Let's Face the Real Problem with the USN

[th3freakie]

That god-awful naming.

 

USS Des Moines? Why would anyone slog through 10 tiers to sail anything named after this urban embodiment of boredom?

 

USS Baltimore? Yeah, let that flag of crippling racial tension run high and proud!

 

USS Montana? Sure, nothing screams Overwhelming Naval Power like the 3rd US state in beer microbreweries per capita, with all of it's 1 million people and cattle-farming dominant economy. 

 

But let's not forget the USS Essex, named after another ship called Essex, which in turn got it's name from a sleepy suburbia of Boston, which in turn gets it's name from a county in an entirely different country, which in it's own turn got the name from a Kingdom that disappeared over 1000 years ago. 

 

What's that you say? The destroyers are named after cool people at least? Sure, let's look at those. USS Gearing, named after 3 guys with navy careers that would be perfectly ordinary if it wasn't for the statistic anomaly of each generation living less than the previous. USS Wickles. Wickles. USS Mahan, named after a navy man who didn't like the sea and whose ships had a tendency to crash into moving and stationary objects.

 

Let's face it, WG, the USN tech line needs a complete revision in named.

 

Also, this makes it all the more urgent to bring forward the introduction of Royal Navy ships. After so many games with the USS Beach Resort Pensacola, I'd kill for some HMS Invincible, HMS Queen Elizabeth or HMS Revenge. Heck, at this point I'd be pretty happy with the HMS Hermione:

 

(the above is mostly in jest)

[KptStrzyga]

Well.. Russian names for ships are more working for imagination - Gnievnyj (eager to anger) Gremyashchy (thunderous). Japanese names are very beautyfull, they were naming destroyers after winds, battleships after gr8 generals, cruisers after mountains. 

Americans have no imagination or history so what can you do. We have to live with it.

[Hedgehog1963]

I agree. I've always found the historic names of the Royal Ravy to be far more interesting, except for the smaller ships of the USN.  The Yanks love to name their ships - particularly carriers - after battles they won.  If the Royal Navy did that we'd have a lot bigger navy which would include HMS We Burned The White House Down.

[Xevious_Red]

Navy did that we'd have a lot bigger navy which would include HMS We Burned The White House Down.

I look forward to sailing the HMS Gun-beats-spear

[Takeda92]

battleships after gr8 generals

Battleships named after provinces, Except Fusou which is an old name for Japan. Kongou class does not count as a BB.

 

Every nation name its biggest ships after something they are proud of. In her time frame, being named New York really means a lot.

[ItachiZero]

Battleships named after provinces, Except Fusou which is an old name for Japan. Kongou class does not count as a BB.

 

Every nation name its biggest ships after something they are proud of. In her time frame, being named New York really means a lot.

 

Kongo is a battleship but it was built as Battlecruiser in England. reconfig in japan to the Battleship-class I like.

So BB but its nice to know. 

[vortenus]

Well, You got me at HMS Hermione. I'd sail that.

[ItachiZero]

That god-awful naming.

 

USS Des Moines? Why would anyone slog through 10 tiers to sail anything named after this urban embodiment of boredom?

 

USS Baltimore? Yeah, let that flag of crippling racial tension run high and proud!

 

USS Montana? Sure, nothing screams Overwhelming Naval Power like the 3rd US state in beer microbreweries per capita, with all of it's 1 million people and cattle-farming dominant economy. 

 

But let's not forget the USS Essex, named after another ship called Essex, which in turn got it's name from a sleepy suburbia of Boston, which in turn gets it's name from a county in an entirely different country, which in it's own turn got the name from a Kingdom that disappeared over 1000 years ago. 

 

What's that you say? The destroyers are named after cool people at least? Sure, let's look at those. USS Gearing, named after 3 guys with navy careers that would be perfectly ordinary if it wasn't for the statistic anomaly of each generation living less than the previous. USS Wickles. Wickles. USS Mahan, named after a navy man who didn't like the sea and whose ships had a tendency to crash into moving and stationary objects.

 

Let's face it, WG, the USN tech line needs a complete revision in named.

 

Also, this makes it all the more urgent to bring forward the introduction of Royal Navy ships. After so many games with the USS Beach Resort Pensacola, I'd kill for some HMS Invincible, HMS Queen Elizabeth or HMS Revenge. Heck, at this point I'd be pretty happy with the HMS Hermione:

 

(the above is mostly in jest)

 

wow. go back in time and complain to the people in charge of naming

[Takeda92]

 

Kongo is a battleship but it was built as Battlecruiser in England. reconfig in japan to the Battleship-class I like.

So BB but its nice to know. 

 

Yeah, it became a BB but it wasn't built as one. 

