AP

[flamingpig0]

Am I the only one who keeps reading AP as armour piercing rather than anti-personnel

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Phew!

[Raider4]

You are not.

[sultanbev]

In the BKC army lists I produce I have written A/P rather than AP, which everyone knows stands for armour piercing. Simiarly Anti-tank has been written A/T rather than AT.

[flamingpig0]

I am going to make a radical suggestion for CWC  - the AP is changed to A-Pe or perhaps AI just to avoid confusion.

[pbeccas]

No changes across rules or I'll get confused.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No changes across rules or I'll get confused.

Well I'm always confused...

[Big Insect]

All points duly noted and considered

[T13A]

Well as an ex tankie, AP is, and always will be 'armour piecing' to me. 

Cheers Paul

[flamingpig0]

Even if it was changed to A-P it  would help

[Big Insect]

This was all debated at some length during the 'play-test' stage of BKCIV and
Anti-personnel (AP)
Anti-tank (AT)
Were the most commonly accepted 2-letter designations (& we want to keep it as 2 letters max)

We looked at a number of different variants - such as Soft target (ST) Hard target (HT) - Anti-armour (a 'no-go' as that shortens to AA)
It is not that easy
As the rules are not designed at a level to accommodate different anti-armour munitions, confusion between Armour-piercing & Anti-personnel was deemed an acceptable compromise.  

[holdfast]

APers for anti personnel and ATk for Anti Tank, AP for armour piercing were the standard abbreviations we were taught at Staff College. That avoided confusion when drafting stuff in the middle of the night, when resupply orders were being put together. We felt that the addition of a couple of letters to an abbreviation was preferable to the possibility of confusion if one stuck to a limit of two letters in the abbreviation.
But I suppose putting a couple of extra letters in an abbreviation might arguably have added to the page count.