balthamael said:
I Name my ships (usualy what i named ships in Pirates!, actualy....) and amusing units. EG my original scout warrior on my MP Earth map game i named Lucuis Berinus (was playing as Rome) i kept him upgraded and everything and he lead the conquest of the Americas, until his sad demise at the hands of a Japanese Frigate sinking his Galleon in the Japo-Rome war.
That's funny. One of my strange quirks in Civ is that if I have a fur-wearing, axe-toting warrior unit that performs well, I will rename it "His Majesty's Primitives" and fortify them up in the mountains to keep a silent vigil as my Empire's oldest and most useless unit. That unit is never upgraded, even when the rest of the army is hauling around automatic weapons, these guys are still carrying stone axes and wearing deer-fur uniforms.
In one game of Civ III as the Greeks, I had over a hundred uniquely named units. My navy consisted of over 30 capital ships (nuclear subs, cruisers, battleships and carriers in my system) and each one had a unique name, named after my friends and so forth. When I did a D-Day style landing in Persia to recover two cities they had captured from me over 1500 years before, I sent out 5 battleships, 4 cruisers, 2 subs, 3 carriers and over 10 destroyers to totally isolate their smallish continent and pound the living daylights out of the coastline, and support my landing forces at my primary objectives.
Meanwhile, I had a handful of uniquely named land units (infantry, Marines, tanks, paratroopers) form the core of my invasion force. These units I threw into battle when the stakes were high and I needed the extra oomph. Those unnamed units that helped win significant battles received unique names.
Meanwhile, my airforce, based on my carriers and my nearest cities to the invasion fleet, also had unique names for almost the entire list of bombers and fighters. I would typically name them after the city they were built in and the order they were built, such as "Christantinople 4th Fighter Wing". Since the Persians were still using mostly musketmen and cavalry, it was a relatively easy victory and my military won many honors.
I did, however, have a few unfortunate unique units get destroyed in combat (One tank unit that was low on health was hit by two cavalry units and destroyed). However, I didnt mark that unit off the list as lost in action. In real world military engagements, it is rare for an entire company or division of soldiers to be entirely destroyed in combat, and rather they usually suffer such huge casualties and loss of equipment that they cease being an effective fighting force and are pulled from the lines. So, if I ever lost a uniquely named unit, I would rebuild it in a city and consider it to be a freshly equipped and reinforced unit with a few old veterans lying around, and I send it back out to regain its honor.
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