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Simple topic, just curious to know what names people have cooked up for their legions, chapters, kabals, craftworlds, and so on. Also to make this topic a little more than people just rattling off army names, how about you have to comment/criticise/compliment the prevous poster's names? Or maybe leave a sentence or two on why you chose your names. Also I did do a search before-hand as I assumed this would be a pretty common topic, alas I found nothing, or maybe I just fail at internetting.

Anyway here's mine:

Necrons: "The Necromancer's Court"-This is because my lord is simply known as "The Necromancer", I was also thinking of "The Court of The Black Manse", the Black Manse being the name of my necron lord's majestic tomb ship. He's something of a nomadic necron, rather than sleep on a tomb world he goes raiding forgeworlds and the like for tech, so he can restore his comrade's memories.

CSM: "The Inheritors"- Originally known as the "Inheritors of Caliban", if you couldn't guess already they're DA Fallen. Their themes include extreme arrogance and hypocriscy under the facde of justice. They believe they are the only real DA, or loyalists for that matter, and everyone else is Fallen or heretical. The name itself kinda sounds neat but doesn't actually mean anything when you think about it

Dark Eldar- "Kabal of the Withered Orchid"- Initially I was trying to decide among that, "Kabal of the Sundered Heart", and "Kabal of the Shattered Soul", in the end I think the "Kabal of the Withered Orchid" suits best, since my paint scheme has a lot of petal and flower imagery. Think cherry blossoms, and the japanese imperial symbol (I think it's a lotus or some sort of 8-petaled flower). Also the "Kabal of the Bladed Lotus" was already taken :(

Anyway there's mine, what do you guys got?

P.S. you don't have to write as much as me, I tend to get carried away with my armies' fluff, and I didn't even go that much in depth!

I call my plague marine army The Forgotten. Because they were left to die which is why they turned to nurgle.

My brother had something like that before he completely changed his nurgle dudes into completely abhorring the weakness of flesh. They're all about the dust 'n' bones aspect of death, rather than fat slobs which seem to be nurgle's thing : D

My space marines are known as the Imperial Fists, and my Kabal will be the Kabal of the Shattered Mind.

My army is called American's hahahah but the stars are for every planet they own rather then states =P

Sangfroid Chapter.

My IG are Company B of the Praetorian 37th Regiment, "The Emperor's Orphans." They're called that because due to a clerical error, they were left behind on a garrison planet instead of going on crusade. They now bum around the galaxy, fighting for anybody that can get them closer to home.

My Space Marines are the Star Owls. I actually paint an Athenian style "little owl" on each shoulder pad. They're a wisdom loving chapter that seeks clever solutions, and tends to avoid any battles of attrition.

My Biel-Tan warhost is called Warhost Chinook, which is a strong warming wind that brings great change. My Biel Tan are ultra-orthodox, and feel that eliminating other races from eldar worlds is a key step to rebuilding the empire.

Emperor's Orphans reminds me of the Odyssey, then you have the Athenian owls, not to mention my CSM are also vaguely greek inspired. It's a conspiracy!

Angels of Acquittance.

Reasons behind the name: Acquittance is a major part of the Christian theme and the split of the Dark Angels apears to be an allusion to the Protestant Reformation and as such the chapter's inner circle who are Fallen, but still serve the Imperium loyally though hiding the secrets of their past. They believe themselves to be lead by visions of Lion El' Jonson. Their goal is to collect the Fallen and purge them of the stain of dishonor before welcoming them to the ranks of the acquitted, reporting them dead to the Dark Angels.

I call my 10th company the Iron Wolves. As they have so many vechiles and siege weapons and they are known for their plasma weapons and skillful arms. And they have only ever lost 1 battle.

See sig

Ellandornia was the name of an elven city I've often used in writing, so it seemed a natural fit for the name of my craftworld.

The Marauders and the Expiditionary Cadre are named after their respective leaders (Makkan was my Chaos Lord waaaay back in 2nd, and has since graduated to DP status).

