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[GreenHell]

I named my 6-SPL Locust "Penny", because she's combat ready. (and she eats assaults for breakfast...)
Hunchback 4P = Hyper Beam
Wolfhound with 3 LL's = Wolfy Snipes
Mauler with 2-LBX and SRM6's = Splatterhouse
Thunderbolt with 2-PPC's = Goku
Marauder 3R with 2-PPC's & AC10 = Bad Touch
Jaeger DD 3-UAC/5 = DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA
KGC-000 = I Pinch
HBK-4SP = Sven the Angry Fister (don't ask...)

[Remillard]

I named my Oxide "Petit Morte", but that's the only one I've ever named. I should probably come up with a good name for my MAD-3R but honestly can't think of anything appropriate.

[Malcolm Vordermark]

I name mine with their weapon load outs.

2LP 4ERM
GR 2LP ERM
4A6 4SP 2F

Started doing this when the CW pictures were just of the default load outs and there was little other way to tell which mechs had which builds.

[GRiPSViGiL]

I name my mechs their builds for obvious reasons. For example: 4ERLL, 6SRMS, 4MPL 2LPL, etc. etc. Makes for quick selection especially for putting together CW drop decks.

Rouken Vordermark, on 11 April 2016 - 10:39 AM, said:

I name mine with their weapon load outs.

2LP 4ERM
GR 2LP ERM
4A6 4SP 2F

Started doing this when the CW pictures were just of the default load outs and there was little other way to tell which mechs had which builds.

Saw this after I dropped my post but same here.

Edited by GRiPSViGiL, 11 April 2016 - 11:10 AM.

[Dashia]

had a SHD2-2 named THE SQWAK HAWK . runs ML and 4x SRM4

[The Amazing Spider Man]

5V: Symbiote
5K: Peter Parker
5D: Spider-Man
Hero: If I found a use for it I'd need a good name, lucky me.
6 MG: Webslinger

[Black Rabbit of Inle]

Name my main mechs after Watership Down characters (supprise)

Catapult C4 - Dark Owsla
Raven 3L - El Ahrairah
Locust 1VP - BlackBerry
Oxide - Rabscuttle
Huggin - Pipkin
Kit Fox Prime - Hazel
Hunchback 4G - Campion
Grid Iron - Clover
Cicada 2B - Dandelion
Atalas 7S - Bigwig
Blackjack 1 - Spartina
Nova Prime - Holly
Atlas DDC - Woundwort

... Cause nothing says armoured death machines like naming them after bunnies

[SteelBruiser]

Just a few;

Ravens - Never More, Skeeter, DoubleTime
KGC - Tin Tukas, Ghost Crab, Skuttle Butt
HBK II C - BoomBox, Can Opener, Sparks Alot
Cataphract - Phugly
Marauders - Major Pain, Sizzler

[Jay Leon Hart]

Hound of War, on 11 April 2016 - 09:07 AM, said:

I name mine from the weapons they carry,it is a bit boring but it lets me change around my drop deck faster.

I, too, am boring.

[mogs01gt]

only named one really, my cent-ah is Spartacus.

[Johnny Z]

I guess I name mine after the role they are good at mostly.

Commando-2D - Sting
Raven-3L (C) - Pan
Raven-4X - Valkyrie
Urbanmech-R60L - Ranger

Centurian-9-AH (L) - Athena
Cicada-X5 (Hero) - Moon Dancer
Cicada-2A (C) - Scirroco
Hunchback-4G - Hoplite
Hunchback-4P - Ronin
Wolverine-6R - Wyvern

Orion-1-P (Hero) - Myrmidon
Thunderbolt 9SE (C) - Avalon Star

King Crab-000 - Storm
Stalker-5S - Aurora
Stalker-4N - Star of Isen

I am definitely adding a Marauder or two to this and also either a Sting, Wasp or Phoenix Hawk, maybe more than 1 of each, to this at some point. A hero for sure and maybe a couple champions. Also at least some of the names above are place holders.

Each of the mechs above has camo and is fully mastered and outfitted and with at least one cockpit item to preference.

