Name personalization?

[Darren J Pierson]

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?

[Vergeltungswaffe]

I dub thee Pvt Darren J Pierson. Now take point and find that machinegun.

:D

[Darren J Pierson]

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.

[Madmatt]

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

[Darren J Pierson]

Which of course begs the question, will you consider adding some more names to the common national name database?

[Steiner14]

Hopefully the german names will be real german names and not such a bad joke like in CM.

[Madmatt]

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

[Steiner14]

Then maybe CDV changed the names? The usual german names are not there.

[ParaBellum]

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.

[Steiner14]

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

[Darren J Pierson]

Can you give some example of the bad joke names? I'm just curious.

[ParaBellum]

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.

[Steiner14]

Anglen, Anhalt, Belin, Blauvelt, Bögenschutz, Bott, Braunstein, Cränen, Dank, Edelstein, Eichhorn, Essen, Euling, Feldmann, Fell, Freitag, Gaschler, Gelband, Gres, Greup, Grow, Hamblen, Handschein,...

[Canuck]

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!

[ParaBellum]

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...

:D

[ July 29, 2006, 05:16 PM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ]

[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.

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.

[Darren J Pierson]

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. smile.gif

[MorgTzu]

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.

[Bil Hardenberger]

Originally posted by ParaBellum:
[QB] ...Ah, and a Unt Orosz and a Lt.Hardenberger... ;) Ha! I knew I outranked Rune! tongue.gif

[RMC]

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.

[Michael Dorosh]

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>[/QUOTE]I humbly stand corrected...

[Bluefish]

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>[/QUOTE]Damn! That might be be one of the best instances of grogery that I've ever seen!

[ParaBellum]

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! tongue.gif </font>[/QUOTE]Unfortunately, you died in round 3. Direct hit by a 105mm grenade. Sorry.

[kabex]

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).

[CoolColJ]

It would be nice if you could just click on a name and change it if you wanted to

[Oberst Greup]

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.
I beg to differ. Greup is the fondly remebered 10-3 Oberst from the original Squad Leader game. After honoring his memory with taking up his name as my nick (yeah, I'm a bit pretentious) I realized that most real-world Greups are in fact dutch rather than german.

What was that lousy 6+1 leader's name again? Have to dig out my SL counters from the attic.

EDIT: Ooops, should have read the entire thread before commenting... Rosenberg.. + the romanians had a 6+1 leader as well, didn't they?

[ July 30, 2006, 04:32 PM: Message edited by: Oberst Greup ]