Naming your own troops

[Dida]

I think this feature is not in, but it will be interesting to have, and not so difficult to implement.
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to name your own units? escpecially the naval units. All those navy ships have name, so why shouldn't ships in Civ3.

[Stuie]

I don't know if I'd have the patience to name individual units, but it would be nice if we could name our stacked armies.

[Dida]

they should make that, if you don't name them, they just go without a name, so that you don't have to name each an every units.

[Seeker]

If you ever played the old White Wolf game 'Empire Deluxe' every unit had its own random title like '201st Division', but if you wanted you could rename them to have your elite Republican Guard unit, Bismarck, or 'Emperor Seeker's Personal Guard'....

[Dida]

no, i never played that game, But I played Panzer General, I think units comes with a numbering system, the first infantry will be named 1st Infantry, etc. But you can still rename it to what ever you want. That's cool, and isn't too hard to do in Civ i guess.

[Rakki]

I would love to be able to designate unit names on two levels. The first would be their "parent formation". That is, perhaps 4 armour and 4 mechanized units make up the "5th Guards Tank Army" or the "1st Armored Cav". Back in Civ 2 when I had hordes of soldiers embarking, disembarking and attacking and fortifying it's just not "neat". Even though we can now stack armies, i would prefer to be able to stack armies with units from the same formation.... and when they are moving through the enemy territory it'll be much easier to keep track of which formation is doing what. (e.g. the Guards are supposed to be going north to while the Cav boys are clearing the roads)

And of course, once a unit has reached veteran or elite status it would be cool to give them a unit name ... it could be a level of micromangement that some players don't give a damn about but it'd just give that unit personality.... and instead of "Americans have taken Karachi" why not "The American 101st Screaming Eagles have taken Karachi" ?

[Boris Godunov]

Rebellion

About the ONLY cool thing about the Star Wars: Rebellion game was the naming feature. You could name every ship you produced, or it would get a numbered name (i.e. Imperial Star Destroyer 23). And, in addition to that, when you joined ships into fleets, you could name the fleet. So I would have Coruscant Fleet, which consisted of 3 Star Destroyers (always something like "Terror," "Invincible," and "Conquest") and eventually my FAVORITE, the Super Star Destroyer "Gigantic."

Heehee, I'm a dork.

[Madine]

Terror, Invincible, and Conquest sound good. (There is an "actual" ISD named Conquest. Gigantic though?

[faded glory]

Army names......"Im going to kick your ass "

Nuclear missile/Airforce names...."If you see this You are most definetaly ****ed

Navy names......"Welcome to the bottom of the ocean"

[ixnay]

I can see how this function could inject some more enjoyment into the game... Having the Aztecs launch an aircraft carrier, the A.E.S. Quetzcotl (or something to that effect).

[Shiva]

Originally posted by Seeker
If you ever played the old White Wolf game 'Empire Deluxe' every unit had its own random title like '201st Division', but if you wanted you could rename them to have your elite Republican Guard unit, Bismarck, or 'Emperor Seeker's Personal Guard'....

Hehe still is a great game

[star mouse]

Re: Rebellion

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
...and eventually my FAVORITE, the Super Star Destroyer "Gigantic."

Heehee, I'm a dork.

Yes, but you're MY kind of dork.

I'm the sort that wishes this feature was in Civ, but the only things I can name in Civ are cities. Some of my city names are pretty weird as a result.

I tend to have an earthy style when naming cities, often naming my cities after the terrain that surrounds them. So I might get names like "Lake Mountain", "Pheasant Bay", "Jungle River", "Mount Buffalo" (which is a real mountain in Australia that looks like a buffalo), etc. Then the terrain names start to repeat and the weirdness starts....

[Skanky Burns]

I liked the army naming convention used in Warlords. Each unit a city produced was named after the city, like Dormoth 3rd Cavalry, or Carmel 204th light infantry, so for ppl who dont have an imagination (like me ), these names could be the default ones. And for those ppl with an imagination, they can name their units imaginatively

Its all good.

[Sarxis]

I wouldn't use it. No time for that, and it's rather irrelevant.

Not that it wouldn't be fun, for a while. But it's just not an important feature for a game of such grand design.

[Rasbelin]

Interesting idea.

Giving specific names to your units and armies in Civ III
could be fun. In Civ II I have often split my
army into a few armies with specific tasks.

For instance the Celtic Liberation Army
is my fast combating army (paratroopers,
helicopters, etc).