Naming Your Dudes

Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:

No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.

If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

**Jeeves**

With the only named Iron Hands character being Vaylund Cal (Sons of Medusa), who I don't particularly like, I've been coming up with names for names for my dudes, 40K being about YOUR DUDES after all (http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Your_dudes). I've been pretty lazy and used a list of famous engineers from wikipedia, but they can be made to sound pretty good.

For example:

Iron Father Medes, Forge Master of the 3rd Company (mee-dees, named after Archimedes)

Captain Muradi, 3rd Company Commander

Vereran Sergeant Issigon, junior commander within 3rd Company

And so on. I'd like to write a whole structured Index Astartes about my chapter, but I doubt it would be read.

Anyway, has anyone else been nerding it up and naming your dudes? How do you pick names, for awesomeness or themes? What rank level do you go down to? And what names do you give them? This is not necessarily limited to Space Marines, anyone can throw it out there.

**Cptskillet**

I just think up random names. Usually taking a name I know and adding a funny ending. Like my Chapter Master Thassarios. Aka thassarian from wow just with ios added xD. My chapters chief librarian Kaliko. Chief Apothecary Austinius. Chief Chaplin Tylarius. So on and so forth. Last 2 names are actually my sons' names lol

**M138**

I try and pick some fake-icus latinus when I name my space marines most of the time. I recently named one for a narrative campaign I'm going to do. Agregos captain of the 5th company is my latest one. I generally don't go to a lower rank. Hopefully the more games and stuff I play I'll be able to name more of them.

**dakkajet**

My method of naming is either taking the first name that comes to my head when I see the finished model, or staring a the models posture and facial expressions to find a name or nickname. Ex. Company Comander Hooly or "Throwy" to name a few.

**Ailaros**

I have a naming convention that I have for my guardsmen, and if I need a name, I just follow that.

I don't usually name minis though, excepting the ones I need for narration, which tends to be relegated to officers and special characters.

**pm713**

I just don't put effort in for example my Trygon is called Spikey.

**Taffy17**

My Riptide's name is Rippy. It was inspired by my mates Defiler, which is called Deffy.

**Da krimson barun**

dakkajet wrote:
My method of naming is either taking the first name that comes to my head when I see the finished model, or staring a the models posture and facial expressions to find a name or nickname. Ex. Company Comander Hooly or "Throwy" to name a few.

actually you took the name hooly from iron guard. My names are ussually inspired by other bits of backround or what they are
Skullkraka(named after warboss skullkrumpa from the battle of cardim)
Dreddy the deff dread(and also the chaos dred in rejects)
Steeljaw da nob
Boo da blood axe nob(he has his hands rasied obove his head-I imagine him as jumping from the bushes shouting his name)
Da git wiv da golden slugga:bad moon nob.
I cant think of the rest.

**Jeeves**

I thought I may have nerded out a bit much. In 3rd I had what I thought was a competitive Flesh Tearers list that actually got tabled in a small tournament against a better Black Templar list and then by Ulthwe starcannon spam. Coming back I have moved to fluffy stuff, some of which like my Iron Sentinels is homebrew, and narrative games that involve a third player as a GM controlling a small neutral faction, that sot of thing to make the games tell a story.

Not being able to get many games in I sometimes crank the nerd in me up a few notches

**Verviedi**

My Carnifex = Ugo (After a Bond villain)
My Zoanthrope = Zoey (People at my FLGS just call it that)
My Venomthrope = Venom (Zoey's evil counterpart! No synapse, and green vents instead of tan vents!)

**Experiment 626**

For my Daemons, I like to give a suitable name to each actual daemonic character, (Greaters, Princes & Heralds), and also I've given every unit it's own name as well...

Tzeentch's boys are:
The Lord of Change, --------- Doomscribe, The Feathered Fatechanger, Tzeentch’s Malice
The Daemon Prince, --------- Spirit Swallower, The Great Woebringer, Tzeentch’s Burning Emissary

My Tzheralds, ---------- The Burning Omen, Scribe of Destinies, Tzeentch’s Prognositcar
----------- Blazing Brightwind, The Golden Mutator, Tzeentch’s Word
----------- The Great Reborn One, Darkling Doombringer, Timewither
----------- The Altered One, Accursed Conjurer, Tzeentch’s Deciever
----------- The False Prophet, Blessed Warpweaver, Tzeentch’s Stormcaller

The Soul Grinder 'Spiritblaze’, The Flameforged, Bringer of the Firestorms, Tzeentch’s Lost Child

Bwahahaha! Right, like I'm going to *really* spill the beans on my Daemons' True Names?! Foolish mortals!

**Bobthehero**

I use serial numbers. With the platoon number on a shoulder pad and the squad number on the other.

**Ustrello**

For my Knight house I took the Dynasty line from a famous Swedish monarchy line, specifically those who fought in the 30 years war, Vasa and the Faction leader being Baron Gustavus for Gustavus Adolphus. Lord Gars for the errant, gars being the name Gustavus took when he wanted to go out on patrols and fight alongside his men. Then there is Lord Torstensson for the Paladin.

**soomemafia**

1. Buy/own 50 Space Marines
2. Name every single one of them
3. To be more precise, name every single one of them 'Bob'
4. Offer to introduce them all to a stranger
5. ????
6. Profit.

**Happyjew**

Well after 5th ed Tyranids dropped with "The Parasite of Mortrex" and "The Doom of Malan'tai", I decided to follow suit with my Hive Tyrants.

As such I have
"The Scourge of Kimmeria"
and
"The Sorrow of Macharia"

**Jihadin**

My Blood Angels.....list of Angelic names
My DIY Space Marines Clan Task Force.names from Battletech universe
My Tau......"......."
My CSM is whatever evil, gross, diabolical, dark names I can think of
My Dark Eldar......Just the Archon I name "Drizzt"

**Asherian Command**

I go to baby names.org/.com

and just find really name

**Forgemaster Argos**

Every one of my marines will eventually have a name, cataloged equipment, a list of honors and a reference number for easy accessibility.

In choosing, I use rpg name generators and see what appeals to me, bearing in mind that the salamanders use syllable apostrophe syllable format from time to time.

Kudos to you for taking on the commitment to do the big lore write up.

FM Argos

**casvalremdeikun**

Since Crimson Fists seem to favor Spanish names, I have taken to naming many of my marines Spanish names. I haven't gone through the trouble naming more than just my Captain (Alejandro Torres), Dreadnought (Brother Julio), and my sergeants (Tactical Squad 1 - Juan Alvares, Tactical Squad 2 - Marco Savales, Devastator Squad - Bernardo Ortega, Scout Squad - Jose Vega). I may go through the trouble of naming the rest at some point, especially the veterans in the Command Squad (and the Apothecary), the Sternguards, and the Honor Guard for Pedro Kantor.

**EVIL INC**

Sometimes, I'll name a model if I model or convert it soecifically for that purpose. For example my sarge with the shovel is the shoveler from mystery men.
Otherwise, they dont get names till after they earned it. When I have a guy who always does well or seems to be the one las cannon guy who always kills the tanks or something like that they EARN a name. Till then, they are just guys.

**vipoid**

1) Create an IG army with 200+ infantry.
2) Create a name, personality and backstory for every model.
3) Whenever one of your models is killed, insist that you be allowed to play The Last Post and read their eulogy before continuing.
4) Wonder aloud why a rulebook appears to be sticking out of your forehead.
5) ?????
6) Profit.