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Ok, this is for ariana malory, who asked me a question Via PM.

She was looking to know more about the terminology for fighting, mainly on the fantasy/greeko-roman to late middle ages era, and a small bit on modern warfare.

Ok, now some of more common terms are fairly simple.

Charge: if using a melee weapon, means your rush your enemy attempting to close the distance between you and them quickly. However, if a mage, then it means your building up teh magical energies needed to cast a spell.
Hack and Slash: depending on the useage, it has several meanings. Usually, if used in a sentance such as 'I love to hack and slash.', it usually is meaning they prefer to close with their enemy and use a bladed weapon, be it a sword, axe, katana, dagger, etc. However, if used to describe an action, it means your swinging your weapon in a somewhat mild crazed manner. Your just trying to hit the foe, rather then actually aiming at any specific body part.
FIRE!: This is more of a command then an action. It's usually used in conjection with a group or large force of archers, telling them all to let the arrows nocked on their bows, which means the arrow is on the bowstring and ready to be shot, loose. However, in a more modern era, it is literally giving the order to fire the soldier's guns.
spellslinger: this is a bit of a taunt towards mages, somewhat in the same vein of calling someone a gunslinger in the wild west. When used in an offensive manner, you saying they are more concerned with flashy acts then getting the job done, this is sometimes the case with a warrior. However, if used as a slight joke, then it's merely commenting on the fact that the person uses magic.
Halt: this is a typical command given by guards, military personnel, and nobles, normally used to tell the person to stop.
Lay down your arms: don't think too hard on this one, otherwise it'll seem a joke. But this is a phrase that has been kept since armies used weapons. It is one way of telling someone to surrender.
Warrior: now this is a general term, as it means someone who uses physical weapons over other forms of combat. Now, they could use their fists, a melee weapon, like a sword, or a ranged weapon, like a bow. They aren't normally known to use magic.
Mage: this is the term often used to define a magic user. It's general, but gets the point across.

Now for more modern terms:
Medic/Corpsman: This is the guy you want to save your life if you get hurt in combat. They are the people who are trained to be in the heat of battle and aid the wounded.
IFV: Infantry Fighting Vehicle. This means it's a troop transport that can fight while protecting the soldiers inside.
MG: Machine gun. there are light machine guns, weapons a single man or a 2 to 3 man squad can use, then there are heavy machine guns, weapons that require a 2 to 3 man team or to be mounted a vehicle.
SMG: sub-machine gun. a weapon the has the high fire rate of a machine gun, but with much smaller rounds, formerly pistol rounds, but now SMGs, or PDW, Personal Defense Weapons as they are getting known now, are using more customized rounds.
Helo: helicopter.
Tango: bad guy, usually labeled as such after shooting at you

If there is anythign else you'd like a little clarificaiton, or some other info you would like, don't be afraid to ask.

ok, fist fights, i'm not so good with, but some other terms are hooks, and uppercuts are the two I can think of. what a hook is, I don't know. but an uppercut is a fist being throw up into the other person's jaw.

and yes, Launched can be used to describe a sudden attack.

Ok I know some stuff bout the Desert Fox if I'm allowed to say my two sense. Rommel was a Hit and Run master who used tanks to tread across the sand fire a few rounds to get other tanks to follow them back to said traps. While I don't know anything about the British Trap your talking about Rommel used his Tanks superiortity to out manuver his oppents tanks and let his Flak's do the job as his tanks came back. When the Allies were advancing towards Africa Rommel decided to pull out but not leave all his things unmanned he had the brilliant to pull out of Africa BUT make sure the Allies took heavy Causilities as they advanced. Mines and Flaks were a constant problem but no so much the actual Infantry. In case you don't know Allies tanks sucked compared to German Tanks in WW2 we could just mass produce them which the German's couldn't hence why we had such a vast number of them compared to the few the German's had.

What are your opinions on space based warfare?

Well, I'm starting up a space RP, it's probably not going to start out with much big military action but with a little luck it'll get there; I was wondering if you'd like to join, maybe be a tactical consultant or something, flesh out some strategies

Well, I'm trying to be fairly realistic; there's details to support everything from railguns to gravity bombs and numerous methods of FTL, as well as many races. So who's in the battle could mean a lot more; So it works out to be similar to modern warfare in general, the smaller, economically weaker groups have inferior equipment. I haven't really worked out the sublight propulsion, but it will definitely end up that big things take more power to move, and are less responsive.

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