[Kie99]

Originally posted by karajorma




Doubt it.

Sorry, I've got the wrong end of the stick here, I was thinking that it might be a hint from because there are 3 races, I forgot about the fact that Bosch probably named the ships.

[aldo_14]

Incidentally, the Colossus has a French connection; the HMS Colossus was a WW2 aircraft carrier that was sold to the French Navy... a lot (90%) of FS2 ships share the names of Royal Navy ships; Repulse, Warspite, Lysander, Argo, Bastion, Legion, Andromeda, Aeneas, Coriolanus, Vigilant, Carthage, Champion, Rampart, Parapet, Oberon, Warwick, Diomedes, Fortune, Phoenicia, Agrippa, Stalwart, Templar, Malta and Sparta.

I couldn't be bothered checking the NTF names, though.

[NGTM-1R]

Actually, I was struck that a lot of NTF cruisers have names that seemed RN-ish.

[Night Hammer]

i thought aquitaine was roman or greek?

[pyro-manic]

Nah. It's a region of western France IIRC. Like Normandy or Brittany, etc.

[Cobra]

no, austrian.

[EDIT] It's an austrian battlesite, iirc. all i know for sure is that it's austrian.

damn, another friggin timewarp.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Cobra
no, austrian.

Umm. No.

[Ghostavo]

EDIT: nevermind

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
Actually, I was struck that a lot of NTF cruisers have names that seemed RN-ish.

Um...I didn;t check, but almost every GTVA military ship has a RN (or one shared with a RN ship, rather....) name.  And the NTF did defect, so probably do most of their ships.

[Kie99]

I love the little in-jokes in FS2, i.e. if you target the Iceni debris when it breaking out of the Asteroid it is called Boudicea, and the next mission is called "The Romans Blunder", there are so many subtle hints in this game that many people probably don't pick up on.

Has anyone ever scanned the cargo escaping Capella?

[FireCrack]

^It's spelled bordecadia, and i'm preety sure near everyone here has picked up on that.

[Cobra]

noooooo. boadicea.

yes, i know you're joking.

[FireCrack]

crap, i spelled it twice (finished writing it then tried to spell the second half a different way)

[Cobra]

dammit, more timewarps.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by aldo_14


Um...I didn;t check, but almost every GTVA military ship has a RN (or one shared with a RN ship, rather....) name.  And the NTF did defect, so probably do most of their ships.

But with the NTF cruisers, it's very, very, RN-sounding. Like the NTC Impervious and NTC Glorious.

[kasperl]

Granted on that instance, but most of the names mentioned further above are actually from Greek/Roman mythology, so both the RN and the NTF borrowed from the same lists.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by kasperl
Granted on that instance, but most of the names mentioned further above are actually from Greek/Roman mythology, so both the RN and the NTF borrowed from the same lists.

Probably, yes.  But it is an interesting coincidence IMO; especially as I believe the Warspite and Lucidity(that is the pair of Deimos in the nebula, isn't it?)  fought in the same WW2 battle.

[Kie99]

One of my biggest hates in FREDding is deciding what to call my ships

[pyro-manic]

Bah, that's an easy one. Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Navy_ship_names

There's hundreds of 'em there. Use the battleship and carrier names for destroyers and carriers, cruiser names for corvettes, and destroyer/frigate names for cruisers and anything else.

Here's Aquitaine, by the way: http://www.france.com/regions/index.cfm?region_id=4

[kasperl]

Originally posted by aldo_14


Probably, yes.  But it is an interesting coincidence IMO; especially as I believe the Warspite and Lucidity(that is the pair of Deimos in the nebula, isn't it?)  fought in the same WW2 battle.

Actually, in the Nebula mission ("avoid the beam and you won't get hit") I think you're referring to, I think it was the Lysander and the Actium.  Actium is a small town where Octavian defeated Mark Antony, and Lysander was the commander of the Spartan fleet which was victorious against the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.
(The Lysander thing came straight from Wikipedia).

As for the Warspite and Lucidity, I'm pretty sure both are AWACS vessels. The Lucidity for sure, which fits in with the name, if my English serves me right. The Warspite, I'm not sure where in FS that name is used.