Re: Ship Naming Convention
From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:35:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Ship Naming Convention
>
>> As for ship names; I tend to use a weird blend of USN and RN naming
>> traditions. If a ship class is named after people, I tend to use the
names
>> of people I know, which leads to weird situations where a friend I'm
>> playing against proceeds to blow his namesake out of space. (8-)
>Just to add my two penn'orth, I have a friend / opponent (depends on
>who's winning) who has named his fleet after various curries. The
>largest ships get named after the most potent dishes - thus
>you have the BattleDreadnought 'Vindaloo', the Fleet Carrier 'Phal',
>the Frigate 'Bhaji' and so on. After sixty or so ships, he's running
>out of names. AFAIK his fleet doesn't repeat on you the next day,
>however.
>
>Tony Francis
We've been saving these for when we do the New Indian Republic fleet....
:)
Jon (GZG)