Hangar to English Dictionary

From Battleground Europe Wiki

When you step in to the Hangar, it may seem as if the denizens there are speaking another language. In many ways, they are, but forewarned is forearmed; take this handy dictionary with you!

• Whose second account is this?

Translation: "I just got my *** handed to me by a greentag. It better be someone good."

• I got CTHL/CTD

Translation: "I hit Alt-F4."

• noob

A derogatory term questioning your knowledge and skill

• li85

A mortal insult; there's an amendment in the constitution absolving anyone of any crimes committed while avenging said insult. Unless you actually happen to be li85

• Docspeak

Unintelligible jibber-jabber composed of English words and hinting at some meaning, but actually making no sense.

• Stuka

A free kill, unless you're Lithu, in which case it's Kryptonite

• stat ho

Someone obsessed with stats to the point where they damage their controllers, walls, or computers after being shot down, or those who keep 2GB big excel charts tracking every shot and kill. Also known as "chiefwo".

• Me410

Historically a modestly successful heavy fighter. In the Hangar, however, it's the mating call of "tempest7"

• vulchcap

The highly skilled tactic of killing aircraft that have recently taken off and are on their way directly from a nearby airfield to the nearby combat area. Ideally, the targets get shot down before their gear is up. Comes from "vulching" and "BARCAP". Coined by Vonnooble.

• Flak trap

Occasionally the many sub-humans also playing this game decide to spend hours forming a tight cluster of bomb targets on the ground and advertise themselves with tracer fire in your direction. Scientists have yet to determine the purpose of this suicidal behavior.

• Groundpounders

Left-over neanderthals or perhaps Cro-Magnon man. They have a pulse so naturally Bank of America sent them a credit card, and they display enough intelligence to log in, but somehow they never find their way in the air. Killing them repeatedly is fun, especially when they try to articulate their frustration in what passes for English in the Barracks and Motor Pool. See: Buggsy.

• Navy

A select group of groundpounders even more limited than the rest. Tend to be found on the waterways. Fairmile = free kill. TT = free bomber kill. DDs are ineffective to bomb or strafe, but quite fun to annoy.

• Buy more RAM

Docspeak that has since been translated to mean: no matter what's wrong with the game, it's always your fault.

• RDP

The process by which 60 combat-efficient airplanes per airfield become 10 combat-efficient airplanes per airfield over 3 stages over a period of 6-8 weeks.

• EWS

Evade the Warning System. Apparently certain aircraft light up icons around cities they pass. Best to go around the map to achieve your target.

• Buggsy

The living specimen from the Barracks brought here to test, prod, and probe. It's how we determined that groundpounders are subhuman.

• Rebel357

Shoots squirrels on phone lines to improve his internet connection. The science behind this is still being explained. Oddly self-defeating behavior, since if he lagged less, he'd get shot down more often.

• Surly

Official Hangar Liaison, even when he's not the Liaison. His job is to hijack threads and scare newbies away.

• Tempest7

A good pilot. Call out "Me410" for a good time with this good time girl.

• Thefalen

A good pilot. Unsubs every day, yet is always to be found here.

• Zacast

A good pilot with very bad gas. If you listen on TeamSpeak, when he passes gas it sounds like a flute playing.

• Madrebel

A good pilot who will break your internet connection with the sheer volume of graphs and charts he'll post every time he gets shot down.

• Chiefwo

Also, "Chiefho", "Statho", and "Statwo". Keeps a 2GB excel chart that tracks every shot he's made, missed, attempted, and everyone he's killed. Ironically, his obsession for the official CS&R stats breaks the server and causes delays at the start of the campaign. If you've been embarrassed by a H75 while flying the 190, odds are it was him.

• Wstpt10

Motor Pool Liaison who's suffered enough concussions from bombs he posts here out of confusion.

• Sparrow

We think he's Greek, but really likes Romanian planes for some reason. Makes the worst pizza you've ever tried.

• JG51

We are many. Resistance is futile. We have twenty accounts each and fifty squad accounts. Also, we use Ventrilo, so Macf@gs can bite our collective ***. You have no idea how good a collective *** feels when cigalert comes to visit.

• JG52

Fly at 9km and do combat turns that wipe out the RAF in a 15 mile radius.

• ZG76

Fly 110s throughout the map. Suspected of treason by the Axis side for helping the RAF and FAF rank up so easily.

• Shadow Squad

Formerly the great Mongolian Clusterf*ck that would blot out the sun. Since their planes have been improved, however, they whine all day. Known to retaliate with Solopics - SHIELD YOUR EYES!

• Dambusters

Took pride in flying across EWS and never losing a plane, until they announced this, after which the Axis spent 6 weeks clearing DB-7 and Havoc wrecks from across occupied Belgium and Holland.

• 4Wing

Better known as "one wing".

• TOS

Terms of Service. A way of keeping score about who's the best forum poster. Gotta catch 'em all!

Thanks go to Jakubw for coming up with this list.

Additions by popular request

• Killban

Just as every crackhead has to have a neighborhood pusher, every statho has Killban and his statbars, which we believe to be refined crack cocaine mixed with avgas.