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Besides slapping on archetypal GI Joe style codenames onto your Kill Team members, do you create real names and stories for your team of special operatives?

That usually only happens if I happen to play with any given team for an extended period. Has only happened once so far

Only for campaign play. My first team has operative names painted on bases, but there's no use for them, really.

Depends on which team I'm playing as. My orks, deathguard, navy breachers etc are bad guys/expendables. My Karskin's and Tson's I probably should make names for. They're more likely to actually have stories.

Gobo, mokey, weembly, momo, red and the rest are Doozers.

Well, I refer to my Orks as: Burna, Rokkit, Snipa, Coms, Boss, Ram/Rambo/Ramboy, "The Grot", "The Squig/Dyno", Stabba, Dakka, & Boy #1/2/3

And I've labeled the bases of my Votaan as what's on their cards - Thane, Lugger, etc.- because both my most frequent opponents & I alike were having trouble telling the dwarves apart.

But none of my other teams have any sort of names so far.

I thought of naming my Ork Kommando unit after the characters from the Expendables films.

Mainly because Jason Statham's knife fighter Lee Christmas can be Orkified into a play on Grotmas.

I'm sure if I think hard enough or ask for assistance, we can figure out a couple Ork Kommando names from these fine actors.

The Expenda-Boyz

Bossy Rukk - Nob
Grotmass - Slasha Boy
Gunna Jagz’n - Kommando Boy
Yin Waaagh! - Kommando Boy
Tuff Road - Breacha Boy
'Eavy Caesar- Dakka Boy
Bullet da Yoof - Snipa Boy
Dokta Boom - Rokkit Boy
Grotaparte - Kommando Grot

Need Comms and Burna Boy


Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross
Jason Statham as Lee Christmas
Dolph Lundgren as Gunner Jensen
Randy Couture as Toll Road
Bruce Willis as Church
Wesley Snipes as Doc
Jet Li as Yin Yang
Liam Hemsworth as Billy the Kid
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Trench
Mel Gibson as Stonebanks
Antonio Banderas as Galgo
Mickey Rourke as Tool
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Vilain
Chuck Norris as Booker
Harrison Ford as Max Drummer
Kelsey Grammer as Bonaparte
Glen Powell as Thorn
Mel Gibson as Stonebanks

No, because they die too easy.

 Easy E wrote:
No, because they die too easy.

I haven't gone down this particular road yet, but it seems to me I would just name them by their speciality.

I did with my first team, and I also did for a short campaign.
When starting I had a sheet with these names and erasable markers to note equipment or wounds, but it turned out that using tokens on the board results in gamestates that are much clearer to read (who'd have thought!?)

In the campaign names didn't come up once. Communicating using them instead of operative types would be so counterproductive and confusing.

So in short, yes, I used to, but I might as well not as it helps nothing.

I see people add nameplates to their models.

I'm thinking of doing the same, but only what their specialty is.... especially if my opponent has trouble telling that the Burna Boy is the chap with the flamethrower.

I have seen that too, and I think there are games where that definitely works. Blood Bowl, Necromunda, etc.

However, for some reason I do not have the same connection with my Kill Team guys. Not really sure why. Maybe because I have played games where someone wins with 0 models left on the table. Kill Teams never really Bottle out, they fight their turning points no matter what. They just feel more like chess pieces than dudes to me.

Absolutely.

-STS

I intend to give names to my whole 40k imperial soup army of Sisters-Inquisition-Imperial Guard once I paint most of them, so yeah, my killteam operatives will definitely have names each.

I will have a harder time with operatives not from my 40k army though (aka not human), like Fellgor Ravagers or Vespids. The AI is generally very helpful with this sort of stuff if given proper instructions and asking for lots of iterations