How do you name your units/armies?

[timerover51]

I looked through Archibald's Fighting Ship of the Royal Navy, and it has hundreds of ship names used. Mythological creatures used include the following.

Wivern, Cyclops, Gorgon, Minotaur, Centaur, Medusa, Scylla, Charybdis, Pegasus, Dragon, and Phoenix.

There are a large number of mythological and legendary beings used as well. From the Iliad, you have Hector, Nestor, Ajax, Achilles, Diomede, Cassandra, Agamemnon, and Thetis (mother of Achilles). Most of the Roman pantheon is used, verses the Greek, but you do have some ships with the names of Greek deities, such as Apollo. Basically, all of Greek and Roman legends and myths would be fair game for ship names for the English.

I will see if I can put a list together of ship names to go with my Leader and City lists.

 

[walletta]

I looked through Archibald's Fighting Ship of the Royal Navy, and it has hundreds of ship names used. Mythological creatures used include the following.

Wivern, Cyclops, Gorgon, Minotaur, Centaur, Medusa, Scylla, Charybdis, Pegasus, Dragon, and Phoenix.

There are a large number of mythological and legendary beings used as well. From the Iliad, you have Hector, Nestor, Ajax, Achilles, Diomede, Cassandra, Agamemnon, and Thetis (mother of Achilles). Most of the Roman pantheon is used, verses the Greek, but you do have some ships with the names of Greek deities, such as Apollo. Basically, all of Greek and Roman legends and myths would be fair game for ship names for the English.

I will see if I can put a list together of ship names to go with my Leader and City lists.

As I'm into playing the Germans right now, I could use some German ship names. Bismarck, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are all I know (because my brother used to make Airfix models of them when I was a boy). There must have been a Bluecher at some point.

 

[agonistes]

Actually I decided I didn't like it and switched back to naming them after cities. Currently I'm using the name of the city that built the ship, plus the sequential number. For early ships.

True offensive ships I'm expecting I'll stick with royalty, first names and last. Like HMS Carolingian.

 

[timerover51]

As I'm into playing the Germans right now, I could use some German ship names. Bismarck, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are all I know (because my brother used to make Airfix models of them when I was a boy). There must have been a Bluecher at some point.

I am trying to find a good online German Order of Battle for the ships involved in the Battle of Jutland, as that would give you the largest number of German Ship Names. Here are a couple of sites giving the names of the German ships of the German East Asian Squadron under Graf von Spee, which fought the Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands in World War 1, and also the German Ships involved in the Battle of Dogger Bank in World War 1. One of them is the German armored cruiser Blucher, mounting twelve 8.2 inch/210 millimeter guns, which the Germans used as a battlecruiser.

Then you also have the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau which were caught in the Mediterranean at the start of the war, and escaped to Turkey, helping bring that country into World War One on the side fo Germany and Austria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_East_Asia_Squadron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_(1915)

The following site gives you in narrative form the German ships at the beginning of World War 2, from the UK official history of the War at Sea. You will just have to go through it to pick them out.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RN-I/UK-RN-I-4.html

The following work on Project Gutenberg gives narrative information on the German Navy at the start of World War One. Go to Part II-Naval Operations, Strength of the Rival Navies on page 196.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29270/29270-h/29270-h.htm

World War One German destroyers, called by them torpedo boats, were given letter-number designation based on the builder and design. The principal letters used were "V", "S", "B", and "G". If you want to save time naming them, the first letter of the port they were built at followed by a number would be reasonable. In World War 2, the German destroyers were given names.

I hope that this helps.

Edit Note: The Germans in World War 2 also used a number of armed merchant raiders that did considerable damage, so you might want to consider adding them as well. A good unit to use would be Wyrmshadow's Liberty Ship, which can be found here.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=5386

 

[timerover51]

As I'm into playing the Germans right now, I could use some German ship names. Bismarck, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are all I know (because my brother used to make Airfix models of them when I was a boy). There must have been a Bluecher at some point.

