktalon, fighter from The Blacktalons
Net – Ability (most often double that also require passing 3+ roll) that prevent enemy fighter from doing move and disengage actions that turn
Norcry – Reoccurring Warcry tournament from Norway
NPE – Negative Play Experience
OBR – Ossiarch Bonereapers faction
OGS – Optimal Game State youtube channel (link)
OMDB – Over my dead body, ability from CoS: Dispossessed
OMM – Off Meta Musing youtube channel (link)
One Sheet Pack – Battlepack available HERE
Original 6 – First 6 Bespoke warbands released: Untamed Beasts, Iron Golems, the Splintered Fang, the Unmade, Cypher Lords and Corvus Cabal
PeanutButter – Plaguebearer, fighter from Maggotkin of Nurgle: Daemons
Prog – Prog da Netter, bladeborn fighter from Gloomspite Gitz. Also believed to be a symbol of perfection by “Church of Prog”
Proxy – A model that “count as” another model
Pull – Ability that forces enemy fighter to jump directly towards you
Questor – Fighter from Stormcast Eternals Questor Soulsworn faction
QS – Stormcast Eternals Questor Soulsworn faction
Resurrection – Ability (at the moment of writing this it’s always a triple) that lets you deploy previously taken down fighters
RB/RBF – Royal Beastflayers faction
Rumble Pack – common name for WARCRY RUMBLE: GNARLWOOD CHAMPION battlepack
Salty – theSaltySea, popular Warcry youtuber (link to channel)
SATW – Swift as the Wind ability from Cities of Sigmar, Tempest Eye faction (no longer in the game)
SBL/SBGL – Soulblight Gravelords faction
Screening – Body blocking access to your important fighters with your disposable fighters (called screen in this context)
Singles – Unique dice results rolled during Initiative Phase
Skabbik – Skabbik Plagueseeker, bladeborn fighter from Skaven faction
SoS/Strength of Schedule – Tiebraker where strength of your opponents decide your standings (the easiest way to calculate it is to sum tournament points of all your opponents)
S2D/StD – Slaves to Darkness faction
Soup – Warband featuring allies (usually 2) and often thralls
Snirk – Snirk Sourtongue, bladeborn fighter from Gloomspite Gitz faction
Squid – Cephanyr, bladeborn fighter from Idoneth Deepkin faction
Tanari – Warqueen Tanari, fighter from Darkoath faction
TC – Teratic Cohort faction
TE – Tempest Eye, “subfaction” of Cities of Sigmar (no longer in the game)
Test of Champions – 3 battleplans released in WD available HERE
Teleporting Tree – one of Tree Revenant fighters from Sylvaneth faction (that has teleport ability)
Thiccboi – Annihilator, fighter from Stormcast Eternals Thunderstrike Chamber faction
Tidal Pack – Battlepack created by Salty Sea available HERE (2nd version is available HERE)
Titan – 3” to 5” move fighter with extreme damage potential
Thundercat – Stormcast Eternals Sacrosant Chamber fighter mounted on Celestial Dracoline
Toast – Wargames On Toast, popular Warcry youtuber (link to channel)
ToC – Tome of Champions, publication updating fighter profiles and other rules
TP/Tournament points – points gained for winning tournament games (usually 5/3/1 for win/draw/lose)
TTS – Tabletop simulator application, you can find it on Steam
Twist – Additional rules used during single game, rarely used in matched play
UW – Warhammer Underworlds, also check Bladeborn fighter
Vex – Vexmore, bladeborn fighter from Hedonites of Slaanesh:daemons faction
VF/VFS – Vulkyn Flameseekers faction
Warcom – Warhammer Community site
Warcrier – Amazing resource with Warcry profiles and rules available HERE
Wartally – Amazing resource for running Warcry events available HERE
WD – White Dwarf magazine
Wielder – Wielder of the blade, bladeborn fighter from Nighthaunt faction
Wildercorps – Wildercorps Hunters faction
Worldcry TTS League – Online Warcry league played on TTS organised on main community Discord
Xandire – Calthia Xandire, bladeborn fighter from Stormcast Eternals Thunderstrike faction
YR – Ydrilan Riverblades faction
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