not right off hand. It was on a battle report I read on a forum. I can try and track it down. I was just using it as an example of my point.

Oh don't misunderstand me, I'm not placing the blame solely on 3++, but at the same time it's not 3++'s fault that other people do it as well. Like if you don't like the writing style of a writer at a newspaper. Does it make a difference that other writers at other newspapers use similar styles? Nope. You still don't like reading the style in question. I have just run across more and more posts on various sites that rely on these short hand acronyms to the point of it becoming txt-speak. If you don't already know the meaning of the phrase, then "the DP IDed the DA before taking a BL" doesn't tell you anything. There's a concept in writing, I've run across it in term paper writing but I've been lead to believe that it prevails in all forms of writing: "Write for your audience, not for yourself." Yeah great. You know what you mean when you say "the DP IDed the DA before taking a BL". Does anyone else who reads that same passage know it?

THANK YOU! The... 'over use' isn't the right word, the blatant laziness as displayed by the constant reliance on acronyms was driving me to stop reading 3++ for the simple reason that I couldn't understand what the hell you people were talking about!

'the DP IDed the DA before taking a BL.' I'm sorry, are we talking about Black Legion? Dark Angels? Eldar? I'd still prefer that you guys just drop the short hand entirely as it makes you look incredibly lazy, but a list of acronyms is at least a conciliatory bone tossed to those of us that didn't grow up with 1337 speak.