I really really lack creativity, so no. No names. I also had a hard time naming my fleet on the sheet all Sullust weekend. Probably why I came in 3rd twice this weekend.

I had no problem naming my two Tourny fleets. The first was Squadron 292 and the second, Squadron 288. Creativity is real easy once you have no standards

My flagship is the Praetor, an Imperial-II class Star Destroyer. My Victory-II class Star Destroyer is the Thresher. Don't own any other ships (and in fact I don't own the ISD yet, but soon) so hard to name them

My VSDs ar called:

- Harvester

- Harbinger

- Regulator

Gladiators:

- Eques, sometimes i call it: Venator, because i dont think an Eques exists in star wars :-)

- Provocator

CR90s

- Spark of Rebellion

- Little Strokes

- Spear of Alderaan

Nebulon Bs

- Knight Errant

- Humble Pride

- Steadfast

Mark II

- Saviour

- Survivor, sometimes i call it: indestructible II :-)

Greetings

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I really really lack creativity, so no. No names. I also had a hard time naming my fleet on the sheet all Sullust weekend. Probably why I came in 3rd twice this weekend.

I had no problem naming my two Tourny fleets. The first was Squadron 292 and the second, Squadron 288. Creativity is real easy once you have no standards

I ran with Scranton Defense Force...

I'll give you two guesses where I live, and the first doesn't count.

There was a topic on this subject long ago where I listed names for my current ones and ships I hope appear in the future. Mostly ships from RPG Campaigns I've been in. I'll try to dig it up.\\

Edit: I found it. Long post ahead! I also edited it to move the ships I plan to get in wave 2 from the hoped to see section to the confirmed section and added an extra MC30 and MC80 to the list to fit my current purchasing plans.

Edit that's part of the copied post: I realized I hadn't included any explanations for how vessels that were Privateer ships originally became regular Alliance ships for Armada. I'll to something similar for the Marauders if they appear in game as a model of ship used a third faction. .

Rebel ships

Nebulon-B Escort Frigate:

Fireheart=An Alliance captured Nebulon-B that was the first capital ship any of my Star Wars RPG characters, or any of my RPG characters for that matter commanded. (He scored a very lucky shot which disabled its lasers on one side leading to its crew surrendering after its TIEs were wiped out.

Starthorn=A Nebulon-B which my character commanded in a campaign that started with him taking command of the ship just before Endor. He was XO and the ship had been ambushed while beginning its run to Sullust with the Captain and several other crew members dying in the engagement.

Liberty's Spear=A Nebulon-B an alt of mine commanded during a campaign which included a mission where we had to punch a hole in an Imperial blockade to allow Mon Mothma from a meeting with the leader's of an independent resistance cell which the Imperials had crashed with a Interdictor and escort ships.

Nebulon-B Support Frigate:

Stacked Deck=A Nebulon-B that the party in an Alliance Privateer campaign I was part of bought with a combination of our gambler characters winnings from a Sabacc Tournament that the rest of the party used as a distraction while we robbed a nearby bank, and the bank heist.

The Armada version accepted an offer to join the Alliance fleet when costs of supplies and repairs began to outweigh what they were gaining from their raids. We actually received such an offer in the campaign but were still debating accepting it when the GM had to stop attending for several months due to family issues so we switched to a new campaign.

Black Flag=A Nebulon-B which an EOE party I was in helped steal to pay off our obligation to the dealer who leased us our starting ship. It was sold to our party in a SAGA Alliance Privateer campaign I was in years ago.

The Armada version was given to the Alliance on the condition that they never rename it after the group captured a Nebulon-B2 and switched their operation to it. The capture of the Nebulon-B2 and its convoy was the final battle of the Black Flag crew's campaign.

Freedom's Edge=Originally a badly damaged Nebulon-B captured by an independent planet's defense force during a botched Imperial assault on their world. (Part of the planned attack fleet was diverted to deal with a CIS holdout fleet raiding a nearby ship building center and the message warning the rest of the attack force to hold didn't get through.) After a second overwhelming attack hit soon after patchwork repairs were completed the surviving ships of the defense fleet scattered with the crew of Freedom's Edge deciding to become anti-Imperial pirates (This was a few years pre-Alliance) and later Alliance Privateers. (The crew started running a modded CR90 and the GM expected us t have to flee the first battle rather then the second but such we managed to win the first battle he gave us the captured Neb-B as a reward though at first it had penalties to hanger capacity, shields, and damage resistance until we managed to scrape up the resources and contacts to repair her.)

