Glossary:
.338: .338-calibre battle rifle, standard issue to Imperial Guard units not equipped with lasguns. Takes its appearance and mechanism from an FN FAL/L1A1 SLR.
1B1T: An ammunition belt with one round of tracer loaded after one round of standard ball, used in bow and co-axial guns on armoured vehicles.
2IC: Second in command (Executive officer).
Accatran: Remington. An Accatran shotgun is a Remington 870.
Atreides Cavalry: Mounted brigade inspired by the Russian Cossacks.
Avenger: A ground attack bomber used for dive-bombing. The perforations in its dive-brakes give it an accompanying wail during its dive.
Ball and tracer: An ammunition belt loaded with standard ball and tracer rounds; usually one-in-five.
Bog Roll: Toilet paper.
Bondo: Combat zone.
Bootneck: Nickname used by the Imperial Guard to refer to Navy Armsmen.
Brass Exchange: Firefight.
Buck: Experience.
Buckshee: Spare kit acquired without proper chits.
Bunch of Fives: Punches.
Bundook: Rifle.
Cain: Military phonetic for the letter C, used instead of Charlie.
Cain Cain: CC stands for consecutive call, used when the caller wishes to talk to more than one callsign ie, the entire platoon.
Cain Zero Alpha: Cain Company commanding officer.
Cake and Arse Party: Not very good.
Castra: Break-action 40-millimetre grenade launcher (M79)
Chariot: Six-wheeled, ten-tonne armoured vehicle visually similar to an Alvis Saracen.
Cheggers: Referring to anyone who you don't know and isn't important enough to remember their name.
Chippy: Rubbish kit.
Co-ax: Coaxial gun mounted beside a tank's main battery, usually a .338-calibre stubber or a heavy bolter.
Chogey: Locally employed civilian.
Compo: Field Rations.
Concussion Grenade: A grenade designed to kill using explosive force rather than fragmentation.
Cover: Refers to headgear. Soft cover = cap/beret, hard cover = helmet.
CP: Command Post.
Crap Cap: Field cap.
Crotch: The Imperial Guard.
Dig out: Help yourself.
Doss bag: Sleeping bag.
Frog: All-gun model Vendetta armed with missiles for ground attack. Takes its name from the missile-armed Bell UH-1 'Huey' used in the Vietnam Conflict.
Fullscrew: Corporal.
Glasshouse: Military Prison.
GOC: General Officer Commanding.
Grapo: Break-action, 40-millimetre grenade launcher (HK69A1)
Green Slime: Military Intelligence.
Grenz: A Kazalak visually similar to an MPI-AKS-74N, firing special tungsten-carbide ammunition.
Grollies: Underpants.
HE: High explosive.
Hennus: Four-tonne truck resembling a Bedford lorry.
Hoik: Throw.
Hollow Point: A jacketed hollow point (JHP) is a bullet with a hard metal coating designed to expand on entering the target thus maximising tissue damage and blood loss/shock.
Horror Bag: Military packed lunch.
Horus: Six-wheeled, eleven and a half-tonne armoured vehicle based off of an Alvis Saladin.
Iggery/Ricky-Tick: Quickly.
IM: Imperial Manufactora, 40K equivalent of FN Herstal merged with General Motors.
Imperator Victrix: A commonly read, frequently published newspaper.
Jack as Ten: Rubbish.
Jankers/Fizzers: Slang for non-judicial punishment ie, a charge.
Kazalak: Assault rifle (Autogun), 40K equivalent of the Kalashnikov but chambered in 9.5 mm/.374-calibre.
Klick: Kilometre (0.6 miles).
Krupnok: .50-calibre Stubber based off a DShK 'Shpagin'.
Lance Jack: Lance corporal.
Lecta: .45-calibre automatic carbine visually similar to the Thompson submachine gun. Feeds from both stick and drum magazines.
Long Range Sniper: Artillery.
Mark VII: A Leman Russ tank currently in frontline service. Routinely armed with 125 mm smoothbore cannon, Vanquisher variants (Bomb) have rifled cannons.
Molota: Belt-fed stubber equivalent to a Czech VZ. 59 machine gun.
Moses: Browning equivalent. A Moses stub pistol is an FN Browning 9 mm.
Moxifloxacin: Anti-bacterial agent.
MP: Military Police, the branch responsible for discipline in the Imperial Guard.
