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Nah my wife has the Vibro-cannon, when I am away and she misses my Earthshaker Cannon. I think I have some serious issues..........

Oh yeah fighters F - FOXBAT, FROGFOOT, FULCRUM, FLANKER etc Plus so do the Missiles "Saccade" "Styx" "Shipwreck" "Sunburn" for ASMs.

Bombers "BEAR" "BADGER" "BLACKJACK"

And in the mean time, Orks keep it easy
Lets see... Trukk, Looted Wagon, Battlewagon, Fighta, Fighta-Bomba It's so brilliantly crude

...deffcoptas

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Jaon wrote:Gw name their vehicles from a certain catagory of aniamals, changing the catagory for different races. This does not apply to all races.

Space Marine Vehicles: Earthen Animals.
Rhino
Predator
Im sure there was more...

Space Marine Weapons: Weather Conditions:(different forms of wind , to be exact)
Storm Bolter
Hurricane Missile Launcher
Whirlwind
Cyclone Missile Launcher
Land speeder Typhoon
Land Speeder Storm
Thunderfire
Deathwind

Then we have all the other latern (actually Latin, or Greek in the case of Phobos) stuff like vindicator, redeemer(?), phobos and terminus ultra and stuff.

Eldar: Lesser Mythical Creatures:
(Wave) Serpent (actually an animal, not a mythological creature)
Wraith
Falcon (bird) (actually an animal, not a mythological creature)
Banshee
Harlequin (actually a role from the Commedia del Arte, something like a clown, not a mythological creature)
Reaper
Avatar (not a mythological creature either)

Imperial Guard Vehicles: Greek Greater Mythical Creatures:
Chimera
Basilisk
Hellhound
Griffon
Hydra
Collossus
Manticore
Devil Dog
Medusa
Valkyrie (actually from german mythology, not a mythological creature)
Sentinel (actually a kind of guard, not a mythological creature)

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:Ah. When I thought Ray, the image of a wave/column of light came to mind.
Thanks for clearing that up

Actually, the Manta is a ray, might have given you the idea.

mwnciboo wrote:Here is a Question, have the Tau named their vehicles or is it the Imperial Designator name that we use?

Obviously, those names are given by Imperials (given because of the look), as there are no terran fish on the desert planet of Tau.
Same with names for all Necrons, Tyranids and, I believe, Eldar and Dark Eldar. Some Ork names seem Orkish though.

Eldar have named their own craft, given the fact that they openly call them by their names. The vehicle names represent certin images or symbols in the Eldar mythic cycles.

Kroothawk wrote:Some comments added in red:

Jaon wrote:Gw name their vehicles from a certain catagory of aniamals, changing the catagory for different races. This does not apply to all races.

Space Marine Vehicles: Earthen Animals.
Rhino
Predator
Im sure there was more...

Space Marine Weapons: Weather Conditions:(different forms of wind , to be exact)
Storm Bolter
Hurricane Missile Launcher
Whirlwind
Cyclone Missile Launcher
Land speeder Typhoon
Land Speeder Storm
Thunderfire
Deathwind

Then we have all the other latern (actually Latin, or Greek in the case of Phobos) stuff like vindicator, redeemer(?), phobos and terminus ultra and stuff.

Eldar: Lesser Mythical Creatures:
(Wave) Serpent (actually an animal, not a mythological creature)
Wraith
Falcon (bird) (actually an animal, not a mythological creature)
Banshee
Harlequin (actually a role from the Commedia del Arte, something like a clown, not a mythological creature)
Reaper
Avatar (not a mythological creature either)

Imperial Guard Vehicles: Greek Greater Mythical Creatures:
Chimera
Basilisk
Hellhound
Griffon
Hydra
Collossus
Manticore
Devil Dog
Medusa
Valkyrie (actually from german mythology, not a mythological creature)
Sentinel (actually a kind of guard, not a mythological creature)

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:Ah. When I thought Ray, the image of a wave/column of light came to mind.
Thanks for clearing that up

Actually, the Manta is a ray, might have given you the idea.

mwnciboo wrote:Here is a Question, have the Tau named their vehicles or is it the Imperial Designator name that we use?

Obviously, those names are given by Imperials (given because of the look), as there are no terran fish on the desert planet of Tau.
Same with names for all Necrons, Tyranids and, I believe, Eldar and Dark Eldar. Some Ork names seem Orkish though.

Oh Gods... the red is really screwing with me... DAM COLOURBLINDNESS!!!

