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[Holmes]

Or what is its origin? I always find topics like this interesting.

For me, my screen name is what I'm naming my pilot (that's what it said when I signed up! I didn't know it would be my forum name.)

My signature is about my excitement for seeing my favorite band on Earth on what is possibly their retiring tour, and a retrospective of their entire career. I've wanted to see this band live since I first bought their Live Aus Berlin DVD over a decade ago, they've been called the "greatest live band on Earth" in many awards over the years, as they put on theatrics... not just perform music.



If we are ever allowed to change our screen name, I'll make it my usual one and explain the origin to that (it's a lot more interesting than "Holmes.")

Edited by Holmes, 17 December 2011 - 01:58 PM.

[Marxman]

I was born and raised in eastern germany. When i played mostly flightsims i often played the red side cause i was used to the types of aircraft. After a while i became quite good in shooting down planes with the gun. So i go the callsign marksman. And as a pun to where i came from a friend suggested i should change it to marxman. So it has no real political background or something like that. While playing mechwarrior i was mostly called Eddy because thats my nicknam in reallife too. But the screenname marxman stuck.
Sometimes it made me a prime target . I remember a drop in mw4mercs on an open server and someone called " commie alert!" and made me their fav target. But it gave me a lot of training in positioning , spreading damage all over my mech and shootingdiscipline while being under fire. I dont know however why that happend to often. Maybe people didnt get the joke or they just overreacted . looking back it was fun though. So i kept the name. Other than that i sometimes named myself the bountyhunter in mw4 mercs in rememberance of the character from the BT novels. Had some good games carrying that name too so i hope i did him justice, at least a little bit.

Other names i had in the past on different forums where LT1, Whammy, WD_Ed, Ganymed

[KillBox]

No Sig yet, but my name is actually a military term used ot describe the area that is supposed to be "ground zero" for conventional weapons fire. It will be my character's callsign once MWO gets up and running.

[theginganinja]

The name's because I'm Irish, and I added the "warrior" part because A.) Plain old "Irish" was taken, and B.) because it sounded cool. Plus, I figure it'll make a decent callsign in-game.

The sig is a few things. My name is obvious, no real need to explain that. The Celtic knot is just there because I like them, and figured it would be cool. The Adder gives it a Battletech/MechWarrior twist, plus it is my favorite 'Mech (Can't wait till the Clans invade, just so I can hopefully get my hands on one). Finally, the bit at the bottom is Irish Gaelic for "I have fought and conquered"

[KingCobra]

I picked my name based on my playstyle




Come on gameranger and play me i will show you what i mean.

Edited by KingCobra, 17 December 2011 - 09:10 AM.

[Kilroy]

"Kilroy was here."

In World War 2 Allied soldiers would paint the phrase and a cartoon of a man peering over a wall on buildings of the places they were stationed or encamped.

[Aaron DeChavilier]

named after famed General Aaron DeChavilier, second in command to Aleksandr Kerensky during the liberation
of Terra. I love the Atlas and he was a notable Atlas pilot, and suggested to Aleksandr after liberating Terra that
the SLDF should overthrow the House Lords.

As for my sig well that's a little funnier: clantech going to 11 is a play on a line from Spinal Tap, noting the
ridiculousness of the power that is clantech.
'scr ew the free 20' is in reference to the TT, where all mechs with double-heat sinks get 10 free DHS in the engine
giving them an automatic 'free' 20 dissapation, I with several others think that this aspect ruins the balance of many
designs and removes heat-management as a problem.

[Vincent Vascaul]

My name is from the character in a BT fanfic I wrote Years ago he runs his own merc group. sig is self explainitory.

[Conora Lance]

Conora is a mispronunciation of my actual surname, it completely changed a letter but it's my favourite mistake. So I adopted it online and the surname explains itself really, it's just a nod to BT.

[Helmer]

Pretty simple . Having played ARMA and fllight Sims for so long I prefer to use my last name , Helmer .

And when I found out years ago that Helmer was a Jade Falcon Bloodname , I figured it would work well here .

Edited by Helmer, 17 December 2011 - 09:44 AM.

[GaussDragon]

First multiplayer experience was with my friends from school, we all started playing StarCraft. I noticed the marine carried a weapon called a "gauss rifle" and thought it sounded pretty neat. I also thought dragons were pretty awesome, so I merged the two. When I started playing MechWarrior 4 in November of 2001, I carried the name over. So there it is, the "Gauss" in my name had nothing to do with MechWarrior whatsoever, it was just coincidence.

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

The name says it!

NO...i don't eat birds, but most of my spiders (tarantulas) would do it.
Birdeater, Bird Eater or Bird Eating Spider are some of the known tarantula "slangwords". The reason: I keep, breed and love tarantulas since i was 16 years old (i'm nearly 29). I keep a lot of rare species, but also the known and common species. Tarantulas aren't the only prefered pets. In the past, i also kept some other arthropods like scorpions, centipedes (scolopenders), vinegaroons, mantises etc. Currently i also have a male veiled chameleon, an nice fishtank, two gentle rabbits (Thor & Loki) and two cats (Sydney & Murphy). I love animals and each month, i must spend much money for them. The tarantula is my signature animal and i use my nickname since 12 years.
No wonder that the ZPH-1A Tarantula, besides the Annihilator and the Warhawk, is one of my favorite IS BattleMechs.

[VixNix]

VIX NIX

vix = volatility index
nix = kill

[Mchawkeye]

Mchawkeye.

