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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #30 on: 21 July 2011, 07:53:40 »
The new TO&E as far as I have it right now:
Character or player name    Callsign    Unit name       Model
   
Command lance (Vampires)   

Col. Lance  vamp 1               Independence   custom
Jimmy   vamp 2    Custom
Jason  vamp 3          Marauder    MAD-3D
   
Scout lance (Spectre)   
 
Major Freddy   Spectre 1   Nightmare   NGM-A
Ben   Phoenix Hawk   PXH-1
William   Phoenix Hawk   PXH-1


aerospace assets:
Mule class dropship  (Zombie)


They have a PR person who doesn't go out on the contracts with them.  She'll be searching for new talent and further jobs for the unit. 


Quite a bit less, I know, but it's a game that's just started too. 
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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #31 on: 30 August 2011, 17:02:22 »
The game I just started has the PCs as member of a mercenary company called....

The Salamanders.

Here's their unit insignia:


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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #32 on: 30 August 2011, 22:47:51 »
If you think Logistics is boring you're not doing it right, it should be all about Con jobs, horse trading, Graft and Robberies, not paperwork and developing a swivel chair bottom waiting for the guy to show up to tell you that his truck was full when he left the central Q. deport.

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #33 on: 30 August 2011, 22:51:15 »
Think Quark or Nog from Star Trek DS9.  My wife is a huge fan and I recently saw an episode where Nog was logistically schlepping for the Chief.  LSS...massive trades make everything better and all concerned much happier.

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #34 on: 31 August 2011, 02:04:51 »
The Blue Wombats?  :D

Run now!!!  :o While you still can.....

Smith's Strikers
King's Killers
Costello's Calvary
Miller's Minutemen

One of the tech-adept folks here should come up with a "Random Merc Name Generator"  ???
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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #35 on: 31 August 2011, 08:43:37 »
One of the tech-adept folks here should come up with a "Random Merc Name Generator"  ???

I'm imagining something similar to what the DoD uses to pick operational names. 

"Look!  Here comes our saviors!  It's the mercenaries our Lord hired to protect us!  The Market Garden!!!!"

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #36 on: 03 September 2011, 21:12:15 »
The Blue Wombats?  :D

Unit names should have a certain flow. Take the COs last name and find a noun that starts with the same letter as the CO's last name....

Smith's Strikers
King's Killers
Costello's Calvary
Miller's Minutemen

Be very very carful when you utter the name Wombat  :-\

And so on....

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #37 on: 04 September 2011, 23:47:29 »
My wife is kicking around the idea of a raiding company called the Knockouts, apparently named after some flower, so yeah whoever wants to use that go for it.
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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #38 on: 07 September 2011, 22:51:03 »
You could always use the traditional Japanese method for coming up with a name.  This time honored method is apparent in their diverse and often time controversial anime.   :D

Just fill in one of the following Mad-Lib!

Adjective, Noun, Name (Japanese type name, or just another Noun)

You could come up with all sorts of fun Merc names like:
Blue Steel Warriors - Because blue is apparently the most popular Adjective in the Japanese anime culture!
OR
Dark Demon Alchemists - On second thought, we've heard enough of all three of those words  ::)
OR
Dragon Gangster Ichigo - Heck, just Dragon Gangster would be a cool Merc group.

You'd be like, "Hey there fellow Freebirth, do you has what it takes to be a DRAGON GANGSTER?"
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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #39 on: 08 September 2011, 13:02:55 »
My current Merc unit is called "Corvus' Last Chancers". The command lance is always referred to as "The Last Chance Lance" because if they can't do it, no other squad in the unit can.
Each subsequent unit is named 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on "Chance Lance".

I really want to make a force called "The Dapper Gents" or "Parental Advisory Recommended" just for the laughs lol

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #40 on: 08 September 2011, 23:48:31 »
One of the more memorable campaigns I was "Larry's Lynchmob".  CO rode a custom crusader without LRMS...had lots of MGs and Flamers.  We were all old tech so it was kinda fearsome.

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #41 on: 09 September 2011, 06:15:55 »
Once had a game where was merc units:

Karellian Tormentors
Aces of Blackest Spade - still operational, almost...
Spoon of Wicked Cook  ;)

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #42 on: 09 September 2011, 06:31:05 »
"Sentinels" sounds like either Robotech II or the Star League 'Mech.

Then again, "Hussars" is used quite frequently in the BattleTech universe, even if the regiment in question doesn't field that Star League 'Mech.
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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #43 on: 11 September 2011, 01:08:01 »
The Book (which I find is hard to type and write from my 2nd Draft) Devulgence of Honour has the 1stGaledon Light Rangers.  They become known as the Snake Killers, then Black Mongoose!

In the 2nd book they defete the Douglas Dragoons and absorb them! 