They all go on Google and start shouting out anything they see, until Jervis Johnson shouts "stop". Whatever was the last thing shouted out instantly gets trademarked and becomes the name of the model.

Mordoskul wrote:Eldar have named their own craft, given the fact that they openly call them by their names. The vehicle names represent certin images or symbols in the Eldar mythic cycles.

Ah, yes, but you're reading an english translation of the eldar...

Perhaps you are reading an English translation of a High Gothic translation of the Eldar.

Land Raider variants tend to be Greek Gods:

Ares: God of War
Prometheus: God of Fire
Helios: God of Light
Achilles: God of ...insert...

Rest include

Redeemer
Crusader
Spartan
Terminus Ultra

The Spartan can be related to Greek. The rest can be related to fighting.

Lol, laughing my ass off, reading about the realistic SM with bolters in rhinos, and after that (with my ass long being detached from my body) I start reading about the scrabble-naming and the kwijibo, I thought I will pass out...

Even though it's on the limit of being OT, please just make some more up, it's so funny

The sad fact is, that GW seems to follow a method up until a point and then suddenly their well of creativity dries up and they go...(Or some subtle variation of this)

Designer 1 "So StormDeathShieldTank or Tyrannosaurus?"
Designer 2"Well the other variant was called Triceratops, The fluff is that it is named after an ancient terran reptile."
Designer 1"Really, so this is just of variant of the Triceratops so really we should call it another ancient terran reptile"
Designer 2"Sorry what was the original question?"
Designer 1"We need to get this to ours stores as soon as possible and start ripping off impressionable adolescents and mentally challenged adults"
Designer 2"Right thats settled, StormDeathShieldTank it is!"

Calling GW out on not sticking 100% to some arbitrary nomenclature seems a little nit-picky IMO

asimo77 wrote:Calling GW out on not sticking 100% to some arbitrary nomenclature seems a little nit-picky IMO

People aren't thinking about the Space Wolf and the Blood Angel codexes (though the latter is by far the worst).

I swear, they've got more BLOOD and WOLF than vowels. Not counting the ones in the due Chapters' names.

Yeah those two are pretty bad. I wonder what's next?

For DA: The Dark Black Sword of Dark Secrets. The Dark Bike of Darkness. Darky Dark Terminators Squads of Miserable Darkness

asimo77 wrote:Calling GW out on not sticking 100% to some arbitrary nomenclature seems a little nit-picky IMO

Yes, I agree.

Most of 40K was cobbled together from whatever bits of SF and fantasy the writers happened to be fond of at the time. You can hardly blame GW for not having thought out a coherent plan at the beginning.

The naming of Tau vehicles shows they got their act together later on.

phantommaster wrote:Land Raider variants tend to be Greek Gods:

Achilles: God of ...insert...
.

Archilles was not a god. he was just immortal.

He was a demigod I believe, and was dipped in the River Styx as a baby, except for his heel, which made (most of) him immortal....however his heel was very much mortal, and being struck there killed him. Think of it like all of his mortality in one spot, hitting that would kill him.

I've noticed too that sometyranid names are taken from (relatively) religious titles.
Barbed Hierodule - Religiously protituted preistess of Ishtar
Hierophant Bio-titan - That's just a different word for priest
Lictor - Kind of a temple servant
Gargoyle - Those weird stone statues in churches that spit water
Harridan - Old witch (ok not that religious, but you know... Burn the witch!)

The ladies tremble at the mention of my
HADES BREACHING DRILL

(and coincidentally, more greek references!)

'Tank' itself came about a bit by accident as well. When it was being designed, the entire project was so secret that not even spme people working directly on it knew what it was about. They thought they were designing a water-carrier, hence the name. Once it was unveiled, though, the name stuck.

Are IG the only race with vehicles named after other GW creations? Macharius, Leman Russ, Malcador, etc...

Cryonicleech wrote:
Devil Dog? Deathstrike? Eradicator? Laem. Do something like Centaur (Which Forgeworld has done, to their credit) or Gorgon (Which also may or may not exist as a tank...)

You'll be pleased to know the Gorgon indeed exists as a tank. It's a super-heavy troop transporter. it looks like this:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/GORGON-WITH-SPONSONS-AND-INFANTRY.html

Mukkin'About wrote:The ladies tremble at the mention of my
HADES BREACHING DRILL

(and coincidentally, more greek references!)

Speaking of the ancient Greeks, that name sounds more like something the men would tremble at the mention of.


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Budgie wrote:Thats a cool story on the marines..

It seems that most armies have vehicle themes, but the Imperial Navy got lazy.... Marauder, Aquila, Thunderbolt, Lightning...