Here is a list of German battleships for World War One,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battleships_of_Germany

 

[walletta]

I am trying to find a good online German Order of Battle for the ships involved in the Battle of Jutland, as that would give you the largest number of German Ship Names. Here are a couple of sites giving the names of the German ships of the German East Asian Squadron under Graf von Spee, which fought the Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands in World War 1, and also the German Ships involved in the Battle of Dogger Bank in World War 1. One of them is the German armored cruiser Blucher, mounting twelve 8.2 inch/210 millimeter guns, which the Germans used as a battlecruiser.

Then you also have the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau which were caught in the Mediterranean at the start of the war, and escaped to Turkey, helping bring that country into World War One on the side fo Germany and Austria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_East_Asia_Squadron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_(1915)

The following site gives you in narrative form the German ships at the beginning of World War 2, from the UK official history of the War at Sea. You will just have to go through it to pick them out.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RN-I/UK-RN-I-4.html

The following work on Project Gutenberg gives narrative information on the German Navy at the start of World War One. Go to Part II-Naval Operations, Strength of the Rival Navies on page 196.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29270/29270-h/29270-h.htm

World War One German destroyers, called by them torpedo boats, were given letter-number designation based on the builder and design. The principal letters used were "V", "S", "B", and "G". If you want to save time naming them, the first letter of the port they were built at followed by a number would be reasonable. In World War 2, the German destroyers were given names.

I hope that this helps.

Edit Note: The Germans in World War 2 also used a number of armed merchant raiders that did considerable damage, so you might want to consider adding them as well. A good unit to use would be Wyrmshadow's Liberty Ship, which can be found here.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=5386

Here is a list of German battleships for World War One,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battleships_of_Germany

Awesome. Thanks both.

 

[agonistes]

Funny, but now that I am naming my ships, and giving them a * if they are flagships, or for exploring out of the way places, I am taking more care of them. I used to just leave galleys laying around, not caring if pirates got them, but not anymore.

I've decided that any exploration vessel that gets 5 * gets 1 # instead, designating it as a "legendary" ship, and the next flagship will get that earlier ship's name in honor of it.

I will raise high war with the Germans if they sink my "Konstantinos #", which explored the Northwest Passage, Greenland, and rounded the tip of South America.

 

[timerover51]

Funny, but now that I am naming my ships, and giving them a * if they are flagships, or for exploring out of the way places, I am taking more care of them. I used to just leave galleys laying around, not caring if pirates got them, but not anymore.

I've decided that any exploration vessel that gets 5 * gets 1 # instead, designating it as a "legendary" ship, and the next flagship will get that earlier ship's name in honor of it.

I will raise high war with the Germans if they sink my "Konstantinos #", which explored the Northwest Passage, Greenland, and rounded the tip of South America.

The Galleys and Curraghs that I use for initial exploration tend to be named after exploratory ships. I use the following a lot: Argo, Jason, Golden Fleece, Endeavor, Half Moon, Resolution, Discovery, Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta, Victoria (Magellan's ship that made it home), Argonaut. For Viking exploration ships, I use names like: Erik's Journey, Leif's Luck, Bjarni's Voyage, Herjolf's Travels, Iceland, Greenland (or Gronland), Vinland, Markland.

 

[Kirejara]

Funny, but now that I am naming my ships, and giving them a * if they are flagships, or for exploring out of the way places, I am taking more care of them. I used to just leave galleys laying around, not caring if pirates got them, but not anymore.

I've decided that any exploration vessel that gets 5 * gets 1 # instead, designating it as a "legendary" ship, and the next flagship will get that earlier ship's name in honor of it.

I will raise high war with the Germans if they sink my "Konstantinos #", which explored the Northwest Passage, Greenland, and rounded the tip of South America.

So do I.

Yesterday I nearly lost the command ship of my Fast Carrier Fleet, the Battleship USS Dominance (Warchief Attacks at Dawn) to an inferior russian Armored Cruiser. She withdrawed redlined to the next harbour under escort, while the Battleship USS Irresistible (Warchief Burning Sky) took over the fleet.

I also promote the captains of successful elite ships.

To my surprise in this game my first elite promotion was an underpowered Canoe (Transport, Map Making), the USS Spirit of Ontario (Chief One more Barrel) and not one of my War Canoes (Warship, Mathematic).

But with a little luck I can name the next launched Battleship to "USS Chieftain of Russia".