The Armada Version chose to accept an offer to join the Alliance fleet rather then become privateers (The GM made the offer to the players and becoming a privateer ship won in a 4/3 vote among the player characters.

CR90A Corvettes:

Arrowhead=One of two CR90s that were part of a fleet an RPG character of mine was assigned to train and ended up leading into battle

Crossbow=The other CR90 from that fleet.

CR90B Corvettes:

Octil=A modded New Republic CR90 assigned to my party in a D6 campaign where we were assigned to scout the Deep Core for Imperial outposts.

Flashfire=A modded Alliance Privateer CR90 that my party in the campaign where we eventually got the Black Flag served on for a few missions before capturing what became our first Party commanded ship. (We were the prize crew assigned to a captured Action VI which we converted to a modded Interceptor class Frigate after Flashfire was destroyed before returning to the shadowport we were based out of).

The Armada version escaped the battle where she was destroyed in the campaign but was badly damaged, too badly for the crew to afford repairs. The Alliance offered to buy the vessel, repair it and give those officers and crew who wanted to join the Alliance Fleet commissions, an offer most of the crew including the command staff took while those who didn't joined the crew of the Hookblade (Our modded Interceptor class) and carried on as Privateers.

Assault Frigate Mark IIA:

Hope Eternal=An Assault Frigate Mark II which was one of three constructed with funds from an RP character of mine's family. The character was from Ralltiir, a retired corvette captain in its customs fleet and ran a small shipping business but his family was very rich. While their bank accounts were seized and most of the members were killed during the invasion a few members and many of their valuables managed to escape on the transports he owned or their yachts and they sold most of those off via agents then donated the money to the rebellion

Liberation's Fury=An Assault Frigate Mark II which was rescued from an Imperial ambush by a task force led by an old character of mine which later became part of that task force when it was expanded in preparation for Endor.

Assault Frigate Mark IIB:

Sword of Justice=An Assault Frigate Mark II one of my RP characters was commanding during a shakedown cruise <The assigned captain hadn't arrived yet> that ended up turning into a mission to rescue the leaders of a local allied planet from a Strike-class Cruiser and was promoted to permanent command of the vessel while the originally scheduled captain got the next one out of the yards.

Tyranny's Fall=An Assault Frigate Mark II which was the first cruiser class vessel assigned to the Nicodemus fleet.

MC30C Torpedo Frigate

Nicodemus=The second ship Daredevil's captain commanded long term and his flagship during his time as a Section commander, and most of his time as a Squadron commander.

Hope's Dagger=An MC30C which served as an early flagship for the task force Liberation's Fury later joined

MC30c Scout Frigate

Demeter=An MC30C that was attached to a New Republic Task Force assigned to raid the Imperial controlled Core areas during a Dark Empire era Campaign

Prometheus=A second MC30C attached to that taskforce and the force's flagship.

MC80 Home One Command Cruiser.

Freedom's Star=The flagship of my first Alliance Navy RPG character to reach the rank of Line Admiral.

Light of Hope= An MC80 Cruise Liner that our party was part of an Alliance team assigned to liberate after the Empire impounded it post Dac revolt to study its systems. It eventually became the base ship of our party with our leader as Captain shortly after Endor.

MC80 Home One Assault Cruiser.

Rebel ships that I hope are coming

DP20 Frigate (AKA Corellian Gunship):

Daredevil=An Alliance DP20 named Daredevil was the first warship one of my RP characters commanded for more then one battle, and after he got promoted to Section and later Squadron command Dardevil was part of his command though it wasn't his flagship. That honor went to the second ship he commanded in multiple engagements, and then later an MC80 that was added to his command.

Justice=A New Republic modded DP20 She was a testbed for some of the new tech and upgrades that went into the Ranger class which served as the first longterm command of my character in a Vong War era campaign and several campaigns set later.

Starblade=A Corellian Sector Force DP20 which one of my RPG group's parties served as bridge crew of. It was eventually sent to the main Alliance fleet and destroyed at Endor.

Marauder class Corvette (Could also be a third faction ship but wasn't uncommon in Alliance forces in Legends, and is reasonably easy for civilians to purchase in my opinion so my RPG groups often have Alliance Marauders appear in campaigns)

Daedalus=An Alliance Marauder class ship which was the vessel Justice's captain served on during his training, and through the Battle of Endor, including commanding it for the last hour of the battle.

