renaming of armies, squadrons and fleets/ pick your title when you pick a nation.

Zappap · Aug 9th 2015, 12:36pm

Maybe it is already there and I just have not figured out how yet. But I would very much like to have the ability to name my fleets and armies. I played a strategy game named "victoria" and I loved that feature. Have a Baltic Fleet a High Seas Fleet, etc... Name your armies Army of the Rhine, 9th Legion or whatever. Picking your title would also be good as well. No more PM or minister chairman if you don't want. Why wasnt Czar used for Russian Empire? You gave them the flag and the Russian Empire name. I don't think they would liked the communist title for their leader.
I like that you gave us the right to name battleships. I was very happy to see in the newspaper the name of my battleship mentioned for sinking an enemy ship. The paper would be a great place to read your named armies victories. As it is now just some random 34th anti tank captured minsk. OK just a thought of mine. thanks

comrade dave · Aug 9th 2015, 4:26pm

It's a very debated topic, most people, me included, like it. Others feel it isn't necessary because it would be a waste of time. There are also lots of threads concerning this so you might get the same response as the others have. I've played Victoria too but the lack of a tutorial made it really hard for me to work out.

Butter Ball Bill · Aug 9th 2015, 7:22pm

Most of us support this idea. When I started up this thread, it got support from everyone except Sandevot.

TankBuster · Aug 9th 2015, 8:23pm

I've always wanted to name things, for tactical and RP reasons (first strike fleet/7th panzer- because based Rommel)

I will always support this idea. Always.

Loningen · Aug 9th 2015, 10:59pm

I feel the renaming of units should be exclusive to select units (high-cost units / key units), such as Battleships, Railguns, and Aircraft Carriers.

Renaming units should be limited to it's scarcity and difficulty to produce a unit.

Too many naming conventions (names) for smaller units would devalue the presence of the larger key units.

Butter Ball Bill · Aug 9th 2015, 11:01pm

Nope. We should be able to name any unit we want. I want to have my own Hell Legions, JG/52 and Big Red One. We can already name the BB and RG anyway.

Sir McSquiggles · Aug 10th 2015, 2:34am

I think being able to name armies would be a great idea. Im always trying to name my battleships and nukes. My favorite name is "The Squiggler". I would love to come up with different names for my armies.

TankBuster · Aug 10th 2015, 9:43am

I can think of several names for Divs. "Wiking" being the first that comes into mind.

The only issue that I've never seen anyone address, is the simple how would you name a div? Is it when it reaches a certain count? Do you name it when you feel like it?

Butter Ball Bill · Aug 10th 2015, 10:32am

When you feel like it. Look for my thread about it, we thoroughly discussed it there.

Sir McSquiggles · Aug 10th 2015, 7:43pm

I can imagine that when you click on a unit you could be able to name it. Like 20th tank division, you could turn into blah blah blah.

Jaws · Aug 12th 2015, 3:35pm

More information for the already overloaded server systems to handle...excellent.

Also far too much scope for abuse.

TankBuster · Aug 13th 2015, 10:27am

Jaws wrote:

More information for the already overloaded server systems to handle...excellent.

Also far too much scope for abuse.

Nobody is saying you need to do it now, or in the very near future.

Several units in this game have 'scope' for abuse, but this topic has came up in S1914 and now, CoW. The type of abuse I believe you're thinking of (calling things 'Hitler/cursewords/racist things') would be done by a minority of players, mostly either in private games with friends where no can get offended, or even if done in a public game, they'd be quickly reported and removed.

Butter Ball Bill · Aug 13th 2015, 11:49am

I know in my own private S1914 I like to call my BB and RG stuff like Big B**** and stuff like that but not in public games.

mio123 · Aug 13th 2015, 8:04pm

as a player of victoria -II- I can tell you that the titl system is different than CoW, in Victoria II it's much complicated,much differnet, and very interesting,to change title in victoria many other thinks will change also or will be needed to change it, in CoW it's not the same thing, also naming your troups is an amazing thing in Victoria but again, in victoria names and troops number are in reation with multiple factors which will be difficult to implant in CoW, giving names to ships is not interesting (sorry) because in the tech tree you already have the names (classe Bismarck-Tiger...) so no need to name them

Butter Ball Bill · Aug 13th 2015, 8:11pm

mio123 wrote:

in the tech tree you already have the names

Wrong. Those are classes of ships. You can have one type of ship that has given it's form to, say, 6 ships. All those ships will have different names.

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