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I've noticed a tendency for ships in 40k to have their names clearly visible or otherwise made obvious. I think a crafty admiral would use this to his advantage and give his ships names that cause great confusion. Examples...

-Just a blip on the radar
-A piece of debris
-Your mother

Meh, it's pretty weak. Let's see everyone think of some better names to cause confusion.

It makes sense actually. I'd name my flagship 'Just a blip on the radar'.

Ensign: "Admiral, Your Mother is preparing a broadside!"

Admiral: "Evasive manu- Wait, what? My mother is here?"

Boom.

I can't even generate the effort to point out haw weak this is... oh wait.

- A Friendly Cruiser

- Our Own Ship

- The Planet We're Supposed To Be Defending

Hehe, when playing First Person Shooters with mates in a LAN, I frequently change my tag from 'Darkkt' to 'Teammate'.

Anything for that split second advantage...

Try naming your ship 'My Pants'.

"Fire all torpeos at My Pants!"
"Find My Pants and take it down"
"My Pants are escaping into the warp!"

I shouldnt have had that beer at lunch...

Oh god. It's like Halo PC multiplayer all over again.

"You were killed by death", "You were killed by a vehicle", etc...

I remember that. I always sucked. fething overpowered pistol. Who the feth puts a scope on a handgun?

Massive Armada


"Sir, the Massive ARmada is firing all it's weapons at us!"
"Retreat!"

"A whole mess of ships"


"a buttload of blips"


sir, something just appeared from the warp heading toward our aft port... what is it, ensign?.... sir, it's "My Penis"

Reminds me, of a little spaceship witch was named solely for sounding really funny when it was lost:

"Admiral, we just lost 'Our Faith In Humanity' to enemy fire!"

And added to the original topic:


'Eeeh, just a piece of old pizza on the radar...'

In Pokemon you can put a lame thing for your trainer to say using limited choices of words. My personal favorite was "Put Your Spoink In My Grotle." People would also nickname their pokemon with the names of other pokemon to confuse you on typing.

You can go with the Odysseus classic, "Nobody."

"Nobody's firing at us!"

Pokemon will always have idiots who make stupid names to try and be funny.

Nothing used Tackle!
Nobody used Pound!
(etc.)

'The endless void'

'Our allies'

"Sir, Our allies are firing at us!"

Defiant

ungulateman wrote:Pokemon will always have idiots who make stupid names to try and be funny.

Nothing used Tackle!
Nobody used Pound!
(etc.)

Penis gained harden!

The old classic "she's one of our's sir." is still my favorite.

Or fire at Will

and Will responds "No not at me!"

Septic wrote:

ungulateman wrote:Pokemon will always have idiots who make stupid names to try and be funny.

Nothing used Tackle!
Nobody used Pound!
(etc.)

Penis gained harden!

Heh, actually made me chuckle. Stupid internetz.

My favorite for online gaming was Delta Force 2 when people would have the screen name "A chubby puppy" and would kill themselves.

"A cubby puppy thought it was all just too much".

"Admiral, the Hard Cock is launching it's load at us!"

Yeah I can see it.

"Captain A Harmless Comet has appeared on our scopes."

"Sir A Friendly Ship is in front of us."

"Admiral! Our Allies, Our Reinforcements and Our Relief just warped in behind us!"

And of course...

"Sir there's a ship closing in on us!"
"What's it called."
"Captain Smyte You Bastard I Hate You!"
BANG! Captain Smyte executes his helmsman.
"You there, take his chair and give me an update!"
"2 ships now sir."
"Names! I want names!"
"Captain Smyte Licks Goats!"
BANG!

Yeah, you could go through a whole bridge crew that way.

Rickety piece of
The big Effing ship
Creed

"Captain, Those Pansy Eldar just warped in."

"CAPTAIN "OUR CREW IS PLANNING A MUTINY AND I'M SPEARHEADING THE PLANS, WE PLAN TO COVER YOU IN HOT MELTED CHEESE AS YOU SLEEP AND TURN YOU INTO A PIZZA WITH MUSHROOMS AND PEPPERONI AND CHOCOLATE AND CHILLI. WE ARE THEN GOING TO EAT SAID PIZZA, HAVE AN ORGY, AND WORSHIP GORK AND/OR MORK, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY AN ENEMY SHIP" HAS JUST APPEARED ON OUR RADAR"

Hive-Fleet Leviathan.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
And of course...

"Sir there's a ship closing in on us!"
"What's it called."
"Captain Smyte You Bastard I Hate You!"
BANG! Captain Smyte executes his helmsman.
"You there, take his chair and give me an update!"
"2 ships now sir."
"Names! I want names!"
"Captain Smyte Licks Goats!"
BANG!

Yeah, you could go through a whole bridge crew that way.

This wins the thread!

However, it's the taking part that counts not the winning:
"Fire upon 'The Emperor!'"

"Sir, 'That' just warped in behind us!"

or have each ship in a fleet with very similar names, eg. "The Cosmonaut, The C0smonaut, The C0sm0naut, The C0sm0nauT" etc.

Just Dave wrote:or have each ship in a fleet with very similar names, eg. "The Cosmonaut, The C0smonaut, The C0sm0naut, The C0sm0nauT" etc.

Oh, I know this! Zathras, Zath`ras, Zathràs and Za´thras No! Not Zathra`s. Zathràs!

TheSelf-Destruct Mechanism. "All hands, prepare to engage the self-destruct mechanism!

Owain wrote:TheSelf-Destruct Mechanism. "All hands, prepare to engage the self-destruct mechanism!

How about:
"our own fleet"
"something"
"the warp"
"an unarmed vessel"

"sir, 'an unarmed vessel' just opened fire on us!"
"what!?"