Nathaniel: Nickname for Chaos Space Marines.
NCO: Non-commissioned officer, an officer that has not yet earnt a commission ie, a lance corporal.
NIG: New In Green, someone new on deployment.
No.2 Uniform: Attire worn for most formal duties (No.1 is only for ceremonial occasions).
OC: Officer Commanding (company level and above).
One Zero Alpha: Number 1 Platoon commanding officer.
OG: Olive Grey, a common uniform colour in the Imperial Guard.
Outgoing Mail: Friendly artillery firing overhead.
Phase 1: Basic training.
Pom-Pom: Anti-aircraft nickname.
Recce: A look around.
Rekyl: Magazine-fed .30-calibre stubber. Cross between a Bren and a Madsen machine gun.
Roga: Bullpup, magazine-fed, 12.7mm rifle similar to an ASH-12
RSM: Regimental Sergeant Major: The senior non-commissioned officer in charge of discipline within a unit. Holds the rank of Warrant Officer Class One (WO1) and is referred to as sir. Sergeant major is not a rank, rather an appointment.
Scatheros: Franchi SpA. A Scatheros shotgun is closely based off a SPAS-12.
Scoba: Bofors. A Scoba 84 mm recoilless rifle is identical to a Carl Gustav rocket launcher.
Scran/Scoff: Food.
SEGCOM: Segmentum Command.
Slamjets: Cold War era jet fighters (MiG-17/Phantom). Obsolete in the 41st millennium.
SNCO: Senior (or Staff) Non-commissioned Officer ie, Colour Sergeant (C/Sgt).
SP: Self-propelled gun, a tank chassis mounting a howitzer/anti-tank gun (Basilisk).
Sprogs/Wetnoses: Recruits.
Square Bashing: Military drill.
Staffy: Staff Sergeant.
Stag: Guard duty.
Star of Terra: The Imperial Guard equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
Stickie: Derogatory nickname for any and all eldar, Craftworld, Corsair, etc.
Stronica: Submachine gun (autopistol) identical to an Uzi.
Stubber: Automatic weapon roughly equivalent to 20/21st century machine guns. An IM .338-calibre stubber is an FN MAG/GPMG, .50 calibre (12.7 mm) stubber is an M2 Browning. A Vraks pattern stubber is an MG42 'Spandau'.
Stump-thrower: Nickname for an 82 mm medium mortar.
Subaltern: Officer below the rank of captain (British Army).
Sulpha Powder: A thin white powder when sprinkled on a wound allegedly prevents infection, also comes in tablet form.
Sunray: Callsign denoting troop leader (Platoon commander upwards).
Sunray Minor: Callsign of troop second in command.
Tankie: Nickname for tank crewmen (British Army).
Them: Used to refer to Imperial Guard Special Forces (Stormtroopers among others).
Tracer: Rounds holding a pyrotechnic charge in their base. When shot the pyrotechnic composition burns brightly, to the untrained eye it appears similar to a thin plasma bolt. Can be red, blue, white or green.
Track: Any tracked armoured vehicle that isn't a tank ie, a Chimera.
Two Zero Alpha: Number 2 Platoon commanding officer.
Volg: 40K Colt/Vickers Manufacturing Company equivalent, Volg stubbers being Vickers 'K' machine guns. A Volg pistol is a Colt .45 automatic.
Voss: Ingram Military Armament Corporation. A Voss autopistol is an M-10/11.
Walloon: Directional mine no different from an M18 Claymore.
Wex: Machine Pistol (Autopistol) identical to a 9-mm MAT-49
Whack-ho: Can mean anything but no, similar to the American 'hoo-ah' or 'oo-rah'.
White Phosphorus: Made from the chemical element phosphorus, it is self-igniting, burns fiercely and can ignite cloth, fuel, ammunition, etc. WP is used in smoke, tracer, illumination and incendiary munitions; most useful for creating smokescreens and masking infra-red signatures.
Windproof: Hooded smock worn in cold weather coloured green, brown and khaki.
Wolf: Four-wheeled drive utility vehicle, inspired by the British Army Landrover.
Woolly Pulley: Green military issue jersey.
Wounded Lion: Decoration for being wounded in action, roughly the same as a Purple Heart.
Zeke: Nickname used to refer to any and all Chaos militia. Cultists are exempt.
Zero: Callsign for Headquarters.
Zero Alpha: Headquarters Command.