Very similar to the ships one, but for the land units.
In vanilla ETW, each Line regiment unit represents one 'regiment' according to way they are automatically named- so, 1st Regiment of Foot, etc. That is a fine system, although I'm also mucking around with a system in darthmod which has two battalions (1 battalion = 1 unit) a regiment, so I have, eg, the 2nd Westminster 1st Battalion and the 2nd Westminster 2nd Battalion. This is quite fun, as I can detach an entire regiment from a force and have them do independent stuff- the 4th Royal Highlanders 1st and 2nd btns, eg, captured Newfoundland, while the 5th Bedfordshire Fusiliers end up in India with the 6th Anglian Grenediers' first battalion.
In either system, if a unit gets over 3exp (or does something like bring down an entire elephant unit by itself) it'll get a special name, just to make it that more personal. Anyone do this? And what names would you call suggest for yours, if they earned it?
In a Prussian Campaign, after spending rather too much time renaming all my regiments so they're in order (and ending up with the most experienced first) I have the likes of the 1st Eagles, 2nd Kestrals, 3rd Breachers, The 4th Unmoveables, 5th Flutes and Drums, 6th Indian Suns, 7th Royal Americans, the 25th St Peters', 26th Russian Regiment, and the 3rd Regiment of Cavalry 'Elephant Hunters', plus Royal artillery regiments used in carrying out a successful revolution. Anyone else?
Please tell me it's not just me...
And I shall go Softly into the Night Taking my Dreams As will You
In vanilla ETW, each Line regiment unit represents one 'regiment' according to way they are automatically named- so, 1st Regiment of Foot, etc. That is a fine system, although I'm also mucking around with a system in darthmod which has two battalions (1 battalion = 1 unit) a regiment, so I have, eg, the 2nd Westminster 1st Battalion and the 2nd Westminster 2nd Battalion. This is quite fun, as I can detach an entire regiment from a force and have them do independent stuff- the 4th Royal Highlanders 1st and 2nd btns, eg, captured Newfoundland, while the 5th Bedfordshire Fusiliers end up in India with the 6th Anglian Grenediers' first battalion.
In either system, if a unit gets over 3exp (or does something like bring down an entire elephant unit by itself) it'll get a special name, just to make it that more personal. Anyone do this? And what names would you call suggest for yours, if they earned it?
In a Prussian Campaign, after spending rather too much time renaming all my regiments so they're in order (and ending up with the most experienced first) I have the likes of the 1st Eagles, 2nd Kestrals, 3rd Breachers, The 4th Unmoveables, 5th Flutes and Drums, 6th Indian Suns, 7th Royal Americans, the 25th St Peters', 26th Russian Regiment, and the 3rd Regiment of Cavalry 'Elephant Hunters', plus Royal artillery regiments used in carrying out a successful revolution. Anyone else?
And I shall go Softly into the Night Taking my Dreams As will You