Nameing models.

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**ImperialArmy**

Saw another member mention that all 200 of his orcs were named.
My entire Imperial Army are individually named on the base.
I started naming them to match the white dwarf adds at the time.
Anyone else name their forces?

**argonak**

ImperialArmy wrote:
Saw another member mention that all 200 of his orcs were named.
My entire Imperial Army are individually named on the base.
I started naming them to match the white dwarf adds at the time.
Anyone else name their forces?

I did that for my Dwarf Army way back when as a joke. My friend, an undead player, had teased me that I'd named my Lords and Heros. So the next game I showed up every dude had a name with a drawing so as each one died I could tell him who he had so shamefully murdered. It got a few laughs, although I gave up on it after the first half dozen dudes.

But I think my whole dwarf army back then was like 50 guys. So it wasn't too big of a deal.

**TheAvengingKnee**

My Imperial Knight army is all named. My Tyranid s Is named by the unit for the little guys for example one of my units of termagaunts is named Bob.

**Elbows**

For ease of use, I do name most of my character models, and I name most of my squads and vehicles. I generally keep the models using the same traits, gear, etc. so it makes it easy to assemble armies from pre-calculated squads (gasp- without a program!).

Now, only a handful have done enough to the point where my friends actually remember their names, etc.

**JNAProductions**

My Daemon Princes all have names.

There's George, Daemon Prince of Nurgle. The story behind that is that I asked my friend "What should I call this guy?" and he said George. I said "I'm not calling George that!", realized what I'd just said, and it stuck.

My next two are Morgy and Archy-built from Morghast Archai, which is how they got their names.

And my last one is New Guy. For obvious reasons.

**Cynista**

The First model I ever put together was a Necron Warrior. I glued his chin to his neck by Accident. He therefore became Chin Cron, the secret Warlord of my entire army.

Other notable members of my force include Old Cron and No Head Cron.

I recently coverted a Destroyer Lord from a Wraith body and so was born Lord Snek Cron

As you can tell, I'm a fairly literal thinker

**Racerguy180**

I had my Squat biker gang named with a list of crimes they had committed.

couldnt tell ya what they were named tho, I do hope I come across my fluff for that army at some point. I know i still have it but where, anyone knows.

Since coming back I've only named a few models after they've done something valorous or noble.

Salamanders Relic Contemptor: The dreadnought is named Vulkans Will and it's current occupant is Pyr-shen from the Jeweled city of Hesiod. He turned the tide against Nurgle Daemons in the battle of Besol Pass. but succumbed to his wounds due to a demon exploding during its death-throes.

Skitarii Ranger: 2nd Plasma Ranger [He] 2s2. The only surviving member of his Maniple, they were able to fell a Drukhari Raider with a well placed shot. Killing the Archon and warlord of the raiding party.

Salamanders Capt.on Bike: The deeds of Ich'abod Ashen are wrote in ceramite on Prometheus for all Salamanders to see.
Bravely, in the midst of a pitched battle, defeated a renegade Knight saving the local populace from certain damnation at the hand of the arch enemy.

**wuestenfux**

Never thought about this - giving each model a name.
I could do this for the tanks, the HQs and the squad leaders but otherwise? Hell, no!

**Ratius**

My 3 IKs are named as are two of my SW blood claws.
A smattering of Tyranid models and of course their leader Hissy (with sisters Sissy and Missy).

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**Excommunicatus**

My KoS is called The Violet Heart, my Heralds are called things like Sasha Aleksandrovna and Katya Viktorovna, I'm calling Syll'Esske 'The Bogatyr', my Renegades are led by Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko and, inter alia, I have a Vindicare called Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko.

Naming each individual mini is right out, though. I have a single Ryadovoy (Private) named Leonid Aleksandrovich Komarov, but otherwise only CHARACTER models or Squad Leaders get names.

**vipoid**

I don't know if it counts but a while back I started working on a Hydra-themed IG army, with various HQs and Elites representing members of that organisation from the films and comics.

