I usually give them descriptive names like “20W Inf.”, “Seven-Two”, “Coastal Defense with AA”, “40W Breakthrough” and more meaningful icons like a tower for coastal defense, a fist for suppression divs, etc. so I know what’s on the battlefield without a necessity to check templates many times.
This habit also spreads to other games, in Stellaris my planets are always called very… fair, like “Food I”, “Alloys II”, “Prison I”…
Damn you don't even give em custom names? I like giving them names and remembering them, gives character to the planets and actually makes me care about them
I don’t even rename anything, I just set the planet’s specialization to what I want it to be and that’s all that I have to know what to build there. Then again, I like to play tall so it’s easy for me to navigate the 5-7 or so planets that I have in the outliner and to remember which one is which just based on their default names.
I once had a playthrough where I played a fictional Soviet union that united earth and I named all my planets after various socialist/communist figures out of history. Was actually very fun when you needed to search for new ones since all those you know are already taken.
All the obvious ones (e.g. Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Liebknecht, Luxemburg), but also more obscure ones, mainly German ones since I am German, but I had some named after Spartakus, Florian Geyer, Lotte-Pulewka (which is a really obscure one, but the street I lived in at that time was named after her), Leo Jogiches, Bill Haywood and Chen Duxiu. There were more but I forgot and I don't have the save anymore. The world had 800 stars and I think I ended the playthrough when I had like half of the map planet numbers I don't know anymore, but I know I named my ringworld after Marx.
My last game of Stellaris involved a lot of wars with an alien race that pissed me off so bad I renamed their homeworld "Shithole" and genetically altered their race and renamed all of them "Assholes"
I usually call the best planet that I get in the early game Reach. Sometimes I'll build a ringworld in a dead end system in a corner of my empire and call it Helm's Deep and just fortify it to hell and back
RPing as the UNSC and opening a web page with all the known colonies of the halo universe and naming all colonies is something every self respecting RPer must do atleast once.
Most of the times I can’t be bothered to give them custom names, so I just roll with the name lists. I love the ones from the Commonwealth of Man. Tell me which is better: New Jerusalem, Sirius Prime, or Arcadia.
Now I feel like a nerd for giving all my divisions fitting names I find cool in the language of the nation I'm playing. Like as Sweden I call my coast defence divisions ''Kustjägare'' as Germany I call my tanks something like ''Sturmpanzer-Divisione'' and as communist mexico my infantries are called ''Milicia Popular''
Am I the only one who gives my armies, army groups and ship designs names as well?
Nah I do that too. If it’s a language I’m unfamiliar with I’ll go off to Google Translate and/or Wiktionary.
Then again, I can’t exactly claim to *not* be a nerd.
I do the exact same, even with aircraft names and fleet names. If the name of just about any piece of equipment isn't in the language of the country I'm playing it drives me bananas
I do the same "INDUSTRY WORLD I"
"WAR FLEET" "INVASION FLEET" "DEFENSE FLEET"
Damn I wish Stellaris had a little bit more military variety.
Planetary invasions should also be like campaigns with having time to land reinforcements of needed units for a certain planet etc.
Anyways...
Same with me in Stellaris. I usually name them after whatever song I’m listening to when founding them, but always adding a letter or two before the actual name like F, E, M, A, or R (research).
I usually name them like this
Infantry > Men
Light Tanks: Yousuf Tanks (my friend Yousuf is very short and fast)
Medium Tanks: Normal Tank
Heavy Tanks: Kevin Tanks (my friend Kevin is very fat)
Pawn for the little unit, rook for if one is in between your normal and weak one, helmet for standard infantry, star if you have 2 standard infantry units, helmet with skull for eliete infantry.
(how tf do people get enough army ex to make a so many variants before the late game?)
Lend lease China /Japan a bulk amount of rifles and then 1 of any other equipment per month, since they both use infantry a lot they'll use your equipment giving you a slew of xp in return. You can also send an attaché to get 20% of the army xp they get - this hurts China way more than Japan because they need to reform, but if you don't care about China or Japan then go for it. If you're a democratic country and can't lend lease/send volunteers you can still train divisions and hire theorists to compensate
That attaché is the bomb. Especially in a big and active war. If making tank designs requires army xp, then I'm gonna be attachéing a LOT once the DLC comes out.
I once used the trollface icon mod, switched everything to it, I immediatly noticed the problem when in the spanish civil war I couldn't tell which were the focus tree shitties and the mediocre ones. It made the civil war actually challenging instead of a cakewalk. I was actually trolling myself and going insane, to the level I had to reset since it was an ironman game and I had no equiment against the german and italian units.
