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[Atlasian]

Just curious. What do you call your Mechs?

Mine are:

Cicada - NINJA
Griffin - BUBBLEGUM
JagerMech x2 - CAVE TROLL / SMELLY SPIT
Thunderbolt - FAT CHICKEN
Cataphract - LOUD MOUTH

[Agent 0 Fortune]

I have 106 mechs, their names are serial numbers indicating readiness status, equipment and tech level. And even that is difficult to fit in the ridiculously small text field provided.

[Karl Marlow]

Ironically enough I call my Cicada 3M= CDA-3M, My Hunchback 4G= HBK-4G, and so on.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

I call them mechs. As opposed to the ppl here who call them robots



Also; I stopped naming them once I realized I was the only one who saw it -.-

Edited by Mechwarrior Buddah, 27 January 2015 - 09:47 PM.

[sdsnowbum]

I name mine after Transformers.

IS mechs are Autobots.
Clan mechs are Decepticons.

The best is when I can get close to the color scheme. And when I have a few variants of same chassis and can name them after the cheap clone TFs. Ahh the 80s.

[Aethon]

Atlasian, on 27 January 2015 - 09:39 PM, said:

Just curious. What do you call your Mechs?

Mine are:

Cicada - NINJA
Griffin - BUBBLEGUM
JagerMech x2 - CAVE TROLL / SMELLY SPIT
Thunderbolt - FAT CHICKEN
Cataphract - LOUD MOUTH

My Nova Prime is named NVA-Prime. My Kit Fox A is named KFX-A. You can probably guess all the rest.

[Valar13]

I am a bit cliche in naming mine after various mythological figures.

My current roster is a King Crab (Neptune), Jager (Heimdall), Thunderbolt (Wotan), Cent (Aurora), Shadowhawk (Diana), Raven (Muninn), 2 Firestarters (Hermes and Mercury), Phract (Erebus), and a BattleMaster (Lucifer).

[Escef]

There's been a couple threads on this down in the Barracks, though none of them have been active recently.

My Clan mechs I usually name for their Inner Sphere call signs. For example, my Mad Dog B is named Vulture B. Most of my Heroes are also named for the hero designator.

Battlemasters: LightShow (1G[P]), CannonFist (1D), Hilda (1S), LightShow II, (3M), Showgirl (3S)

King Crab 0000 - JohnZoidberg

Highlander 733 - The Beast

Orion M - Koh (Named after the evil spirit Koh the Facestealer from the Last Airbender series, because the build owned faces.)

Catapult C1 - Rakshasa (The build resembles the Rakshasa from Technical Readout 3055.)
Catapult Jester - Jack Napier (The Joker's name from the old Keaton/Burton Batman.)

WVR-6K - Ghost (Named for being bright white, yet seemingly people don't seem to notice it.)

Shadowhawk 2D - Shadowlander (Champion Highlander guns shoehorned into a Shadowhawk.)

Centurions - The Shark (AL) and Soul of Cent (the Champion I got for free, stripped off the gear from y old CN9-A and sold it, but felt bad, so...)

Firestarter K - SpoilSport (Because its KDR was significantly better than its W/L.)

Dire Wolf B - Swamp Thing (basic green/invasion green polygon camo)

Warhawk A - BlueBerry (blue/purple/black polygon camo)

Gargoyle - LumnoVomito (D, 6xERML), BerryNCream (A, blue/blue/white paintjob makes it look like blueberry ice cream.)

Mad Dog A - Rib Knife (Makes a great knife between the ribs, a 100 point Alpha to the back tends to end people.)

Kit Fox D - Poison Arrow (Polygon black/orange makes it look like a poison arrow frog, also jumps and has 30 LRMs.)

Loyalty Reward Mechs - Verdandi, Urdr, Skuld

[Christof Romulus]

