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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 12:32:01
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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Greetings! T'au vehicles are (from the imperial vantage point, of course) named after fish and other marine animals. I've been making some concepts that i want to expand on, and need cool names of fish (or other marine animals) that i could use for them. I'd welcome suggestions, and would especially like names that do not end in -fish, as that gets repetitive after a while. Bonus points for animals with a weird gimmick that could be used as a hook for a concept.
So far i have the following on a shortlist:
- Thresher (shark, with a very long tail fin which it is known to flail around violently when caught)
- Hagfish (looks like a worm, produces ridiculous amounts of slime)
- Stonefish (has potent poison [s]parps[/p] barbs, is usually concealed, regular cause of death for people that step on it)
- Krait (general name for a 'type' of snake, acquatic variants exist and are very venomous)
- Scorpionfish (another one with poison barbs, name already used for a missile variant of the Orca, which never got a model)
- Moray (eel-like, ferocious, name already used for a Manta-like gunship, which never got a model)
- Lungfish (more like a joke, has lungs)
- Pike (pretty ordinary, but sounds metal)
- Grouper (also pretty ordinary, but sounds like something you'd name an ugly tank after)
So, what have you got?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 12:49:56
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Calculating Commissar
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Pike are awesome! They are vicious predators and would suit a fighter or roaming hunter-killer vehicle (a Tau equivalent to an attack helicopter maybe).
Anyway.
I think Anglerfish for some kind of recovery vehicle or lure vehicle would be interesting.
Could also have Sleeper shark for an ambush vehicle.
Minnow could be a cool name for some kind of massed loitering munition (a bit like the Remora).
I also think Trout would be funny, but can't think of a good reason to call something that... maybe a vehicle that switches mode in some way? Most Trout and Salmon swap between fresh and salt water.
Mako or Marlin would be good for a very fast vehicle, like a fighter jet to support the Barracuda.
Stickleback would be an interesting name for a vehicle with a counter-assault role- designed to fly in and break up enemy charges. Could maybe have a more powerful, more aggressive version of the grav disrupter drone that Pathfinder units can take.
Roach and Carp feel like they could be used for... something.
Edit:
Ooh Leatherback would be a good name for a big shield generator vehicle that acts as a mobile defensive installation. It could sit in the middle of a formation of other vehicles like Devilfish to protect them from incoming fire.
Seeing as Orca has set precedent for aquatic mammals, Porpoise seems like a good name for something. Narwhal too- could be a boarding craft designed to allow ingress into abandoned or hostile vessels.
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This message was edited 6 times. Last update was at 2023/07/06 13:06:52
ChargerIIC wrote:If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 13:11:13
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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Haighus wrote:Pike are awesome!
Anyway.
I think Anglerfish for some kind of recovery vehicle or lure vehicle would be interesting.
Could also have Sleeper shark for an ambush vehicle.
Minnow could be a cool name for some kind of massed loitering munition (a bit like the Remora).
I also think Trout would be funny, but can't think of a good reason to call something that... maybe a vehicle that switches mode in some way? Most Trout and Salmon swap between fresh and salt water.
Mako or Marlin would be good for a very fast vehicle, like a fighter jet to support the Barracuda.
Stickleback would be an interesting name for a vehicle with a counter-assault role- designed to fly in and break up enemy charges. Could maybe have a more powerful, more aggressive version of the grav disrupter drone that Pathfinder units can take.
Roach and Carp feel like they could be used for... something.
Thanks, that's a lot of awesome stuff.
FYI, the concepts that so far have found a name, or the names with a concept:
The Thresher is a ground attack aerial drone in the vain of the Remora, but more aerodynamic, armed with rail-rifle arrays and intended to do high-speed suppression and attack runs against transport columns or heavy infantry.
The Stonefish is a special forces insertion gunship in the vein of a Corvus Blackstar, able to insert a team or Breachers and a drone squadron into critical positions while suppressing resistance with submunition launchers and rocket pods.
The Hagfish is an experimental testbed / squadron support vehicle using forcefield technology partly reverse-engineered from Orks and including stuff from other client races to project shield- and ECM-like effects around tank squadrons, so far with unstable results.
Other concepts include a theatre command vehicle with AWACS-like capabilities that includes some sort of local skynet to link up various drones present on the battlefield, a stealth-insert deep recon drone intended to work in swarms and something to take on superheavies when no air caste support is available that's only in the roughest stages for now...
