Names for your leader-generating units

[Arrian]

I was reading the "Riders or Cavalry?" thread and thought it would be fun to have a thread about what people name their "*" units.

Names I use often:

Warrior(not that I get a lot of GLs from warriors) - Grog
Archer - Yeomen, King's/Queen's Bowmen
Swordsman - Guardsman, Palace Guards
Horseman - The Nine, The Companions, Robert's Raiders
Knight - Crusaders, Knights of [name of civ I was conquering]
Cavalry - 1st, 2nd, etc. Cavaliers, King's/Queen's Cavalry
Tank/Modern Armor - 1st, 2nd, etc. Armor

Additional names dependant on UUs:

Riders - Celestial Raiders
Samurai - Ronin
Legionary - Praetorian Guards

Upgraded units that then generate a leader, however, retain their name.

So... what do you guys ('n gals) name your units?

-Arrian

[Catt]

After experiencing a smiliar "Rider" as Cavalry problem myself just after 1.29f came out, I started avoiding naming -- just leaving the unit as plain old XXX. But that's boring. So now I try to give them fanciful names - often relating to a nearby city or geographic reference and often relating to the civ and/or specific leader generated. I end up with things like "Oka's Defenders," London's Raiders," Napolean's Armour," etc.

Leader names don't always work well. I recently finished a game as the Iroquois (no horses until the end of the middle ages ), and though I followed my own convention of naming a "corps" after the leader that was generated, "Cornplanter's Corps" just felt wrong for the rest of the game.

Catt

[Arrian]

"Cornplanter's Corps" Now that's funny.

I really like naming the units... it's such a small thing, but it adds some flavor, you know? I particularly like having "The Nine" running around. Makes me feel deliciously evil.

I need to come up with better names for my swordsmen and Cavalry (tanks are so late it doesn't matter to me, they can say as "1st, 2nd, etc")

-Arrian

[Ethelred]

I haven't exactly been creative in that. I tend to name tanks Patton and thats when most of my GL were generated.

I have gotten a leader from a swordsmen finally. I named the unit D'Artangnan and would use the other Musketeers if I had more from swordsmen.

I got a couple GLs from Riders and I deliberatly gave them names that would annoy Chinese. Can't remember what though. Maybe it was Flashman.

[Jaybe]

Heroes of (cityname), or (cityname)'s Heroes -- defenders
Scourge of (cityname), or Destroyers of (cityname) -- attacking/taking city
1st (...) Fusiliers -- (cavalry, of course)

In my current game, I got a leader as I took the LAST Babylon city! Alas, it is a 1.21 (Macintosh) game from work.

[Sean]

I tend to name them after versions of my self. Self-centred I know. Or things like "Liberty", since they have freed an enslaved people...;-)

[Explorer579]

I call them by the location/event/challenge that made them a leader:

1) Iron Protector
2) Last Defender
3) Boat Escaper
4) Hope Giver
etc.

[Theseus]

I started out the same as you, Arrian, with cool names from military history. Actually pulled out some of my books to keep coming up with new names.

I've been very boring now though:
First Blade
First Arrow
First Mounted
First Defender
First Motor
First Impregnable

And so on...

Boring, gotta jazz it up (although the convention works fairly well).

[coryl]

Jo Mamma
Biznatch
Whoop A**
Bite Me
Big Daddy
.etc

Fullfills my desire to talk some smack to the computer.

[LotC]

I'm so lame

I call every one of my GL generating units "done".

[Cyclotron]

I always name them after the leader they produced. Khufu's Fist, Tojo's Raiders, etc.

[MosesPresley]

Royal Guard or something along those lines.

[Inverse Icarus]

i usually get swrodsmen to do the trick, and i name them cool, manly names, like "Vlad the Impaler", "Thor the Redeemer"

[alva]

I ussually name them after my cats, again not very creative, but somehow it works

BTW: do you guys try to keep them (more), now that they have names. I'm often sad to see them die , I sort of get attached to them.

[Athitis]

Originally posted by alva848
BTW: do you guys try to keep them (more), now that they have names. I'm often sad to see them die , I sort of get attached to them.

Well, the truth is that you become more attached to anything that has an actual name. I am sad too when one of my victorious units are lost Like when I lose tanks from Musketeers.....

Names I use:

Gaurdians of Fury
Swords of the Flame
Paladins
1st (2nd,3rd etc...) Battalion
Black-Ops
High Fighters
Air