Darren J Pierson Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Might as well ask this earlier than later? It was cool when forumites could request their names be used for leaders in CM - so any chance of getting our sorry selves into ToW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 I dub thee Pvt Darren J Pierson. Now take point and find that machinegun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren J Pierson Posted July 29, 2006 Author Share Posted July 29, 2006 I'm sorry, you misspelled Lt. General. Edit: PS - I'm not volunteering to coordinate it. I remember all the awful garbage Fionn got put through about the names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 From what I have seen, you can actually name individual troops and crewmen if you edit the mission files. Normally though, the names are randomly generated from a list of common first and last names based on nationality. Madmatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren J Pierson Posted July 29, 2006 Author Share Posted July 29, 2006 Which of course begs the question, will you consider adding some more names to the common national name database? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steiner14 Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Hopefully the german names will be real german names and not such a bad joke like in CM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 The names in CM were taken from phone books and real period documents of the nations represented, so if they are a bad joke, then your the only one that seems to think so. As to adding more names, that looks like a possibility yes, although each nation already has far more than would ever be needed it seems. Madmatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steiner14 Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Then maybe CDV changed the names? The usual german names are not there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Originally posted by Steiner14: Then maybe CDV changed the names? The usual german names are not there. What are you talking about? :confused: I do own the CDV versions of both CMBB and AK and the german names are just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steiner14 Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Instad of choosing extremely rare names out of telephonebooks, which leads with the randomness in the game to a strong underrepresentation of usual names, i'd find it better to use the most common german names (same for other nations). Here are the most common 100 german names: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_h%C3%A4ufigsten_deutschen_Familiennamen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren J Pierson Posted July 29, 2006 Author Share Posted July 29, 2006 Can you give some example of the bad joke names? I'm just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 I can't see a problem here. In a current game I'm playing I have a Meier, Krüger, Hartmann, Peter, Berger and Schultz next to a von Steuben, Wittmann and others. Ah, and a Unt Orosz and a Lt.Hardenberger... From probably 50 names in the battle there are not more than a handful of names I'd call "extremely rare". And I actually prefer NOT having a dozen Meiers and Müllers in my Kampfgruppe... A total non-issue IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steiner14 Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Anglen, Anhalt, Belin, Blauvelt, Bögenschutz, Bott, Braunstein, Cränen, Dank, Edelstein, Eichhorn, Essen, Euling, Feldmann, Fell, Freitag, Gaschler, Gelband, Gres, Greup, Grow, Hamblen, Handschein,... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 I liked to edit the file of Close Combat that had the names and add in the names of myself and my friends. It was something fun to do to see if we ever showed up in game and then follow along in our progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Originally posted by Steiner14: Anglen, Anhalt, Belin, Blauvelt, Bögenschutz, Bott, Braunstein, Cränen, Dank, Edelstein, Eichhorn, Essen, Euling, Feldmann, Fell, Freitag, Gaschler, Gelband, Gres, Greup, Grow, Hamblen, Handschein,... So, these are your "bad joke names"? Well, I guess we just have to disagree here then, I actually don't think any of those names is so totally out of place. Except Gaschler of course. Nobody could possibly have such a silly name... [ July 29, 2006, 05:16 PM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Greup is fondly remembered as the 6+1 Oberst from the original Squad Leader; I love seeing his name crop up from time to time. I'd love actually for the random list to be editable rather than the mission files so that we could have the same groovy names all the time. The game seems to take on a different dimension with familiar last names cropping up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren J Pierson Posted July 30, 2006 Author Share Posted July 30, 2006 I wonder how many, if any, of those names were requested into CM the first time by forum members? Or from ASL as was pointed out? As I'm not German except by descent I have no clue about these names. Even if they aren't in the 100 most common names are they that unusual? For today or WWII? or if I was culturally German would I be rolling my eyes? As far as I can tell the current German polling is 1-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorgTzu Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I mentioned it in another thread, but it would not be that hard to enable name change from in game...(you could rename teams in cc4,cc5) then you could name anyone anything you like, which would just add another "little thing" to help set TOW apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Originally posted by ParaBellum: [QB] ...Ah, and a Unt Orosz and a Lt.Hardenberger... Ha! I knew I outranked Rune! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMC Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: Greup is fondly remembered as the 6+1 Oberst from the original Squad Leader; I love seeing his name crop up from time to time.No, Obr. Greup was the 10-3 superhero. The 6+1 was Col. Rosenberger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Originally posted by RMC: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: Greup is fondly remembered as the 6+1 Oberst from the original Squad Leader; I love seeing his name crop up from time to time.No, Obr. Greup was the 10-3 superhero. The 6+1 was Col. Rosenberger. </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefish Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Originally posted by RMC: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: Greup is fondly remembered as the 6+1 Oberst from the original Squad Leader; I love seeing his name crop up from time to time.No, Obr. Greup was the 10-3 superhero. The 6+1 was Col. Rosenberger. </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Originally posted by Bil Hardenberger: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by ParaBellum: [QB] ...Ah, and a Unt Orosz and a Lt.Hardenberger... Ha! I knew I outranked Rune! </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabex Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 What about German "Legions" which had many nationalities? Norweigans, Dutch, French, Spaniards, Italians and Eastern Europeans all fought in German/SS uniforms(many of them voluntarily). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolColJ Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 It would be nice if you could just click on a name and change it if you wanted to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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