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I saw a thread a while back where it seemed like the poster had names for almost every one of his marines. I thought this was a pretty cool idea and I'm considering doing something like this for my vehicles. The vehicle sprues come with a little banner that would do well for having a name written on it and glued somewhere on the front.

 

It seems like a lot of the Space Marine names and such are Latin, or something similar, and I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me confirm this and/or point me in a good direction of where I could begin such a task of naming my vehicles in a fluffy way.

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Well. there are a lot of ways you can name vehicles. Latin titles do indeed work, but of course regular english (consider to be "low gothic") and names work well. Like Nubes Sanguinea, a Storm Raven attached to the Sanguinary Guard, the Hammer of Baal, a Godhammer-pattern Land Raider, or Tragedy, a rhino transport of a unit of Death Company.
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I have names for all of the vehicles in my Word Bearers army. I have a Rhino called "The Old Faith" to imply its long service to the Legion and the faith its squad has in it to transport them safely into battle, but it also ties in to the WB's background. My Defiler is called the "soulforged" as a reeference to all those killed to make it. Looking at the background is always a great source of inspiration. Another route is to name it after a particular event in one of your games, for instance there was a guy on here asking for ideas for names for him Rhino which had killed a Carnifex by ramming it!

 

EDIT: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...t=0&start=0 Here's the topic!

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i come up with my names on the fly after i have gotten to know marines. for example i have a dreadnought named Steve the drunk. Steve normally stumbles around rolls triple ones and blows up. we even have this whole back story for him that we was drunk in a bar and they needed someone for the dreadnought and quickly threw him in before he could sober up and now he is in a constant state of drunk. so see what they do and how they work and they will get their own names good or bad
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I have a Stormraven called Blood Hammer and a LRC named Pride of Baal. I have been trying to name all of my squads and vehicles as well. I am using italian renaissance names for troops but have yet to come up with a naming system for my vehicles, other than whatever I happen to think of off the top of my head.
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Names of the Angels, Philosophers and Artist of old (western and eastern cultures mixed up) for squad sergeants (Gabriel, Leonardo, Khayyam, Avicenna, Raphael, Rhaseza, etc.) and Greek mythology references for vehicles (Hector, Achilles, Apollo, etc.) ;)
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My Landraider Crusader is called 'Pride of Baal' too. The Razorback is Devastatrix (female devastator). Others are variations on the '...of Baal' theme. Dan Abnett names all tanks individually in his Gaunt's Ghosts series, many with slogan names like the minds in Ian Bank's Culture novels which I think works very well.
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I have considered the same idea. So far I got lucky and found a site with angelic names. It's in my signature. Not all are equally "good" or "epic" sounding. Perhaps some could be useful. :rolleyes:

 

Not complete either, they seem to have missed the Angel of Thursday! ;)

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