For my other armies:

wuestenfux wrote:
I could do this for the tanks, the HQs and the squad leaders but otherwise? Hell, no!

Basically this.

I like the idea of naming characters, as it seems like it could help make me more invested and also less likely to continuously faff around with their wargear choices.

I could maybe see myself naming squad leaders (or other noteworthy models) or giving each squad a name. However, I wouldn't want to name each individual soldier in my army.

**Tyranid Horde**

My Eldar characters, tanks and aspect shrines have names as they're part of the lore of my Craftworld. Same applies to my Dark Eldar but I don't have enough of those to really need to name them.

My Tyranids have silly names attached to notable models like Phil and Bill the Carnifexes. I couldn't name every model I ever own!

**Stormonu**

When I as doing an escalation league, I named a handful of my Tyranids.

My initial Tervigon received the name “Big Momma”, my Carnifex is “George” (as in “I will love him and squeeze him and call him George” - though he’s the one doing the squeezing). I named my termagants Alpha, Blue, Charlie, etc. My zoanthropes are named Pinky, Brian (not Brain...) and Chuck.

**SHUPPET**

I play Tyranids so naming them beyond a Hive Fleet defeats their identity and imo the point of the faction.

I'll probably name my Marine army though, at least on a squad and character level.

**AnomanderRake**

I've given models names before but most of them don't stick. Only one I remember off the top of my head is Brother Heinrich, a Deathwatch (Black Templar) sniper-specialist Intercessor out of my Kill-Team warband.

I feel like my Acheron should have an iteration counter rather than a name given that it dies every game and usually explodes, so the Tech-Priests need to rebuild it afterwards. Kappa-mu-kappa-zeta designate-046 or some such.

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SHUPPET wrote:
I play Tyranids so naming them beyond a Hive Fleet defeats their identity and imo the point of the faction...

It should be your opponents' responsibility to name your Tyranids. Old One-Eye doesn't call itself Old One-Eye, the people who have encountered it and survived call it that.

**Lord Blackscale**

My CSM have each squad and Squad leader named. Beyond that, I couldn't be bothered. My knights don't have names as they are just for 'lookin at' as my nephew says.

**SHUPPET**

AnomanderRake wrote:
I've given models names before but most of them don't stick. Only one I remember off the top of my head is Brother Heinrich, a Deathwatch (Black Templar) sniper-specialist Intercessor out of my Kill-Team warband.

I feel like my Acheron should have an iteration counter rather than a name given that it dies every game and usually explodes, so the Tech-Priests need to rebuild it afterwards. Kappa-mu-kappa-zeta designate-046 or some such.

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SHUPPET wrote:
I play Tyranids so naming them beyond a Hive Fleet defeats their identity and imo the point of the faction...

It should be your opponents' responsibility to name your Tyranids. Old One-Eye doesn't call itself Old One-Eye, the people who have encountered it and survived call it that.

You're absolutely right!

**Ancestral Hamster**

Character models yes, sometimes even down to squad leaders. Once I named every figure in a 30 figure platoon after various Military Sci-fi authors. Am now playing Kill Team: since there are only a few figures it isn't hard to name them all. My Deathwatch only has 15 figures and so they are all named. Just started AdMech and am naming them after computer languages and when they were created, thus COBOL-1959 and Pascal-1989. (Wikipedia is useful for that!)

Three figures have become famous (or infamous) depending on perspective. Umbra Kinslayer, my Dark Elf general, Blood Angels Scout Sgt. Invictus, and Necron Overlord Chumbawumba. Both the Sgt and the Necron Overlord are notoriously hard to kill, and in the case of Chumbawumba, as per the song by the band of the same name, "he gets knocked down, he gets up again, ain't nothing going to keep him down." Umbra Kinslayer is just very bloody-handed in games.