Broken Chains=An Alliance Marauder crewed by one of our RPG parties, a group of Corporate Sector escapees and exiles who felt that the only hope of tearing down the Corporate Sector government was an Alliance victory over the Empire.

I think between these I should be able to put together a good force for any likely scenarios unless they make a command the entire Alliance Fleet at Endor Scenario though there are a few other Alliance ship classes that I'll buy a couple of in a heartbeat if they show up in game.

I painted one of my AFs to look like a Spitfire. Named her the HMS Bentley Priory after the headquarters of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, in honour (sic) of those in the air and on the ground who did their part 75 years ago. Thinking of renaming her Spitfire since there's less explanation involved...can't expect everyone to know what Bentley Priory was

Given my current play style, I'm seriously considering naming my GSD the "Boot to the Head".

I've been kicking names around. I've been putting it off because I don't love VSDs enough to give them some of the best names I have.

If I use a title, I plan to refer to the ship by that name (ie Demolisher.)

Other than that, I can use the commander ("I'll activate Screed") but that leaves me with an awkward "I'm going to activate the black one."

Der Erlkönig is the planned name of my Flagship ISD because it's an MFin' BA poem, that's why.

I have some other German names kicking around as well, Kriegsglück probably for a Raider.

We'll see what else I need. Might need to add a fun name for Demolisher (I would always go out of my way to be clear which ship in referring to where necessary, of course.)

Would dead or dying count?

My Corvettes that are not titled are named the Wasp and Mosquito

So, the answer to my OP is generally "yes".

Cool,

Now, to what degree do you share the existence of these names with the people you play against, or are they just part of your headcanon? If the former, are these your regular opponents or just anyone you happen to play against?

I painted one of my AFs to look like a Spitfire. Named her the HMS Bentley Priory after the headquarters of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, in honour (sic) of those in the air and on the ground who did their part 75 years ago. Thinking of renaming her Spitfire since there's less explanation involved...can't expect everyone to know what Bentley Priory was

Yes, I saw it yesterday day before yesterday. I really liked it. It will be my honor to destroy it some day.

So, the answer to my OP is generally "yes".

Cool,

Now, to what degree do you share the existence of these names with the people you play against, or are they just part of your headcanon? If the former, are these your regular opponents or just anyone you happen to play against?

I painted one of my AFs to look like a Spitfire. Named her the HMS Bentley Priory after the headquarters of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, in honour (sic) of those in the air and on the ground who did their part 75 years ago. Thinking of renaming her Spitfire since there's less explanation involved...can't expect everyone to know what Bentley Priory was

Yes, I saw it yesterday day before yesterday. I really liked it. It will be my honor to destroy it some day.

I look forward to meeting you on the battlefield, vile Sith honorable sir.

In our League,we're casual, so the use of names on our ships is purely for fun. Come to think of it, the rest of the world would most likely label us touched in the head after seeing 4 Old guys pew pew-ing with plastic ships named "the Bloody footprint" , "the Moldy Potato", and "the Burnt Sausage"......but to each his own right? I think naming something makes it some what more valuable in a gaming sense and you tend to fight alittle harder to keep the bugger alive....

So, the answer to my OP is generally "yes".

Cool,

Now, to what degree do you share the existence of these names with the people you play against, or are they just part of your headcanon? If the former, are these your regular opponents or just anyone you happen to play against?

I painted one of my AFs to look like a Spitfire. Named her the HMS Bentley Priory after the headquarters of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, in honour (sic) of those in the air and on the ground who did their part 75 years ago. Thinking of renaming her Spitfire since there's less explanation involved...can't expect everyone to know what Bentley Priory was

Yes, I saw it yesterday day before yesterday. I really liked it. It will be my honor to destroy it some day.

I look forward to meeting you on the battlefield, vile Sith honorable sir.

You will regret experience. *glowers threateningly*

You have now earned the attention of Imperial Intelligence and efforts will be made to bring your insurrection to a swift demise.

Meanwhile, here is the story of the Imperial victories and the Rebellion's infamy of the Rainy Day tournament:

Following Caluula, Imperial Navy Presses Advantage

Ships are named as:

Space whale -- any af2

Triangle of death -- any vsd/isd

So, the answer to my OP is generally "yes".