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #44 on: 21 October 2011, 17:56:45 »
My unit's name:
Scott's Deviants

my friend's units are:
Budget Security

and

The Black Eagles

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #45 on: 21 October 2011, 23:15:58 »
Sounds like your group is having fun Phacade!

It took me, off and on, ten years or so to finally settle on a logo and name for my merc regiment.

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #46 on: 22 October 2011, 12:47:47 »
TROGDOR gets my vote for the win


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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #47 on: 24 October 2011, 04:14:11 »
One group with whom I game prefers esoteric names for their various organizations:

Ground Zero

Peking Orphans

MAUMAU (Mobile Assault Unit, Military Actions Unlimited)

Those Guys (Who destroyed the warship? Those Guys!)

Out of Time

Call Collect

Chosen Blades

Poontang Commandos

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #48 on: 04 November 2011, 23:02:45 »
The Dogs of War


Spaikov's Cossacks LCT (SIMC/CCAF)

Speight's Ulhans LCT (LAAF)

Spaight's Cuirassars LCT (AFFS)

Spaak's Drakons (FRR)

Spaikov's Deaths Head Guards (DCMS)


The 2nd Kearny Highlanders' Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse Battalion (Lockhart's Scottish Horse) traces its history back to the Fife and Forfar Yeomenry/Scottish Horse Regiment of the British Army.
The battalion had originally been mustered as part of the planetary militia of Northwind, and was excited about the return of the Northwind Highlanders at the end of the Fourth Succession War, the combined armored and infantry unit was converted into a battlemech battalion to round out the 2nd Kearny Highlanders, bringing them up to a full strength battlemech regiment. For nearly a decade the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse Battalion remained on the planet Northwind acting as an aggressor unit against the Northwind Military Academy training  battalions, and other Northwind Highlander units.
Lieutenant Colonel Reagan Lockhart had rapidly risen through the ranks of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse battalion, and with the recommendations of the Commandant of the Northwind Military Academy she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and her new command was finally assigned as the third battalion that brought the line regiment up to full strength.   


Star Colonel <> Pryde, Command Star, 94th Striker Cluster 'Black Vision', Galaxy '<>', Clan Jade Falcon;
Star Colonel <> Pryde is a trueborn liberal Warden in a very conservative Crusader Clan. Her brilliant career testifies to her skills as a warrior and to her ability to remain aloof from Clan politics.
Star Colonel <> Pryde even-handed treatment of trueborn and freeborn alike has cost her a number of trueborn warriors who transferred to other units in disgust for not only the presence and treatment of all the freeborn warriors in the Unit, but also for the way her Warden political ideals has spread to the other warriors.

94th Striker Cluster 'Black Vision'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Pryde)
Alpha Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> Malthus)
Bravo Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> Pershaw)
Charlie Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> Horn)
Delta Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> Thastus)
Echo Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> von Binetti)


Star Colonel <> Winson, Command Star, 11th Battle Cluster 'The Bronze Lancers', Alpha Galaxy 'The Wolf Spirits', Clan Wolf (Crusader Wolves)
Star Colonel <> Winson is one of the few remaining Wardens in Khan Vladimir Ward's Crusader dominated Wolf Clan, and considering all of the Trails of Position she has won against Crusader warriors to maintain command of the 11th Battle Cluster is a testament to her skills in and out of the cockpit of her Dire Wolf assault omnimech.
11th Battle Cluster 'The Bronze Lancers'
Command Nova 'The Bronze Flags' (Star Colonel <> Winson)
Trinary Assault 'The Chargers' (Star Captain <> Ward)
Trinary Battle 'The Bronze Shields' (Star Captain <> Kerensky)
Trinary Striker 'The Bloody Lancers' (Star Captain <> McKibben)
Trinary Strider 'The Bronze Pikemen' (Star Captain <> Sradac)
Trinary Fighter 'The Thunder Eagles' (Star Captain <> Nygren)


Star Colonel Tatiana Kerensky, Command Star, 328th Assault Cluster 'The Lion-Hearted', Alpha Galaxy 'Dire Wolves', Clan Wolf-in-Exile
Star Colonel Tatiana Kerensky is one of the granddaughters of the infamous Wolf Khan Natasha Kerensky, aka 'the Black Widow'… she shares her forbearers bright red hair and temperament.

328th Assault Cluster "The Lion-Hearted"
Unit Name: 328th Assault Cluster
Unit Commander: Star Colonel Tatiana Kerensky
Unit Composition:
Unit Nickname: "The Lion-Hearted"
Unit Crest/Insignia: A golden lion's head (three quarter profile) with a scarlet heart between its teeth above the clusters number in gold.