Marauder means to raid and/or pillage.
Thunderbolt and Lightning beyond their obvious sky connections were symbols used by the Emperor and his army in the early days.
Aquila means eagle and is another symbol of the Emperor.
Valkyrie is a Germanic female spirit that carries the dead off the field of battle to Valhalla.
Vendetta means vengeance.
Arvus? No idea, maybe the name of the person who discovered the STC like Land.

There is only 1 thing in Warhammer that doesn't really have a theme and thats the names of the Titans.

Imperial Titans:

Warhound (Dog)

Reaver (A different spelling of reeve which means to take away)

Warlord (A general)

Emporer (Obviously a ruler, but more likely a reference to the God Emperor since this is the largest and most powerful of the Titans)

Eldar Titans

Revenant (A spirit or ghost)

Orkz

Stompa (Obviously meaning to make it an Orky word)

Big Stompa (Same thing here)

Tyranids

Hierophant Bio Titan (More of them just giving it a scientific sounding name)

Basically with the Titans I think they name them so they fit the race. The Imperial Titans are all named after what they do, or their size. The Eldar Titan is named after a ghost or spirit since the Eldar strike like ghosts and dissapear. The Orkz to sound Orky. The Tyranids obviously to sound like a scientific name because of how we name our biological creatures.

It is interesting how you caught that with all the vehicles I never really thought of it until now. Thanks!

mwnciboo wrote:They all go on Google and start shouting out anything they see, until Jervis Johnson shouts "stop". Whatever was the last thing shouted out instantly gets trademarked and becomes the name of the model.

Just made my day

Kroothawk wrote:Some comments added in red:

Jaon wrote:Gw name their vehicles from a certain catagory of aniamals, changing the catagory for different races. This does not apply to all races.

Space Marine Vehicles: Earthen Animals.
Rhino
Predator
Im sure there was more...

Space Marine Weapons: Weather Conditions:(different forms of wind , to be exact)
Storm Bolter
Hurricane Missile Launcher
Whirlwind
Cyclone Missile Launcher
Land speeder Typhoon
Land Speeder Storm
Thunderfire
Deathwind

Then we have all the other latern (actually Latin, or Greek in the case of Phobos) stuff like vindicator, redeemer(?), phobos and terminus ultra and stuff.

Eldar: Lesser Mythical Creatures:
(Wave) Serpent (actually an animal, not a mythological creature)
Wraith
Falcon (bird) (actually an animal, not a mythological creature)
Banshee
Harlequin (actually a role from the Commedia del Arte, something like a clown, not a mythological creature)
Reaper
Avatar (not a mythological creature either)

Imperial Guard Vehicles: Greek Greater Mythical Creatures:
Chimera
Basilisk
Hellhound
Griffon
Hydra
Collossus
Manticore
Devil Dog
Medusa
Valkyrie (actually from german mythology, not a mythological creature)
Sentinel (actually a kind of guard, not a mythological creature)

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:Ah. When I thought Ray, the image of a wave/column of light came to mind.
Thanks for clearing that up

Actually, the Manta is a ray, might have given you the idea.

mwnciboo wrote:Here is a Question, have the Tau named their vehicles or is it the Imperial Designator name that we use?

Obviously, those names are given by Imperials (given because of the look), as there are no terran fish on the desert planet of Tau.
Same with names for all Necrons, Tyranids and, I believe, Eldar and Dark Eldar. Some Ork names seem Orkish though.

Im sorry but I do hate you most bitterly.

Sanguinis wrote:
Reaver (A different spelling of reeve which means to take away)

It specifically refers to robbing or plundering. The reivers of the Scottish borders were mounted raiders from both sides of the borders that preyed on everyone. I should think that they were the origin for the name reaver, there are also the reavers from the Firefly series who would share this origin.
A reeve was an official in early England, the most well known type was the Shire Reeve or Sheriff.

PraetorDave wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:Tau have fish

List of names used.
-Barracuda
-Devil fish
-Hammerhead
-Piranha
-Manta
-Tiger Shark

The odd one out is the SkyRAY, I wonder how that wasn't named a fish

Its a ray. Like a sting ray, but in the sky. Thought I would highlight for your convenience. Took me a little bit to see it though.

Often times, rays (generally the larger species) can be witnessed jumping out of the water, and gliding above the water for short distances. This may be the basis for the "sky" in "skyray"

That raises an interesting question. Was the taus excelleraated evolution sparked off by them receiving transmissions of Stingray?