Cool,

Now, to what degree do you share the existence of these names with the people you play against, or are they just part of your headcanon? If the former, are these your regular opponents or just anyone you happen to play against?

I painted one of my AFs to look like a Spitfire. Named her the HMS Bentley Priory after the headquarters of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, in honour (sic) of those in the air and on the ground who did their part 75 years ago. Thinking of renaming her Spitfire since there's less explanation involved...can't expect everyone to know what Bentley Priory was

Yes, I saw it yesterday day before yesterday. I really liked it. It will be my honor to destroy it some day.

I look forward to meeting you on the battlefield, vile Sith honorable sir.

You will regret experience. *glowers threateningly*

You have now earned the attention of Imperial Intelligence and efforts will be made to bring your insurrection to a swift demise.

Meanwhile, here is the story of the Imperial victories and the Rebellion's infamy of the Rainy Day tournament:

Following Caluula, Imperial Navy Presses Advantage

I'm naming my VSD pair as Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while ISD would potentially be among of these - Valkyrie, Tristan, Isolde or Lohengrin

While that MC Torpedo Frigate as Kitakami and Ooi

For RSD, I'm leaning towards Akizuki class or Shiratsuyu class and coloured according to KanColle colours

Meanwhile, here is the story of the Imperial victories and the Rebellion's infamy of the Rainy Day tournament:

Following Caluula, Imperial Navy Presses Advantage

My final match was won 6-4, but I suppose I should expect to be slandered by the Imperial press. Downplay my victories all you want--I will enjoy the look of surprise from the Imperial troops when I crush them and liberate the oppressed. Even now I am in secret negotiations with the Mon Calamari--my victories have convinced them to loan me an MC-80 class cruiser. Not sure what to name her yet. (Oops, not so secret anymore)

HNN prints nothing but the truth [especially when the errors are corrected].

That the Mon Calamari should throw in with the likes of you is disappointing, but unsurprising. Civilized species have legitimate systems of rule that allow the most gifted people - such as Emperor Palpatine - to rise to power through the consent of the governed. That the brutal rebellion must resort to violence and conflict to work out who should lead is barbaric, but that is what one should expect from undersea creatures like the Mon Calamari.

Putting an end to them will be a kindness to all concerned.

But to the point: these refitted luxury liners will not avail you against the power of the Imperial Navy and her Star Destroyers. I already have the destruction of one MC-80 under my belt. It would be satisfying if yours were the next, but I will crush any rebel when the opportunity arises.

Any objections to me calling my VSDs margarita, hawaiian and pepperoni?

Any objections to me calling my VSDs margarita, hawaiian and pepperoni?

From their crews maybe. You're just reminding them how long it's been since their last leave.

Any objections to me calling my VSDs margarita, hawaiian and pepperoni?

I guess that depends on what sort of atmosphere you're going for. Slapstick comedy certainly has its moments, but I think if one person is trying to 'feel' the Star Wars universe and the other person is cracking jokes, then you're essentially playing two different games.

My non-Paragon AFII is always the Colberica. I'm gonna need another name now that I will be unlikely to use the Paragon with Ackbar.

I think I will use Chimera for the Flag Ship ISD and find a couple other Thrawn trilogy ISD names for what I run with it since I doubt we will see a Chimera title and Thrawn make it into the game Unless we see an aces pack at some point but I am not sure how likely that is with Ep7+ coming out

I've already got the Adamant and the Tempest, they were Vics under Thrawn. However, I'm not going to take the Chimaera when I get an ISD, because, I'll be honest... I don't have Thrawn's Brilliance or even Paellons' dedication.

So it'll be one of the offsiders. Maybe the Death's Head or the Bellicose.

Mikael -- Yes! For reasons given above, if I use a title card, I tend to stick with that name.

ISD: Relentless. Untitled would be Warmaster.

Victories: Retribution, Judicator, & Executioner. Yes, I realize Thrawn had an ISD - 1 in his fleet named Judicator. That's probably where I stole the name from.

Gladiators: Oblivion, Gehenna, & Demolisher

Raiders: Corsarius & Reaver

Rebs:

MC-80: Home One

AF: New Dawn

Nebs: Yavaris, Salvation, & Redemption

Corvettes: Queen of Alderaan, Dodonna's Pride, & a third as yet unnamed.