And someday i'll have to sketch all that...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 13:16:21
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Calculating Commissar
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Nice! If you want to avoid -fish, maybe Lamprey would be a good alternative to Hagfish? They are visually similar, although I don't think lampreys produce as much slime.
Also, I added some more after you hit the quote button.
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ChargerIIC wrote:If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 13:32:30
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Rogue Daemonhunter fueled by Chaos
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You can always look at the names of the US Gato and Baleo class submarines. They were all named after fish or marine creatures. some particularly interesting options:
Darter
Finback
Silversides
Muskellunge
Steelhead
Eel
turbot
Bullhead
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 13:32:38
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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Haighus wrote:Nice! If you want to avoid -fish, maybe Lamprey would be a good alternative to Hagfish? They are visually similar, although I don't think lampreys produce as much slime.
Also, I added some more after you hit the quote button.
Thanks again.
Some concept art from around the net to show the general shape of thing i'm going after.
Thresher:
Same general shape, a little bit flatter, with three railrifles integrated into the wings on each side (ww2 fighter plane style), the sensorium in front will be a thingy that will be shared among this generation of drones as visual cue.
Stonefish:
This, with more T'au visuals. Special forces team deploys from hatch under the main body, the drone squads deploy from the back (where this has the missile ports) to swoop over the nose and secure landing area beforehand. Instead of gatling guns, submunition launchers to lay down suppressing fire.
The Hagfish will probably be on an reduced-armour Orca hull, with a bulbuous and outlandish shape for the generator.
The general gist of all of this is that the T'au get more and more pressed by enemies on all fronts, and are thus getting more reliant on mass-produced drone variants that encroach on traditional warrior caste roles on one hand, and on experimental and reverse-engineered stuff that they take from their enemies and client races on the other, both with potentially desastrous consequences in the long run as they're increasingly dealing with technology they do not fully understand and coming dangerously close to sentient AI.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 13:34:01
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Calculating Commissar
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On further consideration, Sleepershark would be a good variant of the Tigershark that sacrifices firepower for ECM capability. Optimise it to operate in a wild weasel role and use it to disable enemy air defenses to allow the Tigersharks unimpeded attack runs on the high-value enemy super-heavies. Automatically Appended Next Post: Polonius wrote:You can always look at the names of the US Gato and Baleo class submarines. They were all named after fish or marine creatures. some particularly interesting options:
Darter
Finback
Silversides
Muskellunge
Steelhead
Eel
turbot
Bullhead
I really want to see a Tau vehicle called Muskellunge now...
Alas, I doubt it will happen.
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ChargerIIC wrote:If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 14:15:15
Subject: Re:Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Automated Rubric Marine of Tzeentch
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Catfish- EW/deception vehicle
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 22:27:14
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Perfect Shot Black Templar Predator Pilot
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Wow this is pretty sweet. Though you don't have Swordfish? But Pikes are metal, I kept one for a short time because I just didn't have the space for it, thos teef.
Hammerhead shark?
Tiger Musky
Tiger Barb
Bullhead (Catfish)
Rasbora
Flying Fox
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/06 23:19:01
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Calculating Commissar
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ChargerIIC wrote:If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/08 00:32:48
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Polonius wrote:You can always look at the names of the US Gato and Baleo class submarines. They were all named after fish or marine creatures. some particularly interesting options:
Darter
Finback
Silversides
Muskellunge
Steelhead
Eel
turbot
Bullhead
Except these names were picked for morale, something that sounded cool for officers naming them. When you name enemy vehicles, though, you mostly go opposite way, and pick ugly/demeaning/insulting names. Something like leech, mudskipper, blobfish, wolffish, with some of these funnily enough resembling Tau vehicle shape, too...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/08 00:38:31
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Preparing the Invasion of Terra
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Boney-eared-assfish. Make it unbearably overpowered but call it that to lure people into a false sense of security.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/08 06:55:31
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Battleship Captain
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Two tau vehicles which only ever existed in Epic were the Lionfish (a skyray like vehicle armed with submunition missiles for crowd control) and the Scorpionfish (a gunship rather than version of the Orca loaded with missile pods and seeker and tracer missiles).
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/14 21:07:17
Subject: Re:Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Stormin' Stompa
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Moray and stingray both sound rather sleek and deadly.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/17 02:47:51
Subject: Help me with cool fish names for T'au homebrew tanks and drones
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Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit
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The Beta because well….
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