**Saturmorn Carvilli**

I have named most of my models. As my collection increases, so does the ratio of unnamed models though. I can remember most of the HQ names as well as some of my stand out Kill Team members if I play the same faction for a while. But for the most part I have to refer to my Dakkadakka articles I keep in my signature to remember the rest of the names.

My HQ units are basically named characters to me now with their own background lore and personality. I never refer to my Chaos Lord as anything other as Lord Galvanius. I also never change his Warlord Trait (Unholy Fortitude) and he always carries Ruination (Murder Sword relic).

**Coolyo294**

All of the characters and dreadnoughts in my Iron Warriors have their names written on the rim of their bases. They're all named after Spartan kings or other ancient Greek historical figures.

**Arcanis161**

I've named my painted characters. So far I have Company Commander Montefeltro and a Tempestor Prime named Col. Sam "Solid Snake" Fisher.

**vipoid**

AnomanderRake wrote:

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SHUPPET wrote:
I play Tyranids so naming them beyond a Hive Fleet defeats their identity and imo the point of the faction...

It should be your opponents' responsibility to name your Tyranids. Old One-Eye doesn't call itself Old One-Eye, the people who have encountered it and survived call it that.

I like the idea of other players in a group naming your tyranids and seeing which names stick.

**Sgt. Cortez**

My Chaos Lord is Anthraxas, Harbinger of Nurgle
My Daemon Prince is called Alvi Inkontinezius (a friend of mine called him that and I liked that name)
One Chaos Spawn I just called Ronny. Don't ask why.
The Plague Hulk is Fatty
The Great Unclean One is Diggy (so... Bulky One in english I guess...), but in my background lore he's Blurbaghast

Then there are merely speaking names, like Gribbly for the Chaos spawn with many tentacles. Or Glockenklaus (Bell Klaus) for a Blightbringer. Kotzer (vomiting guy) for one of my herolds for... obvious reasons.

For line troopers I'd only use names if I'd use them in Kill Team.

**Ancestral Hamster**

Naming Resources.

Fantasy Name Generators Has many different ones, including W40k and WHFB. Also has real world name generators which could work for Guard characters, and also for certain Marine chapters (i.e Space Wolves, Celestial Lions).

Behind the Name Various real world names and meanings.

In the past, I've occasionally just used a telephone book and then shifted first and last names up or down a few lines.

**Nightlord1987**

Ive developed the names of the warband/chapter/tribes of my armies, but it rarely comes up in actual gaming conversation.

I have the Smothered Hope warband of Nurgle.
The Pandemic Brotherhood warband of CSM.
The Desert Eagles chapter of Space Marines.
The Rusty Barrels gang, and the Boot Knives tribe of Orkz.

Actual models are just referred to as their entry. The Lord, the Prince, the Captain etc.

**BrianDavion**

I named my Primaris captain, Optimus.

**Wyldhunt**

Most of my characters have names, and I sometimes give names to especially lucky or cooling looking models or to models that get lore tied to one of the named characters.

I stopped giving every single model a name once they'd been blasted off the table a few too many times. It's harder to have a meaningful story for guardian defender Steve when that story has to include several dozen different times he "barely survived" a round of combat with a daemon prince or a hit from a battlecannon or whatever.

**Xenomancers**

Ehhh - to give them personality is one thing.

Often If I am using a Knight Galliant - I'll call him Gallantius. Plus a lot of times I'll call my buddies Custode jetbiker Captain (old forge world version) "Captain cock". Naming all the dudes in your army is kinda lame IMO. However I would totally go on with it. I would specficially call out my shots. "This shot is going at jim - and this one melvin"...and "can you remove melvin please? That is who I was aiming at" lol.

**ccs**

I have a few models/units scattered through my armies with individual (non-GW) names.

But I largely prefer that my armies represent anonymous warriors. Because in the grim future where there's only war? Nobody gives a gak what you're name is - unless you accomplish something truly spectacular.
And in almost 30 years of playing GW games I've rarely seen that actually occur on the table top. So there's very few models/units in my armies who've earned names.