328th Assault Cluster 'The Lion-Hearted' (Star Colonel Tatiana Kerensky)
Command Nova 'The Cold-Hearted' (Star Colonel Tatiana Kerensky)
Supernova Battle 'The Heart-Eaters' (Nova Captain <> Vickers)
Trinary Assault 'The Heart Stompers' (Star Captain <> Conners)
Binary Fighter 'The Flying Lions' (Star Captain <> Rhayde)
Binary Rouge 'The Roaming Lions' (Star Captain <> Senders)
Binary Artillery 'The Lion's Roar' (Star Captain <> Sherbow)


Star Colonel <> Devereaux, Command Star, Nova Cat Uhlans Cluster '<>', Galaxy '<>', Clan Nova Cat
Nova Cat Uhlans Cluster '<>'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Devereaux)
Trinary Assault '<>' (Star Captain <> Rosse)
Trinary Battle '<>' (Star Captain <> Leroux)
Trinary Striker '<>' (Star Captain <> Bauer)
Trinary Strider '<>' (Star Captain <> West)
Trinary Fighter '<>' (Star Captain <> Fokker



Star Colonel <> Schmitt, Command Star, 13th Crimson Cuirassiers Cluster 'Kerensky's Bloody Thirteenth', Omega Galaxy 'The Sanguine Reavers', Clan Blood Spirit Touman, Clan Blood Spirit;

13th Crimson Cuirassiers Cluster 'Kerensky's Bloody Thirteenth'
Command Star (Star Colonel <> Schmitt)
Assault Battlemech Trinary 'Kerensky's Bloody Boot-heel' (Star Captain <>)
Battle Battlemech Trinary 'Kerensky's Black Watch' (Star Captain <> Campbell)
Striker Battlemech Trinary 'Kerensky's Lancers' (Star Captain <> Church)
Elemental Trinary 'Kerensky's Stormtroopers' (Star Captain <> Pitcher)
Protomech Trinary 'Kerensky's <>' (Star Captain <> McFadden)


Star Colonel <> Crow, Command Star, 4th Cobra Guards Cluster 'The Sapphire Guard', Beta Galaxy 'Scourge of the Pentagon', Clan Cloud Cobra
4th Cobra Guards Cluster 'The Sapphire Guard'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Crow)
Trinary Assault '<>' (Star Captain <> Khatib)
Trinary Battle '<>' (Star Captain <> Telinov)
Trinary Striker '<>' (Star Captain <> Lienet)
Trinary Strider '<>' (Star Captain <> Mannix)
Trinary Fighter '<>' (Star Captain <> Spaatz)


Star Colonel <> Tchernovkov, Command Star, 20th Battle Cluster 'Coyotes', Alpha Galaxy 'Spirit of the Coyote', Clan Coyote
20th Battle Cluster 'Coyotes'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Tchernovkov)
Trinary Assault '<>' (Star Captain <> Jerricho)
Trinary Battle '<>' (Star Captain <> Clearwater)
Trinary Striker '<>' (Star Captain <> Hoffman)
Trinary Strider '<>' (Star Captain <> Heller)
Trinary Fighter '<>' (Star Captain <> McTighe)



Star Colonel <> Crow, Command Star, 4th Cobra Guards Cluster 'The Sapphire Guard', Beta Galaxy 'Scourge of the Pentagon', Clan Cloud Cobra
4th Cobra Guards Cluster 'The Sapphire Guard'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Crow)
Trinary Assault '<>' (Star Captain <> Khatib)
Trinary Battle '<>' (Star Captain <> Telinov)
Trinary Striker '<>' (Star Captain <> Lienet)
Trinary Strider '<>' (Star Captain <> Mannix)
Trinary Fighter '<>' (Star Captain <> Spaatz)


Star Colonel <> Tchernovkov, Command Star, 20th Battle Cluster 'Coyotes', Alpha Galaxy 'Spirit of the Coyote', Clan Coyote

20th Battle Cluster 'Coyotes'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Tchernovkov)
Trinary Assault '<>' (Star Captain <> Jerricho)
Trinary Battle '<>' (Star Captain <> Clearwater)
Trinary Striker '<>' (Star Captain <> Hoffman)
Trinary Strider '<>' (Star Captain <> Heller)
Trinary Fighter '<>' (Star Captain <> McTighe)




Star Colonel <> Clarke, Command Star, 3rd Strike Cluster '<Foxes>', Sigma Galaxy 'Fox's Whelps', Clan Diamond Shark / Sea Fox
3rd Strike Cluster '<Foxes>'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Clarke)
Trinary Assault '<>' (Star Captain <> Rodriguez)
Trinary Battle '<>' (Star Captain <> Faulk)
Trinary First Striker 'First Called' (Star Captain <> Hammond)
Trinary Secondary Strider 'Second to None' (Star Captain <> Coston)
Trinary Fighter 'Clean Sweep' (Star Captain <> Sutherland)