The Daemon army name, well, it just sounded good

I called my hive fleet Jormungandr, but then the new Tyranid codex came out and that was one of their new hive fleets. Now I'm trying to think of another name.

Mr Nobody wrote:I called my hive fleet Jormungandr, but then the new Tyranid codex came out and that was one of their new hive fleets. Now I'm trying to think of another name.

Really? That's some seriously weird stuff


Nothing much. Vortkrek's sons. Just kidding.

They're usually just referred to as 'my black legion guys'

Ultramarines 4th company

My friend's marines are called the warforged chapter

They have close ties with the salamanders and thier chapter master had one day discovered an artifact that he thought belonged to vulkan. After word got out an inquisitor had shown up requesting right to it, the chapter master refused saying that it is of no concern to the inquisition and thus the inquisitor struck down the chaptermaster in a climatic battle that left the chapter master on the brink of death. The chapter master would very well have died if vulkan himself not shown up along with salamander reinforcements and strangely enough, greynights were by his side. The inquisitor flew off the planet wwith the artifact after the greynights that had shown up with vulkan proclaimed that the inquisitor was a heritic. The chapter master was then put in a dreadnaught and everything was okay, eccept for the chapter master's burining nhatred for the heretic that had struck him down and made off with the artifact and thus the warforged chapter continuesly (I totally butchered that) persue the heritic inquisitor in an attempt to redeme themselves.... or the lore goes something like that lol. I think its cool.

I had a name for my ork army but i ended up forgetting it

my eldar army are called the Here we go and fail.
Due to that they have lost every single battle they have ever been in they have only ever won 1 battle.

I've got a Nurgle/Tzeentch themed Daemon army that is named the Plague-host of Turmoil. They have a C:SM war band that shares the theme named the Brotherhood of Virulent Misfortune. It's theme is a a collection of Deathguard and Thousand Sons legionnaires mixed in with other Nurgle and Tzeentch war band Marines that roam the Eye as a host for ever changing plagues and toxins. I think the two gods make for a pretty cool duality.

Ultramarines are Task Force Galatan, commanded by 2nd Company Captain Casca Maine. They're a mixed group of 1st, 2nd and 10th Company units with a little 7th and 8th Company Support.

Imperial Guard are the 444th Cadian Mechanised ('The Gate Keepers'), with elements of the 41th Tallarn Armoured Regiment ('The Iron Sands') and the Mordian 8th Artillery Brigade ('Hammer der Nacht'). Attached to them is a mixed Inquisitorial group. No real name for the group, other than their commanders (Xenos: Paula Descartes, Hereitucs: Cassius Seiko, Deathwatch: Augustus Greiz).

Chaos, again, no real name, just a collection of sub-commanders all working for/vying for position against their supreme commander, the Daemon Prince Horatio Lethus, former 3rd Company Captain of the Ultramarines and no Excommunite Traitoris.

Necrons have no name for their army.

And my Tyranids are Hive Fleet Scylla, and damned be GW's naming of 'Hive Fleet Scylla' in the recent Codex. I don't care. I did it before they did.

zane2131 wrote:My friend's marines are called the warforged chapter

They have close ties with the salamanders and thier chapter master had one day discovered an artifact that he thought belonged to vulkan. After word got out an inquisitor had shown up requesting right to it, the chapter master refused saying that it is of no concern to the inquisition and thus the inquisitor struck down the chaptermaster in a climatic battle that left the chapter master on the brink of death. The chapter master would very well have died if vulkan himself not shown up along with salamander reinforcements and strangely enough, greynights were by his side. The inquisitor flew off the planet wwith the artifact after the greynights that had shown up with vulkan proclaimed that the inquisitor was a heritic. The chapter master was then put in a dreadnaught and everything was okay, eccept for the chapter master's burining nhatred for the heretic that had struck him down and made off with the artifact and thus the warforged chapter continuesly (I totally butchered that) persue the heritic inquisitor in an attempt to redeme themselves.... or the lore goes something like that lol. I think its cool.

