Naming Units

[Meshelic]

[posted by AsleepAtTheWheel
not sure if this is the right place for this but that has never stopped me before.

Are we going to name the individual units (at least the first few) would add to the roleplay. We could name them after ourselves, though would be unfortunate when they die

posted by FrustratedPoet
Customising the name of every unit in-game is important IMHO. Even if all we do is name them Warrior1, Warrior2, Warrior3 etc... It will make it much easier to discuss strats later on.

Okay here's a good place to talk about this.

[Shiber]

Asleepatthewheel already noted that naming units after ourselves can be unpleasent when they die.
Perhaps we can make up names of generals in our army and name the units after them?
What's sure is that we'll need a system to authorize each name. I suggest that whenever a certain name wins some support, we poll to see if the people approve of this name. If a name wins a certain amount of support from the public then it will be entered into the "hat" and the Grand Poobah can pull out whichever name he likes whenever we can name a unit in the game.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Shiber
whenever we can name a unit in the game.

Am I right in thinking that we can rename every unit in the game in PTW? Not just the elites who have generated a GL...

[Conqueror]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Am I right in thinking that we can rename every unit in the game in PTW? Not just the elites who have generated a GL...

Yes we can, even the workers can be renamed

[notyoueither]

I suggest we raise 'regiments'. Each regiment could have 3 to 6 'battalions'.

So, a regiment of Horse could be the 'Storm Riders'. The first Battalion would be the 1/SR. The second would be 2/SR.

Another could be Swords in 'The Black Watch'. Thus the 1/BW, 2/BW and so on.

[Meshelic]

Sometimes I like to seperate my units by these names, for example our Storm Riders could be.

SR Home Defense
SR Grand Army

etc. Split their duties up, name the spearman in the cities as all Home Defense #(_), name the horseman and archers as either Home Defense or Grand Army

sometimes i get really deep into it and build my armies from division down to company level. It can get pretty detailed about specific units. I know, I'm crazy.

It would help with coordinating tactical orders as well. When describing a unit, all the physical player has to do is Just go to the Military Advisor screen and scroll down for the appropriate battalion name or purpose or whatever you put in there, then give them orders, move em in groups; ie lots of potential time gained back from spending the time naming those units in the first place.

[Shiber]

Can the other players see the names of units that we rename?
We need to think about that before we start revealing the position of units by their names. Another example for a revealing name would be 'Storm Riders 37th Regiment' - this reveals that we have at least 37 units of this type.

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by Shiber
Can the other players see the names of units that we rename?
We need to think about that before we start revealing the position of units by their names. Another example for a revealing name would be 'Storm Riders 37th Regiment' - this reveals that we have at least 37 units of this type.

Only if we number things consecutively. If the number is merely a designator to indicate which is which, we'd have to make sure we don't have duplicates, but otherwise, we could use any numbers we want in any order we want.

Nathan

[DeepO]

Well, it may be clear that named units wil be easier for us to follow, but the same applies to the enemy. Therefore, if a unit changes position, it should be renamed as well (is this possible?) Otherwise I'd better have totally random names, so that no grouping can be seen. Especially all numbering, and defense/offense information should be kept out of the naming, or we have to get the same amount of units which are mislabeled.

Calling a number of troops 'SR home defense' is only good if we are going to use these to attack, or support an attack. If the naming is used to deceipt the enemy, fine, otherwise I'd rather have a blend name with some kind of numbering, or even without any special name at all.

DeepO

[alva]

You can even rename colony's

[Shiber]

I suggest that we name our first warrior, which we will use to explore: 'Messenger of Good Will'. It will convey the kind of message that we want to send out to the first other player that spots our warrior near their territory.

[Arrian]

I would of course like one of our original exploring warriors to be named Grog No big deal if you all don't like the idea.

If we want to be complex about things, we go with something like this:

All horsemen are "StormRiders"
Each unit is designated by the city in which it is built (abbreviated) and a number.

Hence: 1st EoS StormRiders. 5th SwK StormRiders. etc.

We can be devious and hide our numbers by simply agreeing to skip some in each category (for horsemen we could skip 10-15, for spearmen we could skip 5-10, for swordsmen we could skip 1-5, etc).

-Arrian

[Arrian]

We could also spread disinformation by naming one of our exploring warriors "finder of the settler" or somesuch thing (well, hopefully we will get one, but changes aren't great).

-Arrian

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by Arrian
We could also spread disinformation by naming one of our exploring warriors "finder of the settler" or somesuch thing (well, hopefully we will get one, but changes aren't great).

That name could backfire if someone thinks it's THEIR settler he's looking for.

[Arrian]

I hadn't considered that.

-Arrian