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Title: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Lucika on February 08, 2011, 05:32:40 pm: "FreeSpace: The Great War

Volition used Indian culture gods to designate Shivan fighter wings and Zodiac signs to designate hostile Vasudan wings.

[...]

Underlined wing names were used in the Main FreeSpace Campaign. The other wing names are hints for mission designers."

Now, with that in mind, look at this:

# Durga
# Venkateshwara
# Satyanarayana
# Rama
# Krishna

Really? :lol:

[COMMAND] Pilots, Venkateshwara wing is targeting the installation! Stop them!
[DELTA 2] Impossible, Command! Satyanarayana wing is all over us!
[COMMAND] ...
[COMMAND] Changing wing naming conventions! Engage Cancer wing on the double!
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on February 08, 2011, 05:50:53 pm: I've always considered wing naming more of a general theater thing then a written rule. If the guy running the AWACS want's to designate wings as ex-girlfriends then he can. Yea they should become standard over time in that theater of operation but if a second front opened up you would expect multiple naming conventions. Heck even different branches of the military (if they exists) might call them different things.
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Lucika on February 08, 2011, 05:53:17 pm: Quote from: FUBAR-BDHR on February 08, 2011, 05:50:53 pm
If the guy running the AWACS want's to designate wings as ex-girlfriends then he can.

I love the idea. :drevil:
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Woolie Wool on February 08, 2011, 11:04:27 pm: There's a reason why the short and simple Shivan wing names got underlined as the ones used in FS1 itself. There's a ****load of names on that list; you'd need to have used up a huge number of wings to have to fall back on Satanarayana.
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on February 09, 2011, 02:11:44 pm: Sat(y)a...na...rayana?
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Woolie Wool on February 09, 2011, 09:24:37 pm: Toomanygoddamnletters
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Asteroth on February 09, 2011, 09:47:49 pm: Or how about Nyarlathotep? I have no clue how the Derelict VAs were able to pronounce that ****.
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Rodo on February 09, 2011, 09:52:30 pm: Use street names.
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: ssmit132 on February 09, 2011, 10:42:24 pm: Colours?
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Mongoose on February 10, 2011, 12:06:18 am: Quote from: Asteroth on February 09, 2011, 09:47:49 pm
Or how about Nyarlathotep? I have no clue how the Derelict VAs were able to pronounce that ****.
In multiple ways, as it turned out. I think I went with "nyar-LATH-hoe-tep" myself. :p
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Lucika on February 17, 2011, 07:06:56 pm: Quote from: Rodo on February 09, 2011, 09:52:30 pm
Use street names.

Destroy Wall
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Rodo on February 17, 2011, 07:17:53 pm: Foreing nation's streets names?:

Riglos
Callao
Terrero
Cardenas
Calcena
Araujo
Ankara
Bragado
Fraga
Leiva

etc...
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: CAP1331 on February 19, 2011, 09:32:07 pm: Hindu astrology inspired names?
There is plenty of usable names at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_astrology. You have Surya (the sun), Chandra (the moon), Mangala (Mars), Budha (Mercury), Shukra (Venus), Shani (Saturn). There's lots of usable names in there: Rahu, Ketu, Mesa, Simha, Kanya, Tula, Dhanus, Makara, Sukha, Putra, Ari, Dharma, Karma, Labha, Vyaya, Magha, Ardra, Hasta, Chitra, Svati, etc...
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Snail on February 21, 2011, 06:00:50 am: Quote from: Rodo on February 09, 2011, 09:52:30 pm
Use street names.
Destroy Crips
Destroy Bloods
Destroy that East Side Mother****er
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Jeff Vader on February 21, 2011, 06:23:19 am: Call for blackup
Title: Re: Really? Enemy wing name suggestions (FS1)
Post by: Woolie Wool on February 21, 2011, 09:31:03 am: Quote from: Snail on February 21, 2011, 06:00:50 am
Quote from: Rodo on February 09, 2011, 09:52:30 pm
Use street names.
Destroy Crips
Destroy Bloods
Destroy that East Side Mother****er

:lol:

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