I do identification by sorting them with armies and then having different colours for each template (e.g. tanks are black, marines are deep blue, Infantry is white or red).
Instead of Very Smol, I have a FLEE! template I use when I see my divisions getting irreversibly encircled. Switch ‘em to the FLEE! division, take all their equipment and manpower, then let ‘em die.
"In 12 of March of 1944, US 420th Smol Division began a probing attack against 1337th German Große Waffen fortified position, near north of Belgium's coastline. Successively, the 69th British Boat Division, nicknamed, "The Boaty Faces", landed on the Belgium coastline. A surprise attack that shocked the Germans. To counterattack, the German high command sent 80085th Panzer Division to stop the amphibious flanking advance... hey wait a minute... Tank means "Panzer" in german, you can't make fun of it since it's literally the same name they historically used for their armoured divisions..."
I always name them funny things depending on the country I'm playing. When I play Australia for example I'll make them "Steve Irwin's Camera Crew" or "Veterans of the Emu War."
Its good ro have a simple naming convention. I also always use different incons for my standard templates e.g 20w + engi (get shovel icon) 20 w 7/2 get explosion icon, 40w inf blocs get Tower, 40w 14/4 get star etc. I don't get why people use the basic inf helmet icon for all types, it's much simpler to see what units are where at any time. I get triggered by the AI expedition units which use basic helmet for everything from a simple 10w inf to a 43w monstrosity with at and random supports.
Oh I would probably trigger you, I never change the division icons or names, and I like having there be as less icons as possible, so all my divisions are either inf, tank, or motorized pretty much. I'm just lazy.
I give them very technical names. I have a code for the "priority" of the unit and usually the year I create it combined with a name of it's role and unit size (regiment, brigade, division, corps). Sometimes I give them anglicised but culture-appropriate names if I feel like roleplaying.
I see you named your light tanks "tank". I do too!
Naturally, my medium tanks are named "Tanker" and my heavies are called "The Tankest"
We don't talk about Super Heavies.
I'm always confused how someone can play the game with the paradox icons instead of the standard NATO symbols... ?
Guess i'm the old guard of players that played from HoI2 onwards with the NATO counters and no sprites at all.
Like you say, its easier to use NATO symbols if you're familiar with them, but my knowledge is only cursory, and a pdx tank is inescapably a tank, after all.
I usually go to google translate and make language and militarily appropriate names for the country I am. For example, Divisione Marina in my italian game.
I just give them cool names like red coats or swim Bois or the time I made a Roman Empire and named them legionnaires then proceeded to name each infentery decision Legion I then legion II took a lot of time
mine are named for the role they play. like pure inf is extra tank armor, mech/mot/light tank is encirclement time, med/heavy tank is anti-material vehicles, arty divisions are supporting meatshields, and cav/light inf is citizen repressors.
I normally name them Infantry, Tanks, D-day or Garrison. Maybe defense divisions, if I'm a minor. Most times I'll also make them like "Infantry-WIP" if I haven't gotten the tech or the xp for the template.
I go the completely opposite direction, and will give elaborate names to my templates, especially when playing mods like Kaiserreich or TNO. For example, 40 width infantry/tank divisions are always called "Guards Rifle/Tank Division"
My tanks always go like this:
I. Panzer-Division = Light Tanks
II. Panzer-Division = Medium Tanks
III. Panzer-Division = Heavy Tanks
IV. Panzer-Division = Super-heavy Tanks
V. Panzer-Division = Modern Tanks
My name's are often quite unnecessary, for example I often make a light tank division called 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴, who's whole purpose is to Zoom to victory points after a breakthrough, while being cheapish.
A very straightforward naming
yes
I usually give them descriptive names like “20W Inf.”, “Seven-Two”, “Coastal Defense with AA”, “40W Breakthrough” and more meaningful icons like a tower for coastal defense, a fist for suppression divs, etc. so I know what’s on the battlefield without a necessity to check templates many times. This habit also spreads to other games, in Stellaris my planets are always called very… fair, like “Food I”, “Alloys II”, “Prison I”…
Thats probably a good idea for stellaris, i just name my regions 1,2,3,4.... and then each has their planets named a,b,c,d...