 

There are also other deviation from the rules, like Kako (2nd Furutaka) named after a river like light cruisers, and Amagi and Katsuragi (2nd and 3rd Unryuu-class CVs) named after mountains. 

 

 In fact, here's the name of all the ships and their meaning 

http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijnnames.htm

[vortenus]

 

wow. go back in time and complain to the people in charge of naming

 

Whats that sticking out Your behind? Oh, its a stick.

Looks like after so many cry-threads even a joke one is taken seriously. Sad.

[LilJumpa]

 

wow. go back in time and complain to the people in charge of naming

 

You should recalibrate that long thing made out of wood in your back door.

 

Damn... those ninjas

[mtm78]

Well, You got me at HMS Hermione. I'd sail that.

 

Me 2, me 2... I'd consider it an everlasting maiden voyage 

[ItachiZero]

 

Whats that sticking out Your behind? Oh, its a stick.

Looks like after so many cry-threads even a joke one is taken seriously. Sad.

 

well wasnt serious.

 

You should recalibrate that long thing made out of wood in your back door.

 

Damn... those ninjas

hahaha well could. 

[txtspeak]

eh. its not just the USN that does this.

lets see murmansk...

named after a place in russia called murmansk

(*)_(*)

[EsaTuunanen]

That god-awful naming.

You think renaming would make them perform on par with ships of other nations?

[Takru]

You guys have no idea how lucky you are... Don't look too closely at the German Tech tree..

[praetor_jax]

Well i guess its still better than calling a ship invincible or indefeatigable... tempting fate up to eleven

 

[Kurbain]

Well i guess its still better than calling a ship invincible or indefeatigable... tempting fate up to eleven

 

Maybe, but better to tempt fate than end up with names like Habakkuk. 

[LilJumpa]

I agree. I've always found the historic names of the Royal Ravy to be far more interesting, except for the smaller ships of the USN.  The Yanks love to name their ships - particularly carriers - after battles they won.  If the Royal Navy did that we'd have a lot bigger navy which would include HMS We Burned The White House Down.

 

Well the Brits are not always the best at naming Ships:

HMS Buttercup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Buttercup

 

and the mighty ANL Explorer

https://www.fleetmon.com/vessels/anl-explorer_8506098_575186/

 

 

[Cosseria]

I like USN naming conventions. It's just that after almost 200 cruisers and 60 battleships, they were short on cities and states so they had to make do.

[Tubit101]

A few names from the Gloriana battleship class in Warhammer 40K:

 

• Invincible Reason (Dark Angels Legion)
• Swordstorm (White Scars Legion)
• Hrafnkel (Space Wolves Legion)
• Red Tear (Blood Angels Legion)
• Fist of Iron (Iron Hands Legion)
• Macragge's Honour (Ultramarines Legion)
• Flamewrought (Salamanders Legion)
• Shadow of the Emperor (Raven Guard Legion)
• Pride of the Emperor (Emperor's Children Legion)
• Iron Blood (Iron Warriors Legion)
• Nightfall (Night Lords Legion)
• Conqueror (World Eaters Legion)
• Endurance (Death Guard Legion)
• Photep (Thousand Sons Legion)
• Vengeful Spirit (Sons of Horus Legion)
• Fidelitas Lex (Word Bearers Legion)

[_x_Acheron_x_]

Considering that pretty much every place in the US goes with a ship, it's inevitable that some places you don't like are going to be used.

 

As much as I like the RN, you cant avoid the pathetic name that is HMS Rodney.

 

You can't beat HMS Emperor Of India though.

 

 

 

[SonofaSailor]

 

Let's face it, WG, the USN tech line needs a complete revision in named.

 

Also, this makes it all the more urgent to bring forward the introduction of Royal Navy ships. After so many games with the USS Beach Resort Pensacola, I'd kill for some HMS Invincible, HMS Queen Elizabeth or HMS Revenge. Heck, at this point I'd be pretty happy with the HMS Hermione:

 

(the above is mostly in jest)

 

I'd be pretty happy with Hermione, too!

 

... er, hang on. This isn't that kind of thread, is it?

[_x_Acheron_x_]

 

Me 2, me 2... I'd consider it an everlasting maiden voyage 

 

I noticed the player base today was below 20,000 when I was on.

[Tubit101]

 

Well the Brits are not always the best at naming Ships:

HMS Buttercup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Buttercup

 

and the mighty ANL Explorer

https://www.fleetmon.com/vessels/anl-explorer_8506098_575186/

 

 

 

(From Wikipedia): In December 1944, she (Buttercup) was loaned to the Royal Norwegian Navy, who purchased her in 1946 and renamed her Nordkyn. In 1969 she became a civilian whaler, named Thoris.

 

At least her name was fixed eventually