The Second Jaguar Cavaliers Cluster found themselves boundsmen to an Innersphere unit who chose to work at intergrating the Inner Spehere and Clansways of doing things together as a single unified whole... in fact Clans Ghost Bear, Clan Nova Cats, Snow Raven and the Wolves-in-exile some of the kinds of things that would be best to avoid. 
Star Colonel <> Corbett, Command Star, 2nd Jaguar Cavaliers Cluster '<>', Delta Galaxy 'The Cloud Rangers', Clan Smoke Jaguar

2nd Jaguar Cavaliers Cluster '<>'Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Corbett)
Assault Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> Moon)
Battle Trinary Able '<>' (Star Captain <> Osis)
Battle Trinary Bravo '<>' (Star Captain <> Prentice)
Striker Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> Showers)
Elemental Strider Trinary '<>' (Star Captain <> Hoyt)


Star Colonel <> Payne, Command Star, 53rd Assault Cluster 'The Stalwarts', Alpha Galaxy 'The Battle-Hardened', Clan Fire Mandrill
Star Colonel <> Payne
Star Colonel <> Payne bares an eerie resemblance to the founding Khan Laura Payne.
The <> Cluster was an experiment by Khan Garret Sainze and saKhan Amanda Carrol to prove that their clan could come together as a single unified Clan. Unfortunately, it came a little too late… and Clan Fire Mandrill found itself the target of the other clans.

Star Colonel <> Payne was given orders to make sure that Clan Fire Mandrill would survive anything that happened, and created a back-up genetic depository that contained all of their genetic legacies that was placed inside the warship that had been assigned to support the Cluster.

The Cluster paint scheme is brick red with highlights and trim done with a mix of yellow, orange & black. 

53rd Assault Cluster 'The Stalwarts'
Command Star 'The Stalwart of the Stalwarts' (Star Colonel <> Payne)
Trinary Assault 'Strong and Sturdy' (Star Captain <> Sainze)
Trinary Battle 'Resolute' (Star Captain <> Kline)
Trinary Striker 'Dependable' (Star Captain <> Jewel)
Trinary Strider 'Robust' (Star Captain <> Goulet)
Trinary Fighter 'Courageous' (Star Captain <> Beyl)


The 13th Crimson Cuirassiers Cluster 'Kerensky's Bloody Thirteenth' was an experiment undertaken by the Touman of Clan Blood Spirit, namely the replacement of the Armored Combat Vehicle Trinary with a Trinary of Protomechs. The 13th Crimson Cuirassiers Cluster is a unit that would end up being composed of many of the Wardens that existed in the Crusader Clan as well as possessing a healthy number of freebirth warriors within their ranks.

The 13th Crimson Cuirassiers Cluster uses a bright white and red paint scheme with red and black checkers. A dark gray is used for the center torso of 'Mechs, protomechs and elementals.

Insignia: The unit insignia is the number '13' in Gold that is superimposed over a Crimson Cameron Dagger-star.

13th Crimson Curissar Cluster '<>', Alpha Galaxy '<>'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Jorgensson)
Trinary Assault '<>' (Star Captain <> Tseng)
Trinary Battle '<>' (Star Captain <> Bekker)
Trinary Striker '<>' (Star Captain <> Hall)
Trinary Strider '<>' (Star Captain <> Kabrinski)
Trinary Fighter '<>' (Star Captain <> Bourjon)


Star Colonel <> Cobb, Command Star, 111th Mechanized Cavalry Cluster 'Kerensky's Roughriders', Gamma Galaxy 'The Blood Riders', Clan Hell's Horses

111th Mechanized Cavalry Cluster 'Kerensky's Roughriders'
Command Star '<>' (Star Colonel <> Cobb)
Trinary Able '<>' (Star Captain <> Ravenwater)
Trinary Bravo '<>' (Star Captain <> Mitchell)
Trinary Charlie '<>' (Star Captain <> Amirault)
Trinary Strider '<>' (Star Captain <> Fletcher) Elemental Trinary
Trinary Fighter '<>' (Star Captain <> Dudzinsky) aerospace omni-fighter Trinary

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #49 on: 05 November 2011, 04:17:41 »
Mmm I created Wallen's Warriors, a disaffected bunch of mercs who worked for ComStar, and bailed after they were told that their services were no longer needed. Their history isn't really storied, and aside from being on Tukayyid during the Trial for Terra and Outreach during the Word's Assault, they've worked in out of the way places. And I have a full Roster, but I'm too lazy to post it :D
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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #50 on: 12 November 2011, 19:08:33 »
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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #51 on: 16 November 2011, 02:25:44 »
The Desperate Desperados!

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Re: Merc Unit names?
« Reply #52 on: 20 November 2011, 10:48:57 »
Going with the ugly side of mercenary mindset...

Bloodthirsty Capitalists
C-Bill Liberators
The Bottom Line
Bloody Bankers
Fortunes of War
Free-Market Homicide Company
Price of Loyalty
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