AS7-D(F) - Anezka - Named after the love interest of Christof Romuald, the vampire from Vampire: The Masquerade, Redemption.
AS7-BH - BD-100 - Named after my favorite character's Exo-suit, Wolf Bronski, from Exo Squad.
AS7-RS - Fastlas - Named so after the 360 STD engine, making it the fastest non-hero Atlas in my collection.
AS7-D-DC - Shotgun Angel - Named after the Night Core remix of the song "Angel with a shotgun" based on weapon loadout.
AS7-S - One Winged - Named after Sepheroth's final form from Final Fantasy VII.
DWF-B - Dakkashi - Named after ballistic loadout that it supports.
DWF-Prime - Metashi - Named after dual Gauss, Dual PPC loadout that it supports.
DWF-A - Lurmashi - Named after the C-LRM 20 loadout that it supports.
TBR-S - White Glint - Named after the Armored Core piloted by the hero from Armored Core 4, in Armored Core 4: Answer. Paint job is all white.
VTR-9S(C) - Tory. It's a Victor who is named Tory... Victory... get it?
VTR-9B - Vector - Named after "What's your Vector, Victor?" from the movie comedy "Airplane".
VTR-DS - Castor - Named so due to the meta build of Gauss PPC.
JR7-O - Veritech - Named after the original Veritech fighters from Robotech/Macross due to all missile loadout.
JR7-F - Sleepy - Named so due to the fact it overheats very easily with six medium lasers.

All other mechs I have currently are unnamed.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Christof Romulus, on 27 January 2015 - 10:10 PM, said:

AS7-D(F) - Anezka - Named after the love interest of Christof Romuald, the vampire from Vampire: The Masquerade, Redemption.

Nice

Christof Romulus, on 27 January 2015 - 10:10 PM, said:

AS7-BH - BD-100 - Named after my favorite character's Exo-suit, Wolf Bronski, from Exo Squad.

Hence why I want them to put in the Longbow XD

The only mech I would have named would have been the atlas with the angel wings and Id have named it Castiel

Edited by Mechwarrior Buddah, 27 January 2015 - 10:14 PM.

[EgoSlayer]

Defaults. Always Defaults.

[ccrider]

All my mechs are given "Orky" names. Ead Kicka, Ead Smasha, Skull Busta, etc. Thought of using Eldar names, since that is the 40k army I use, but screw messing with pretend alphabets for names. Plus, orky names are just more fun. I also paint all my mechs green and purple, G1 constructicon style. Not very effective at warding off missles though....

[Alistair Winter]

I use their original designation (e.g. FS9-K) followed by a name with the last letter in their designation.
For example:
FS9-K Knight
FS9-H Hunter

It gets real tricky due to the 12 letter limit.

I wish PGI would let us have 2 lines of 12 letters. You notice we can already press 'enter' when naming a mech. But only one line of text will show up. If we could have 2 lines of 12 letters, you could do stuff like
"CPLT-K2 / XL315" or "CPLT-K2 / Stock build" or even "Stock STD260 / Trg info + 360 " to display more information without clicking or hovering your mouse over every mech.

[El Bandito]

I love Borderlands 2. Sue me.

Edited by El Bandito, 27 January 2015 - 10:24 PM.

[Escef]

Christof Romulus, on 27 January 2015 - 10:10 PM, said:

AS7-BH - BD-100 - Named after my favorite character's Exo-suit, Wolf Bronski, from Exo Squad.

In Wolf Bronsky's evaluation, the psych-tech concluded that inside Bronsky, there was a shy, frightened little boy. Beside that, somebody wrote "Yeah, because Bronsky ate him."

Edited by Escef, 27 January 2015 - 10:27 PM.

[Ultimax]

Most of mine are either default or what their load out is (especially for clan mechs).


"7x MPLs" or "4x CERLLAS", etc.

[Direwoof]

King Crab-CRAFF
Dire wolf-DireWoof
Thunderbolt-DarudeSandstorm
Nova-Chevy
Jenner-Capt.Falcon

[LordKnightFandragon]

My Warhawks are named

Claw: This is actually the nickname given to Republic Lord-Legionnaire Fandragon's Kodiak, a really childish nickname, based on the mech's claws.

Firestorm: Its actually a name given to a Direwolf piloted by a KRL mechwarrior. But since I dont have a DWF......

Slam Hammer: I honestly dont know where this name came from....

My Stormcrow is named Ankle Biter, cuz its nippin at ur heels, but nothin else.

My AS7-S is named Nobalist, after a KRL mechwarrior who kinda upholds Paladin ideals and morals and stuff....This mech, along side the AH is sitting stripped in the hangar.

[xengk]

Only my most frequent used and best performing mech gets a nickname.

Blackjack 3 - Breadknife
Orion P - Sire
Hunchback GI - Long Thow
Trebuchet LG - Fire Bucket
Awesome 8Q - Big Grin
Awesome 9M - All Range Mode

[Impossible Wasabi]

Popemobile 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...and so on.

Edited by The True Space Pope, 27 January 2015 - 11:07 PM.