I had a name for my ork army but i ended up forgetting it

Yeah that was the part you butchered.

Space Wolf Wolfiwing called Kyrl Grimbloods Oathbearers.

All my armies are called "sword wind" Yes which originally were my Eldars .

but the way i play all my armies ended to be similar as well :'D

My Ig regiment's name is the Invictan 52nd, because they are from the planet of Invictus, a world that was formerly the sub-sector capitol, but lost the position after a Tyranid invasion left most of the planets industry destroyed.
The Tzeentch deamons army I am starting is called Tz'keeln's Warhost, because that will be my deamon princes name.

You can see my sig for the names of my armies... the Sunblitz Brotherhood is so named because the models resemble the helmet picture of the same name in the original Rogue Trader book. Amarie's Vertigo Tribe came about from blending many, many interesting words and concepts together, Amarie being from Tolkien which is the source of all of my Eldar names. The Wild Hunt is a reference to my custom list for Vor I wrote for my DE models. Void Jackals just sounded good.

My Freebooterz go under the name of the GoldToof Marauders.

Haven't managed to come up with a decent name for my GK force yet.

My Necrons don't have a name. They have no use for it, and no one survives their onslaught to be able to give them one.

My Space Marines are The Hands of Vengeance.

Kabal of the Budding Lotus.

Wych Cult of Gore.

Coven of the Fleshshapers.

Mine's "Space Wolves' First Company." Which I came up with (rather brilliantly) by reading the 'dex and discovering that the First Company uses lots of Grey Hunters, which I built my army around. So...

It's in my sig, but what the heck.

My Tyranids are Hive Fleet Seraphim. Why? Because they're snowy/arctic themed, and I wanted to bring something kind of angelic into my Tyranids. I know, you're probably thinking "Wow dude, you're crazy." but it makes sense in my head. I'm a writer, and Seraphim are a high chorus of angels, I love the word and the theme, and in one of my stories, an angel is in a very arctic place, as well as another story involving a swords-woman from a snowy region who was known as "The Seraphim", so the word brings an icy image to my head. That said, my Tyranids are white with a light blue carapace.

Dark Eldar: Tempest of the Plagued Winds. In the fluff I've made for my own armies, my Dark Eldar love to raid, and they often come out of nowhere, blacken the sky (like storms are around here in Minnesnowta), and wreak havoc and destruction everywhere they go. Why the "Plagued Winds" part? Partially because it sounds awesome, partially because I can see them being like a plagued wind (Aethersails, the ships, the destruction), and also partially because I love Winds of Plague for being an awesome band with an awesome name.

Current army - Inquisitor Hussein's Imperial Jihad

Next army - NYPD - Nova Yorrick Purification Department

My Orks are gonna be based off Russia, there Leader, Dmorktry Medakadev shall be leading the clan of Sorkviet Rusha to victory against the bad moons, all Meks shall have a hammer and the sickle made of out a Bad Moons emblem.

They hate the bad moons because they take all of their money and the fact that Sorkviet Rusha starting wearing Yellow before it was cool.

Yes that is my fluff, I made it in 2 minutes

"The Host of Shayde"-Csm traitors originating from my loyalist chapter,once barely numbering 300 traitor marines(3 whole companies from their father chapter)they now number 5000 thousand marines hailing from numberless different origins all assimilated under the rule of the charismatic Chaos Lord Shayde Torn this not including the insurmountable number of traitor guard he commands.Colors are dark blue and silver
"The Emperors Daemons"-The aforementioned chapter that unwillingly gave birth to "The Host" they are lead on an everlong crusade to destroy their traitor brothers by the Chapter master Cain Jericho.Colors are Orange and purple
"The Selem Death Eagles"-Imperial guard elite drop troops hailing from the forge world of Selem.Colors are Black and red