Do you name your ships?

[OHgamer]

I not only name my ships, I name my divisions too. If playing a multi-ethnic country, I'm even willing to go through and add a 1 or 2 letter code to indicate the culture of the division

As Scandinavia, I use S for Swedish, N for Norwegian, D for Danish, F for Finnish and G for German.

I don't with the ships, though I do tend to rename army units, especially if I am playing a colonial nation like the UK and have large numbers of colonial armies, helps me keep track of which armies I need to put leaders who have + reliability with.

I do tend to rename fleets i groups ships in though - generally after their home port. So Cape Fleet, Caribbean Fleet, Australian Fleet, Ceylon Fleet etc. Makes it easy to know what part of the world trouble may be lurking in.

 

[ComradeOm]

My armies (not divisions!) I tend to give generic names (Army of the Levant, Esercito Lombardy, etc) but I draw the line at divisions. I tend to do the same, though less proactively, with my fleets but have never even thought of renaming ships. The last thing I need is more micromanagement

 

[CSABadass]

Yes, but I've done it by fixing the names in the Unitnames file, since Paradox didn't update it when they released Revolutions.

- j

Feel free to borrow the one from my mod (by way of VIP):

 

[unmerged(17791)]

In my current game as Britain I see no reason to rename the ships, since you practically can't beat the default names. In fact, even when I play as other nations I sometimes borrow the British names, translated into German (or whatever) as necessary.

But my squadron names, I get creative. 'Task Force Kraut Killer', 'Bane of the British Behemoth', 'Long Arm of Uncle Sam', 'I want YOU... at the bottom of the Pacific', etc.

 

[robou]

In my current game as Britain I see no reason to rename the ships, since you practically can't beat the default names.

but when you start building large ammounts of ships....it dosent look nice having '2nd FR Squadron' or '12th PDN Squadron'
much better to name

 

[Tempelridderen]

My armies (not divisions!) I tend to give generic names (Army of the Levant, Esercito Lombardy, etc) but I draw the line at divisions. I tend to do the same, though less proactively, with my fleets but have never even thought of renaming ships. The last thing I need is more micromanagement

Well.. Let's say you play a really small country with few divisions, like Luxembourg... Then every division is carefully micro-managed to ensure its well being!

 

[Dysken]

I not only name my ships, I name my divisions too. If playing a multi-ethnic country, I'm even willing to go through and add a 1 or 2 letter code to indicate the culture of the division

As Scandinavia, I use S for Swedish, N for Norwegian, D for Danish, F for Finnish and G for German.

That's really clever! I can actually see that being put to good use and all because of the culture bonus for occupying. Especially if you're playing Scandinavia/Austria Hungary or France.

 

[Kagernaut]

Too many ships, so no I don't name them lol, that would take an extra two hours.

Its not worth having ships unless you can beat the UK or France with them IMO, so I usually have too many to name.

I might do it once in awhile though, to experienced ships.