Julian Gollop
David Braben
Ian Bell
Jake Solomon
If I end up with female soldiers, Jade Raymond springs to mind.
Julian Gollop
David Braben
Ian Bell
Jake Solomon
If I end up with female soldiers, Jade Raymond springs to mind.
Tinky Winky
Dipsy
Laa-Laa
Po
Creepy aliens killing creepy aliens, what's not to like?
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Inky
Blinky
Pinky
Clyde
(If you get the reference you're welcome.)
Cheshire
March Hare
Humpty
Dumpty
I like the way the devs seem to have a meme about suggesting players, in each interview I've seen, to name their soldiers after friends and family members. It shows well they are fans of the original XCOM games since we probaby all did it back then (at least, I know I did).
So, I'll just do that and name my soldiers after my real world army squadmates. It has the advantage of making it personal when a muton horribly smash your best buddies to pieces!![]()
Laser
Blazer
Taser
Steve "The Pirate"
If you can dodge a plasma bolt, you can dodge a ball. If you can dodge a blaster bomb, you can dodge a ball. If you can dodge a charging Chryssalid, you can dodge a ball.
Inni, mini, miny, moo.
I usually think of these threads as cheesey, and never reply.. but heck, we have 6 months to kill so why not.
Acutally, I am also replying because I came up with the perfect names for my first 4 squaddies and I'm really excited about it !
Gen_Pho
Gazz
Inkidu
Katscan
the next two followups will be
SectoidSquisher
Brian Damage
I will let you guys know how you do. Unfortunately, I can tell you right now not all of you will come back home after the first mission. Although I think I have a better chance than the rest of you because, guess what? Inkidu is on point and my ass is in the rear !
Isn't everyone's ass in the rear?
Ba-dum-tish!
Laugh it up, Brian. Laugh it up. Guess who's on point now if something happens to Inkidu ..
I'll bet our squad motto is "Exercitus est sicut stercus gallinaceum. Quam potest relinquo?"...
Larry, Curly, Moe, Shemp.
J/k.
Doubt I'll even bother with the first squad or three since I'll restart the game repeatedly while learning and experimenting.
Lavernus Tucker, Leonard Church, Michael J Caboose, and Frank DuFresne.
Cuz I'm a sucker for Red Vs Blue![]()
Mine depends if I'm gonna play it classic mode, then I probably wont name them, if I'm going with my favorite train-5-guys-into-elite-squad-then-win-the-game mode: my family, if I'm doing the terminator soldier thing (one maniac with 100 accuracy, 100 Health, 80 Psi energy, 65 psi attack and 75 Psi defense) I have a special name for him: ErazemPredjamski![]()
Hehe.. people lining up to get shot up. I should put money on which forum member gets killed by a berserker first.
I always name them after their strengths:
James Snipper, Heavy D., B-Man, Chuck Norris.
Hurm... I think I'm going to go niche with the names of my first squad:
Edmund Blackadder
S. Baldrick
George Colehurst St. Barleigh (Or just George Barleigh, if need be)
Kevin Darling
Alternative names:
Melchett
Nursey
Queenie
Bob Parkhurst
Lord Flashheart...
And that's enough.
Death Daisy
Immanuel Kant
Boggy B
Ciaphas Cain
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There are enough active people on these forums that I can just pull their names for my squad, heh. I wonder how many of us will be still 'active' after the game is released. I, for one, will probably not be around for the first couple weeks since I don't want to see any spoilers. That's going to be hard tho, since I'm watching all the podcasts and interviews.
I think I'll just play a game with Katscan the assault soldier and see how far you get on your own.
Name 'em? I never name em. Even the most highly trained operative is expendable, and I'll be too attached to the little buggers if I named them...
Actually never named them too.
Probably should have tried...
What are the consequences?
Well you could always give them code numbers, like gunner 41256 / HW
first four (Most likely)
Plasma Eater
Longshot
Rodeo
Hotshot
James 'Sarge' Logan
Gillian 'Jade' Sinclaire
William 'Amra' Lioncourt
Dwayne 'Headshot' Johnson
Sorry to bring this old ass thread back, but the title is still relevant, and it brings back old memories.
Where the hell did Brian Damage ever go ?!
I might actually pick names from that thread where everyone told where they're from and what type of soldier they preferred to be.