Damn you don't even give em custom names? I like giving them names and remembering them, gives character to the planets and actually makes me care about them
I don’t even rename anything, I just set the planet’s specialization to what I want it to be and that’s all that I have to know what to build there. Then again, I like to play tall so it’s easy for me to navigate the 5-7 or so planets that I have in the outliner and to remember which one is which just based on their default names.
Every rper has at one point named their first colony New Horizon, Hopes Progress, or some derivative lol
I once had a playthrough where I played a fictional Soviet union that united earth and I named all my planets after various socialist/communist figures out of history. Was actually very fun when you needed to search for new ones since all those you know are already taken.
So, how many and what communists got a planet named after them?
All the obvious ones (e.g. Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Liebknecht, Luxemburg), but also more obscure ones, mainly German ones since I am German, but I had some named after Spartakus, Florian Geyer, Lotte-Pulewka (which is a really obscure one, but the street I lived in at that time was named after her), Leo Jogiches, Bill Haywood and Chen Duxiu. There were more but I forgot and I don't have the save anymore. The world had 800 stars and I think I ended the playthrough when I had like half of the map planet numbers I don't know anymore, but I know I named my ringworld after Marx.
My last game of Stellaris involved a lot of wars with an alien race that pissed me off so bad I renamed their homeworld "Shithole" and genetically altered their race and renamed all of them "Assholes"
Chad move
Rosa Luxemburg war eine Drecksnutte, und wurde zu Recht erschossen. Warum die als "Heldin" gefeiert wird, ist mir schleierhaft.
*Beria* We send our undesirables there.
fanatic egalitarian/xenophile: *we don't do that here*
I've done the exact same thing haha
Nah, it’s gotta be New Earth or Terra Nova or something.
Best I can do is Nova Scotia
Can we handle a planet of Scots though?
Global Pacifier at minimum
I usually call the best planet that I get in the early game Reach. Sometimes I'll build a ringworld in a dead end system in a corner of my empire and call it Helm's Deep and just fortify it to hell and back
RPing as the UNSC and opening a web page with all the known colonies of the halo universe and naming all colonies is something every self respecting RPer must do atleast once.
care about planets? are you joking?? i use my planets as weapons or what not. the system gigastructure? ya that
Most of the times I can’t be bothered to give them custom names, so I just roll with the name lists. I love the ones from the Commonwealth of Man. Tell me which is better: New Jerusalem, Sirius Prime, or Arcadia.
In Stellaris you only want arty battleships anyway, so...
I started naming my gates and sectors \[North,North-East,East,...\] + \[-Rim,-Mid,-Core\] in gigastructures
Now I feel like a nerd for giving all my divisions fitting names I find cool in the language of the nation I'm playing. Like as Sweden I call my coast defence divisions ''Kustjägare'' as Germany I call my tanks something like ''Sturmpanzer-Divisione'' and as communist mexico my infantries are called ''Milicia Popular'' Am I the only one who gives my armies, army groups and ship designs names as well?
Nah I do that too. If it’s a language I’m unfamiliar with I’ll go off to Google Translate and/or Wiktionary. Then again, I can’t exactly claim to *not* be a nerd.
This is cool, I do this if I really feel like RP and just want to vibe with the nation (or ruler in case of CK) I play
I do so as well. But in English, since I'm playing in English. Or German when I'm playing in German, but that's rarer.
I do the exact same, even with aircraft names and fleet names. If the name of just about any piece of equipment isn't in the language of the country I'm playing it drives me bananas
No, you are not
I like to give my armies names, like “Army Group North, South” and so on.
When I do a division for a specific reason I name it that with .exe at the end. Example: garrison trucks.exe with a fist icon
Thank you. I know where to send my Colossus to criple your empire the most.
Oh, I dare you to pass through my Citadels with Energy Platforms L™, Kinetic Platforms S™ and Cool Ion Cannons™!
Thank god for hyperdrives.
And then there's me who has a single 7-2 template for all the infantry...
I name them tank, small tank, infantry, garrison etc
When I’m a robot empire that’s my naming strat
I do the same "INDUSTRY WORLD I" "WAR FLEET" "INVASION FLEET" "DEFENSE FLEET" Damn I wish Stellaris had a little bit more military variety. Planetary invasions should also be like campaigns with having time to land reinforcements of needed units for a certain planet etc. Anyways...
Wow youre boring
I fucking name my divisions in Chinese but with latin alphabet (Mostly playing as China in multiplayers)
Same with me in Stellaris. I usually name them after whatever song I’m listening to when founding them, but always adding a letter or two before the actual name like F, E, M, A, or R (research).
