Naming units

[Humphrey]

I know you can rename units you design in the workshop, but what about the units you find or start with? Is there any way to rename these without upgrading? And is there a way to give a specific name to a single unit, or do all units of that configuation have to be named the same?

[Qwerty88]

I think you have to rename all units, as for ghanging the names of predesigned units, you can change that (and the names the game gives units you design) in the alpha/alphax files

[Straybow]

Herbie Goes To Chiron

[Leon Trotsky]

The main problem is that you cannot design identical units and keep them in different slots. You can do little tricks to bypass this (if you are so desperate) as not giving deep radar to some air/sea unit, equipping non-rover units with different armor types after fusion, etc.

I especially like having my fleets composed of unique ships, as in "FDS Liberty", or "GS Bloom". Kinda corny, but fun.

[Googlie]

Yeah - we (Sparta) did that in the ACDG3 game. Early naval units had unique attributes that enabled us to name them, then have the name pop up on movement orders, etc

We did that with a handful of land units as well, creating a Spartan Kel unit that lasted well into the game before we upgraded it

[Maniac]

Tip: by naming a unit eg [Mercury] Class Transport, Mercury will appear in a different colour due to the [] brackets.