The recently announced Italian cruiser line has a total of seven ships that were built and in service, and three that are taken from designs (at least two of them, I'm not sure about where they found the Tier 10).   These three ships appeared with the names of Verona, Torino and Milano. These names are not in following of the Regia Marina nomenclature precedents, which may have been a bit lax but nonetheless had a certain logic to it. This is a page with all the RM cruisers from the 1880s to World War II (please disregard the helictoper cruisers of the Marina Militare at the bottom). We can draw a bit of conclusion about what themes were IRL used for cruisers: Historical military leaders (eg. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Francesco Ferruccio, Nino Bixio, the whole bunch of the Condottieri-type and the Capitani Romani - unfortunately these names were largely used up in WWII ships) Regions and volcanoes of Italy (the old Regioni-class cruisers and the Etna-class - but the volcanoes were partially taken up by the formerly Thailandese small cruisers taken over by the RM) Names of the Maritime Republics (Pisa and Amalfi) Battles of the Risorgimento (Varese, Goito, etc.) Harbours involved in WWI (Taranto, Bari, Brindisi, Venezia, Ancona - assigned to ships taken over as war reparations) "Redeemed cities" (the Trento- and the Zara-classes) Others (some ships given names of birds of prey or colonial battles or mythological names that by WWII were used by ships such as the Spica-class torpedo-boats)   Therefore, the proposed names for the upper Tier cruisers can be seen as inherently not following these guidelines, as Torino, Milano and Verona, while huge and important, not only are not harbours, but do not have any specific historical meaning in the sense that the other ships named after cities had.   -   So, what are some names that could be more acceptable? Opinion may differ on this subject, so I will simply state mine, and welcome any other opinion that may differ.   Postulating that drawing on the names of former ships of the RM may be the safer and best choice, there are several choices that I believe would be rather good: First, the names I think would be the best choice would be the names of the remaining two Maritime Republics, Pisa and Amalfi (since Genova is taken already and the name Venezia may be reserved for a future high-Tier premium, one of the "supercruisers" with 254 mm guns) The next best choice might be to use names of Italian regions. Such names would be properly grand for important ships such as heavy cruisers, I feel. If a more "historical" flavour is preferrable, my choice would fall on names such as Marco Polo (a great Italian explorer whose name, while not strictly "naval", was nonetheless free) or Carlo Alberto (a name that would keep with the "historical leaders" trend, and one I'd guess would have been readily accepted by the traditionally monarchist RM). If names of people are a no-go, I'd choose a name of a battle of the Risorgimento; Varese and Goito would be the strongest candidates in my opinion.   -   This is it. Please vote on the poll, and please share your own opinions on what names would be better for these ships.    ... I would also like to politely request, to all those who would like to come and share potential names taken from Italian foods or Italian-American video-game characters, to take their oh, so original humour elsewhere, as I'd like this to be a serious discussion.