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Indreams:
My list will be shorter since I haven't named ships that I don't frequently fly (Squid and Junker).

Galleon: Brackenridge
Named in honor of Hugh Henry Brackenridge, author of Modern Chivalry. It's a less known book. Think of it as an American version of Don Quixote. I personally want Brackenridge to replace Hawthorne in American High School curriculums. They are both pre-bellum (pre-American Civil War) authors. They both represent American imagination. One is a Don Quixote and other is a Soap Opera. I have made my point.

Goldfish: Tiger Moth
I'm a big fan of Studio Ghibli. Their depictions of Airships in Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky and Howl's Moving Castle were one of the influences that makes me love GOIO. So, I had to name my Goldfish in reference. But I'm afraid only hardcore fans of Studio Ghibli will get my reference...

Pyramidion: Hawkbit
Hawkbit is one of the rabbits in the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams. I had previously named my Pyramidion "Hawk", but that seemed cheesy and short. So I added -bit to make it Hawkbit. I think the name matches how I play my Pyramidion: dive in like a hawk, bite, and never let go.

Mobula: Coyote
Mobula is the one ship you have to paint. I painted it Maroon, which happens to be my school color. Our school mascot is a Coyote (pronounced ka-yot because ka-yo-ty doesn't fit into our school song), so I decided to name it Coyote. Oh, and I painted my ship Maroon because its one of the harder colors to see on certain maps. I'd use Zebra Stripes and name my ship "Zebra" if I could.

Spire: Tower
No other reason than I've heard that the Spire was named Tower in the beta. Seriously, no other reasons.


I love some of you guys' names. I might steal "Praise the Sun" and "Bunker". I'll just name my Squid and Junker "Praise the Moon" and "Sunker" or something... Actually, "Sunker" sounds pretty neat... *logs on to GOIO*

Dementio:

--- Quote from: Indreams on January 03, 2015, 09:30:00 pm ---Mobula is the one ship you have to paint.

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I disagree 100%. All that painting, theming and decaling makes it less fancy than it should be.


Mobula: Fancy
I hope this name raises no question, I mean seriously, even the fence is made as fancy as it could be on a battle airship battle boatplane!
Sometines the name gets added to in order to fit the build. Examples of this name modification are Fancy Mining (all mines), Fancy Fishing Rod (all harpoons) and Fancy Lightbulb (all flares).

Squid: Squishy Cactus or Meta Cactus
Formerly known as Squishy or Meta Squish, but Squishy is such a common name, even for non-Squids, so I had to find something new. Because of some weird joke that was creating hilarity while flying the Squid it got changed to Cactus, and earned itself some green dye.
The "Meta" gets added to the name when it is a long range Squid, most commonly Mercury or Hades front, because these are just as OP as they can be.

Goldfish: Friendfish
Friendship is an overused joke and because "fish" fit so well into the name, it was named Friendfish instead. It is so friendly, it gets rid of all the sorrow and pain, in your life, that is known as "Life", by simply killing you.

Junker: Whale on the loose
The Junker is totally the most whale-like ship in the game and it is neither tamed nor contained, obviously.

Galleon: Deicide
The Killing of a God. As fun and silly as double Hwacha and double Heavy Carronade may seem, one can't deny it gets rid of a ship rather easily. As any Galleon, it can kill any ship in mere seconds once gun arcs are applied, even gods, the legendary and immortal vets, might not survive it.
No, I have not listened to the band that coincidentally has the same name and looking at their specialized genre I wouldn't do it, ever, on my own free will at least.

Pyramidion: Chariot
Formerly it was one of many Pokes until it advanced to the next level and became a singularity. I am not even joking about that one, since the few times I fly Pyramidion it is with a ship build that gets either rarely or never used by anybody else in the game.
Also Pyramidions are the perfect ship to resemble Chariots I find. The horses that easily run you over and crush you with their speed and mass, the archers and warriors riding it able to shoot and slice anything that comes into vision and range. Obviously rather vulnerable from behind and once the engines/horses are down, it is a bit helpless. As the Pyramidion only has side guns on the left and nothing on the right it might be a little bit inaccurate, but I am not a Chariot expert either, soo...


And as one would expect the best is saved for last, the most tallest, most slowest, "most" firepower and some engines:
Spire: The great VGS
The first ship I started playing with and with it three of my friends that were transported from another game, which is currently seen as dead. Only one of them stayed with me and is, by me seen, the best main engineer in the game.
The name of this ship is of course a reference to the game, "Tribes: Ascend", which had a bunch of easily spamable voice commands. One of these voice commands was created by pressing "VGTG": "I am the greatest!". As one would like it, if the voice commands were used in quick succession it would cut off the end of the current command and continue with the next one. With that "I am the greatest" turned into "I am the great X", whatever came after that. Most people ended most commands with the "VGS" command, which everybody that played the game for even the smallest amount of time should recognize. I will not tell anybody what it is unless they really bug me or I feel like telling a little story, filled with emotion and sadness and - Spoiler - no happy ending!
The very moment we joined Guns of Icarus: Online, The great VGS was born and lives on forever and ever as a memory, as a legend, as the only full explosive Hwacha/Artemis/Mortar/bottom side Mine Launcher Spire that could wreck all the shit in the novice matches.

Kronos Alucard:
Galleon: HMS Tsar
After the title of the Russian Emperor, I may choose a specific Tsar but not at the moment

Pyramidion: SMS Wilhelm I
Named after the German Kaiser

Mobula: HMS George V
I named it after the British monarch I respect the most, and also since he had a kick-ass beard.

Spire: SS Strasbourg
Name of a city I like

Junker: SS Seahag
Why not?

Squid: SS Athena
Who could win against a god ;)

Goldfish: SS Titan
Better question, who could win against a titan???

ShadedExalt:

--- Quote from: Kronos Alucard on January 03, 2015, 11:34:18 pm ---Squid: SS Athena
Who could win against a god ;)

Goldfish: SS Titan
Better question, who could win against a titan???

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Dementio wants to have a word with you.

Kronos Alucard:
Fine, I'll tickle his peach.

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