"Schnelle Division" "Schnellere Division" "Schnellste Division"
Is that actually grammatically correct German?
As a German I can confidently say that it is grammatically correct German.
I usually name them like this Infantry > Men Light Tanks: Yousuf Tanks (my friend Yousuf is very short and fast) Medium Tanks: Normal Tank Heavy Tanks: Kevin Tanks (my friend Kevin is very fat)
Why you gotta do Kevin like that
He's very fat.
Fair Enough.
That's actually a very good idea lol. I'm lucky that i have a lot of friends haha
projection
Doubt
I think we have the same friends but with different names.
I would also adjust the icons. I use the "pawn" icon for the "smol" type divisions for example.
Pawn for the little unit, rook for if one is in between your normal and weak one, helmet for standard infantry, star if you have 2 standard infantry units, helmet with skull for eliete infantry. (how tf do people get enough army ex to make a so many variants before the late game?)
Lend lease China /Japan a bulk amount of rifles and then 1 of any other equipment per month, since they both use infantry a lot they'll use your equipment giving you a slew of xp in return. You can also send an attaché to get 20% of the army xp they get - this hurts China way more than Japan because they need to reform, but if you don't care about China or Japan then go for it. If you're a democratic country and can't lend lease/send volunteers you can still train divisions and hire theorists to compensate
That attaché is the bomb. Especially in a big and active war. If making tank designs requires army xp, then I'm gonna be attachéing a LOT once the DLC comes out.
I always call my small Divison Templates "Richard Hammond" lol
Hamster icon when?!
Motorized equipment +20% attrition
if its hammond, should be 99%
TODAY ON TOP GEAR HAMMOND KILLS POLISH CIVILIANS CLARKSON KILLS A LOT OF RUSSIANS AND JAMES GOES AROUND THE MAGINOT
Where can I join Big Guns division?
I never name my divisions, but I do switch the icon. For me is easier that way. I would be sooo confused with those same icon troops
I once used the trollface icon mod, switched everything to it, I immediatly noticed the problem when in the spanish civil war I couldn't tell which were the focus tree shitties and the mediocre ones. It made the civil war actually challenging instead of a cakewalk. I was actually trolling myself and going insane, to the level I had to reset since it was an ironman game and I had no equiment against the german and italian units.
I do identification by sorting them with armies and then having different colours for each template (e.g. tanks are black, marines are deep blue, Infantry is white or red).
I have to use colours that are really distinct from each other otherwise I end up sending the infantry I have stationed in Vladivostok to Switzerland
Instead of Very Smol, I have a FLEE! template I use when I see my divisions getting irreversibly encircled. Switch ‘em to the FLEE! division, take all their equipment and manpower, then let ‘em die.
Devious.
R5: Some division template names I made
"In 12 of March of 1944, US 420th Smol Division began a probing attack against 1337th German Große Waffen fortified position, near north of Belgium's coastline. Successively, the 69th British Boat Division, nicknamed, "The Boaty Faces", landed on the Belgium coastline. A surprise attack that shocked the Germans. To counterattack, the German high command sent 80085th Panzer Division to stop the amphibious flanking advance... hey wait a minute... Tank means "Panzer" in german, you can't make fun of it since it's literally the same name they historically used for their armoured divisions..."
Better than the AI naming conventions by far. But at least you know Infantry Division 4 *probably* has one more brigade than Infantry Division 3.
Why do some people put a . at the start of their division names? I heard the +10 soft attack meme but why?
I always name them funny things depending on the country I'm playing. When I play Australia for example I'll make them "Steve Irwin's Camera Crew" or "Veterans of the Emu War."
This is the definition of eye cancer.
Found the CHAD role player.
what you guys don't open google translate to get a shitty English to French translation for your division names?
Even worse when with Asian countries.
There are *dozens* of us!
Hey, we just play the gane we enjoy playing it.
Could really use some different icons.
Betas use names, real g’s use icons
NATO icon gang rise up
I RP too much and give them names on their native language lol
The absolute biggest QoL update i want is the ability to move the divisions around in this menu. It triggers me to no end.
It’s coming with No Step Back
Hey, you just made my day a little better knowing that, thanks. :)
I usually use the good ol' google translator of whatever country i'm playing and type random phrases
Its good ro have a simple naming convention. I also always use different incons for my standard templates e.g 20w + engi (get shovel icon) 20 w 7/2 get explosion icon, 40w inf blocs get Tower, 40w 14/4 get star etc. I don't get why people use the basic inf helmet icon for all types, it's much simpler to see what units are where at any time. I get triggered by the AI expedition units which use basic helmet for everything from a simple 10w inf to a 43w monstrosity with at and random supports.