Also part of the dictionary description for Myrmidon is wrong because it simply means "on the water" and is an old word for marine. Read it.... myr meaning mirror (one of the languages in the area still calls the sea "mori") by the looks of it.... Just like Mediterranean means middle earth.

I should add that the definition of Myrmidon at www.dictionary.com was entirely wrong 100% until recently. The part about the ants was likely added by the Turkish empire later which was/is vast and was at war with that area for quite literally thousands of years, the most recent large scale battles taking place around 100 years ago.

Edited by Johnny Z, 11 April 2016 - 12:08 PM.

[TercieI]

Prosperity Park, on 11 April 2016 - 09:02 AM, said:

I usually stick to a theme across a chassis family. For instance, all my Blackjacks have gambling names (Full House, Split, Bust, etc) and all my Hunchbacks are names after Hobbits.

This is what I do. My very favorite series is the Jenners. Stared with Brownie, Pixie and Sprite. Now includes Oni, Goblin, Gremlin, Clurachan, etc. (between IS and Clan I have 14 Jenners)

[Droolcup Commando]

almost all of my mechs have a name based off their weapon setup. for instance:
My Nova-C small laser brawler is called "Illumina" (a sword of light)
My Nova-prime erppc sniper is called "Dawnbringer"
My Stormcrow srm/streak is called "Firebolt"
My Ebon Jag with Ultra Ac20 and lasers is called "Drunkpunch" (it has a very irish color and cockpit setup)

just a few examples.

[Prc]

BLR 16 Laser Boat - "AFTERBURNER"

Jagger S Dual Gauss - "JFKexperience" (Self explanatory)

BLR 1S 4xLL - "DRAGONFORCE"

Edited by Prc, 11 April 2016 - 12:27 PM.

[FrankyTooSkanky]

I can't really put any of my mech names on here because it'd be all asterisks. I promise they're all excessively profane and vulgar.
The most appropriate ones would be my battlemasters: BattleBanger and BattleFapper.

[Cybrid 0x0t2md2w]

my shadowcats are named Heresy and then their perspective model. To play a shadowcat that isn't LPL is heresy to the meta. I have my uac20, ppcs and srms to brawl in heresy, no matter how many times I die.

[Chuck Jager]

I go with weapon loadout so that I can make switches on my drop deck for CW depending on the map.

My CW mechs are very different than my group Q mechs, at least for clan.

[Windscape]

GreenHell, on 11 April 2016 - 10:28 AM, said:

I named my 6-SPL Locust "Penny", because she's combat ready. (and she eats assaults for breakfast...)
Hunchback 4P = Hyper Beam
Wolfhound with 3 LL's = Wolfy Snipes
Mauler with 2-LBX and SRM6's = Splatterhouse
Thunderbolt with 2-PPC's = Goku
Marauder 3R with 2-PPC's & AC10 = Bad Touch
Jaeger DD 3-UAC/5 = DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA
KGC-000 = I Pinch
HBK-4SP = Sven the Angry Fister (don't ask...)

i like those names Especially Penny, Splatterhouse (like my crap flinga) Goku, and DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA (but i dont know if you can fit that )

[wamX]

I name my war machines weirdly

Dragon (Champion)
Gauss and 2x ERLL's: Autumn King

Warhammers:
Pikeman, Guardian

Thunderbolt: Silencer

Raven: Nevermore

Hunchbacks

Breacher (4G)
Partyback (look it up)
Skirmisher (4SE)

To name a few

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

The only mech I named was my Cent AH.

Known as "The Ham" because when I bought it I had asked on the forums about which Centurion variant to get, I was told to go ham or go home and get the AH with the AC20.

My first night with it I managed to get bad company, sitting at under 30% hp after a massive brawl on forest colony, winning the match by finishing off the last enemy Cicada. I also remember a great Atlas that was with me in that battle, we brawled and brawled, he fell but I kept up the fight for him.


I also made a bet with a friend that if he lost to me in a series of 1v1s, my Centurion against his Timber Wolf, that he'd have to purchase a Centurion AH. A Centurion known as "Penance" now sits in his mech stable.