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Hey everyone, so I'd like to pick up some AdMech, specifically 3 Onager Dunecrawlers and 3 Skorpius tanks. I like to name a lot of stuff, including vehicles, but I can't quite come up with any good ones for these. If you have named AdMech vehicles what are your suggestions on coming up with good names? Thanks for the help!

its admech... seems like bianary would be a good idea, might i suggest 100101, 011010, 111011, 001010, 110011, and 001100

Hexadecimal works as well. Basically anything that sounds esoteric and scientific works.

My Admech/Knight force follows the Metalica doctrine so I have various HQ, troops & vehicles named after Metallica songs/band members. My Knight Castellan is named Call of Ktulu piloted by Duke Mustaine and my Magos is named Scrutineer Principalis Hetfeldus. One of my Onagers is named Cunning Stunts.

Get creative, look at alchemy terms, periodic table, etc.

Some of the black library books use sequences of Greek letters combined with numbers for some Skitarii admech names.
For example: "Rho-mu 31" occurs in "Mechanicum" by Graham McNeill.
I believe there are other examples of this sort across several of the novels.
Hope this is useful.

Fluff-wise, do the Admech care about other machines beyond themselves?

Naming a vehicle is often done for self-pride or to help "humanize" the machine so that people/mechanics/crew are more kind with it (developing that man:machine relationship). If Admech, fluff-wise don't care...then naming them wouldn't be realistic. You could number them, or give them insignia to stand them apart, but I'd look into the fluff first.

They obviously respect Knights and Titans, but does any of that filter down to lowlier machines?

Would an Admech crew have any attachment to an Onager? If an Imperial Guard crew took heavy damage in a Russ but it had been with them for eight deployments, etc...they'd probably drag it back to the shop and spend hours fixing a nearly unfixable Russ. Would an Admech do the same, or simply do the math and decide it was 72% inoperable and thus no longer worth preserving, and move onto another Onager?

I don't know jack gak about Admech with the exception of some HH novels, so no idea.

Given their normal naming for squads it's like {Greek Letter}-{numeric designation} and then maybe something resembling an actual name.

So likely something along those lines. Maybe two.

Epsilon-Omega-D0571

or something.

 G00fySmiley wrote:
its admech... seems like bianary would be a good idea, might i suggest 100101, 011010, 111011, 001010, 110011, and 001100

 G00fySmiley wrote:
its admech... seems like bianary would be a good idea, might i suggest 100101, 011010, 111011, 001010, 110011, and 001100

And then, for Dark Admech - sometimes you use a *2*.

Dovah53 wrote:
Hey everyone, so I'd like to pick up some AdMech, specifically 3 Onager Dunecrawlers and 3 Skorpius tanks. I like to name a lot of stuff, including vehicles, but I can't quite come up with any good ones for these. If you have named AdMech vehicles what are your suggestions on coming up with good names? Thanks for the help!

I'd go with a serial number, or some kind of tactical marking code. The AdMech don't seem to me to be people who would give each tank a name.

In WWII, the Germans used a 3 digit system to identify their tanks. Tank 123 would be Tank 3, 2nd Platoon, 1st Company. The British had a system of colored shapes: Red, Yellow or Blue indicated the company, Diamond indicated the command tank, and Square, Circle, and Triangle indicated the squadron. The Soviets also had a system of numbers. Today, we use the rotating arrow-and-dots system. The direction of the arrow indicates the company, the number of dots within it indicates the platoon.

 Elbows wrote:
Fluff-wise, do the Admech care about other machines beyond themselves?

Naming a vehicle is often done for self-pride or to help "humanize" the machine so that people/mechanics/crew are more kind with it (developing that man:machine relationship). If Admech, fluff-wise don't care...then naming them wouldn't be realistic. You could number them, or give them insignia to stand them apart, but I'd look into the fluff first.

They obviously respect Knights and Titans, but does any of that filter down to lowlier machines?

Would an Admech crew have any attachment to an Onager? If an Imperial Guard crew took heavy damage in a Russ but it had been with them for eight deployments, etc...they'd probably drag it back to the shop and spend hours fixing a nearly unfixable Russ. Would an Admech do the same, or simply do the math and decide it was 72% inoperable and thus no longer worth preserving, and move onto another Onager?

I don't know jack gak about Admech with the exception of some HH novels, so no idea.

I asked myself that question too (because I don't know gak about AdMech either) and I feel like they would because isn't that basically their whole thing? They literally worship machines. I feel like every calculator to them is sacred, and we're talking about tanks and combat walkers. And don't they have to recite a bunch of prayers to the machine spirits of these things before they enter battle too? By the way this is directed at anybody else who's reading too because I'm not sure and I'd like to know more. SO, I really feel like they would care enough about these to name them, probably even more so than the Imperial Guard or Space Marines.

I like the GW system as it has hints that it's part of a numbering system for things in the billions that is still human interface readable.

So compare the GW Admech system to what people have suggest with numbers.



Though in their case you'd replace using the longer words for using different number sets and languages.

So IV-Rho-Camphor-Shi is one in a billion Dunecrawlers, but you've got a very short number plate designation that can be shouted by a meat person down a vox.

Tastyfish wrote:

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