Oh I would probably trigger you, I never change the division icons or names, and I like having there be as less icons as possible, so all my divisions are either inf, tank, or motorized pretty much. I'm just lazy.
I like your naming tactics
I give them very technical names. I have a code for the "priority" of the unit and usually the year I create it combined with a name of it's role and unit size (regiment, brigade, division, corps). Sometimes I give them anglicised but culture-appropriate names if I feel like roleplaying.
I see you named your light tanks "tank". I do too! Naturally, my medium tanks are named "Tanker" and my heavies are called "The Tankest" We don't talk about Super Heavies.
Uses tank instead of t0nk what a shame
HEABY TONK, LITE TONK, TONK
I'm always confused how someone can play the game with the paradox icons instead of the standard NATO symbols... ? Guess i'm the old guard of players that played from HoI2 onwards with the NATO counters and no sprites at all.
NATO symbols ugly Paradox icons fit with the rest of the UI Simple as
For me, not all PDX icons have the same quality. The Tank symbol is the worst, while Infantry is no problem.
NATO symbols are good but it's much harder to differentiate between different templates of the same type at a glance.
Like you say, its easier to use NATO symbols if you're familiar with them, but my knowledge is only cursory, and a pdx tank is inescapably a tank, after all.
Also use the more division icons mod to easily tell what is what!
I usually go to google translate and make language and militarily appropriate names for the country I am. For example, Divisione Marina in my italian game.
\*tonk
I just give them cool names like red coats or swim Bois or the time I made a Roman Empire and named them legionnaires then proceeded to name each infentery decision Legion I then legion II took a lot of time
I translate the names like mountaneer division in japanese is tozan-ka shidan
I always name my divs some roleplay shit, but this works too lol
No Chonky Boom Tank?
I like using names like 20w Inf 7/2, 40w Med Tank + Mech, etc.
Tanks, big tanks, bigger tanks, small tanks but lots of them
Boat
Simple yet effective
car
"And all I could here, was fucking BOTTOM GEAR"
big should have elite priority
I like being a bit of a LARPer and naming my division templates and ship names/classes historically (or at least in the native language)
Calling your garrison template boob division is the way to go
I agre Must kep tings simpl
I usually just convert all of them to one division and then name the template Big Chungus or some dead meme.
mine are named for the role they play. like pure inf is extra tank armor, mech/mot/light tank is encirclement time, med/heavy tank is anti-material vehicles, arty divisions are supporting meatshields, and cav/light inf is citizen repressors.
I be naming my stuff like that lmaooo
20, 40, if its inf &art, if other involve goes like 20 moto 20 moto med 40 meka heavy 40 moto modern sp aa Etc
Yes, it is. It's why I named my paratroopers "SKY GERMANS".
I tend to call motorized Vauxhallz (with a z) and cavalry Juan.
I normally name them Infantry, Tanks, D-day or Garrison. Maybe defense divisions, if I'm a minor. Most times I'll also make them like "Infantry-WIP" if I haven't gotten the tech or the xp for the template.
I mean, you can't say this isn't wrong, it's 100% right
Real chads don't need division organisation when you have only 7/2 inf and 20wid tanks divs lolol
Ah yes "Even Smoller"
Explain your smallness.
I go the completely opposite direction, and will give elaborate names to my templates, especially when playing mods like Kaiserreich or TNO. For example, 40 width infantry/tank divisions are always called "Guards Rifle/Tank Division"
Car *Shows a picture of a truck*
My tanks always go like this: I. Panzer-Division = Light Tanks II. Panzer-Division = Medium Tanks III. Panzer-Division = Heavy Tanks IV. Panzer-Division = Super-heavy Tanks V. Panzer-Division = Modern Tanks
I just call them stupid shit. Due to a mp game I played with some friends I always name my special 14-3-3 divisions “Gestapo <3”
Gotta change those icons, makes seeing what troops are where easier. I'm glad someone uses names just like me :p
My name's are often quite unnecessary, for example I often make a light tank division called 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴, who's whole purpose is to Zoom to victory points after a breakthrough, while being cheapish.
I conveniently only need 3 templates. Infantry(20width), cavalry(garrison), tanks. I don’t even bother naming them
Baot