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2012/09/27 02:48:58
Subject: Re:An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
The Zzor Nightmares
The Mandibular Manglers
The Preying Mantics
The Zzoraks (! - Were they named after Zorak from Space
Ghost?!?! I now wonder...)
The Green Death
The Hybrid
The Striking Claws
The Bugz
The Biting Ballers
The Zzorian ZzoZzos
The Perfidious Pincers
The Monsterous Mandibles (/ Mantises) (*Note - Mantes, is swappable with Mantises for all of these as well)/
The Mighty Mantises (/ Mandibles)
The Murderous Mantises (/Mandibles)
The Swift Strikers
The Solid Skeletons
The Piercing Predators
The Predatory Pests
The Chittering Death
...
I'm out :/
2012/09/27 07:39:24
Subject: An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…then all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." Commander sinclair, Babylon 5.
Bobtheinquisitor wrote:what is going on with APAC shipping? If Macross Island were real, they'd be the last place to get any Robotechnology.
2012/09/27 11:31:17
Subject: An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
2012/09/28 04:57:35
Subject: An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
Even though they are supposedly Corp-grown, I'd think the Corporation would want them to have that 'alien' feel to the fans, so they would probably name them after one of the cities (or something that sounds like it) on the Zz'or homeworld:
Zz'ortex Swarm
Zr'ix Hivelords
Zz'orch'a Crushers
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2012/09/28 23:34:07
Subject: An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
The Outer Rim Dreadwings (Washington Redskins, NFL)
As an insectoid species, I picture them with vestigial wings hidden under their carapaces that they extend for celebratory, dominatory droning when they score a point, thwack an opposing player in the nadgers, etc.
It fits in with the NFL names of the existing four, sets the Z'zor up as the bad guys without being heavy-handed about the propaganda, and is deliberately vague about the location of the menace (allowing the eventual conquest to spread to encompass whichever nearby star systems beg most for the plucking). Hmm, the Outer Rim Hardskins? The Outer Rim Bug-Things?
Heh, if the bugs were captured from a planet called Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Dismemberment would be hilarious. Oh, and someone please tell me there's a sports team from Philly called the Philadelphia Experiment. On a related note, if they were captured from a planet called Minnesota, the Minnesota Swarm (NLL) would be perfect. Hmm, what's a suitable name for a planet that sounds similar to Minnesota? The Mygdonia Swarm? The Montauk-Σ Swarm?
Similarly for a planet called Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Bugs (Milwaukee Bucks, NBA). The Montauk-D Bugs? The Montauk-3 Bugs?
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2012/09/29 01:09:56
Subject: An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
The Trontek 29ers (San Francisco 49ers, NFL)
The Greenmoon Smackers (Green Bay Packers, NFL)
The Midgard Delvers (Oakland Raiders, NFL?)
The Skittersneak Stealers (Pittsburgh Steelers, NFL)
__________
Random thought: someone needs to do a custom Corporation team of guys seconded from units currently fighting the Z'zor in *cough* police actions *cough* and call them the Klendathu Roughnecks (Calgary Roughnecks, NLL).
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2012/09/29 03:44:18
Subject: An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
Construct wrote: Heh, if the bugs were captured from a planet called Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Dismemberment would be hilarious. Oh, and someone please tell me there's a sports team from Philly called the Philadelphia Experiment.
Yeah, the Dismemberment is a reverse homage to the soccer team, The Philadelphia Union.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The Baltimorse Ravenous(The Baltimore Ravens)
The Dallas Cowgirls
Z'zortech Xenos
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2012/09/29 04:15:57
Subject: An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
bbb wrote: Yeah, the Dismemberment is a reverse homage to the soccer team, The Philadelphia Union.
Brilliant! It works on two levels.
The Dallas Cowgirls
It's a shame we can't officially make suggestions for the female Corporation team yet but, dammit, this is too much fun! The Pallas Corp-Girls? The Pallas Powergirls? Grrls? Base them on a planet called Pallas after the titan Pallas and/or the goddess Pallas Athena. On second thought, make Athena the planet and Pallas one of the moons, that way the team can have a secret military base ON THE MOON.
2012/09/29 04:29:40
Subject: Re:An ultra-quick Mantic Dreadball Dakka team naming contest! Ends 11:59pm GMT Sat 9/29
THE FUN HAS BEEN DOUBLED!!! 