Hmmm. ~well, back in the early 90's, before the rise of the internet, my game handle was Hawkeye, after Donald Sutherland in M*A*S*H, probably one of the finest movies ever made.

Then the internet came a long and somehow, despite my reasonably quick uptake of it, Hawkeye had gone. Darn it.

So I fired a Mc in front of it, as a reference to my Scottish heritage. Shortly after I had decided that, and applied it bloody everywhere, I discovered the Mc is actually Irish, and Mac was Scottish. Previously I thought them simply interchangeable. Oh my naive teenage years,

Figured, what with having an irish mother, I could get away with it.

[GreenEyed]

My eyes are green .

[Habokku]

Greetings

This is one of my two accounts that I post regularly under. The other being GDL_Havoc. Habokku is the Japanese translation for the word: Havoc, and as such I use it as my general posting name.

Now, as Paul Harvey would say, here's the rest of the story.

Long many years ago, I got MW3 right after it released. After devouring the single player content, and having a computer with enough of an internet connection to attempt multiplayer, I jumped in with both feet under the name CobraJC7. I was in my early highschool years, and My reasoning for this was simple: I had just finished building and painting a scale model of an AH-1 Cobra gunship, and liked the name.

After a month or so of playing, I happened to drop in with a particular pilot by the name of GDL_Highriot, whom I have sadly lost touch with over the years. I do hope one day I might be reunited with him and the rest of the crew I came to call friends over the ensuing years, but I digress. Highriot was impressed with my abilities and asked if I was a part of any leagues or affiliated with any online MW3 units, which I wasn't. So he asked if I was interested in trying out for the Gray Death Legion, which was in the BattleTech Universe League (BTU). I figured why not, and gave it a shot. He told me about the unit, that it was an I.S. outfit, and about league, explaining that it was stock only. I actually preferred this, having tried out different game types out over the previous month. He asked what weight class I wanted to try out in, and I said heavy, as I tended (and still do tend) to prefer heavy and assault 'mechs. I assumed he would bring a 70 ton Avatar, and considered doing the same, before I remembered my tinkering in the 'mech lab and remembered the Orion. 75 tons, and armor comparable to an assault 'mech. So I went with it, and proceeded to trounce him several times over. He then happily accepted me in to the Gray Death Legion, but decided to rename me after our bout. If I remember his quote correctly... "Yea... I'm going to need to rename you... from now on you're Havoc. So from that moment forward, I was GDL_Havoc through MW3 and all incarnations, then MW4 and all incarnations.

Fast forwards a bunch of years and GDL has sort of disappeared while I'm in college and not long ago I get back in to MW4 through the Mektek freeware version.

I fell in with the Draconis Combine of the NBT league shortly afterwards, thus Habokku was born.

And that's the semi-short story behind my name.

As for my sigs, the picture was created by one of my old GDL mates many many years ago. The quotes are of course, the Shakespearean quote from the play Julius Caesar. "Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war"

The second is my favorite quote from Captain Malcolm Reynolds of the Firefly television show. It speaks to me and as such I use it.

Thanks for reading!

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-Havoc
A.K.A. Habokku

Edited by Habokku, 17 December 2011 - 11:30 AM.

[Xavier Truscott]

This name i came up with playing MW3 on the zone. My friend and I started up a Clan Star Adder group for league play and Truscott was a Star Adder Bloodname for alot of the Khans. My previous callsign to that was DthZne or something like that, i had tried to make the callsign Deathzone, but the zone wouldn't allow Death or Zone to be a part of your name, kinda a total fail on that point, especially when in voice coms, and people would call me de thez nee or something similar.

[Wolf Hreda]

My name is a combination of the name and Nickname of an Irish Warrior of noted badassery. His name was Ulf Hreda, He was also called Wolf The Quarrelsome. And one of his most legendary exploits was the slaying of a Viking who had recently beheaded the king. I won't go into the gory details here, but you should look it up. Pretty amazing. As for my signature, it's the way a wolf hunts, as it should be. And I love that I made it rhyme.

[Gorthaur]

i was in a lord of the rings based clan for forever in MW3 (Clan of the Rohirrim) so i decided to be nerdy and used a name from J.R.R Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" which is about the creation of middle earth. Basically "Gorthaur the Cruel" was one of the different forms Sauron took in middle earth. The name kind of just stuck after a while.

as for my sig, it is a screen shot of a shadowcat in MW3 with a skin i made for it. i also added a little jade falcon love to it.

Edited by Gorthaur, 17 December 2011 - 12:00 PM.

[Mason Grimm]

Comstar Pilot Dossier - Mason Grimm

Mason Grimm has earned the nickname The Grim Reaper due to the habit of leaving very little standing in his wake. In most of the engagements recorded thus far the Reapers have exhibited a tendency to show very little mercy to opposing forces. However, if an enemy pilot powers down his mech in surrender then the Reapers will grant quarter, often times confiscating the mech in question and incorporating it into the Company ToE. The enemy mechwarrior, once secured and debriefed, is offered the choice of joining the company (if a fellow mercenary) or is repatriated to one of the Great Houses. Our agents have surmised that Grimm is possibly an illegitimate child of Hendrik Grimm III, leader of the Oberon Confederation; a band of pirates just outside the Inner Sphere in what is known as the Periphery.

We have not been able to confirm his genetic heritage at the time of this report! However, since we have no records of him serving in any of the Major House military units, nor receiving any formal military training within the inner sphere, it is likely that his origins are somewhere outside of known space making this assumption most plausible.

Edited by Mason Grimm, 19 December 2011 - 06:04 AM.