What should I name my Hive Fleet?

[frostknife]

I'm starting up in warhammer 40k and I've decided these bugs are the boys for me. But before I do anything i want to name my hive!

Which sounds the coolest to you guys?

Charybdis: A deadly maelstrom. While technically not a beast, it's usually characterized as almost a living monster

Fafnir: A dwarf turned dragon in Norse mythology

Chimera: Greek hybrid of creatures usually lion, goat, and snake (dragon sometimes)

Garm: The Norse bloodstained watchdog of hel

Cerberus: The three-headed watchdog that guards hades

[swarm492]

Oct 31, 2014 16:02:20 GMT frostknife said:

I'm starting up in warhammer 40k and I've decided these bugs are the boys for me. But before I do anything i want to name my hive!

Which sounds the coolest to you guys?

Charybdis: A deadly maelstrom. While technically not a beast, it's usually characterized as almost a living monster

Fafnir: A dwarf turned dragon in Norse mythology

Chimera: Greek hybrid of creatures usually lion, goat, and snake (dragon sometimes)

Garm: The Norse bloodstained watchdog of hel

Cerberus: The three-headed watchdog that guards hades

I think that which ever name you pick, you need to have some theme in the army that goes along with it. For example Fafnir, if you chose this one write some fluff how your fleet wiped out a marine chapter providing the biomass for lots of big bugs, and then represent that in your playstyle.

[overhive]

Charbydis is actually the daughter if Poseidon and Gaia with a face that's all mouth and only flippers for limbs. She drinks and vomits lots of water making whirlpools.

But I agree with swarm name it the way that goes with your fluff youve thought of

[asmodas]

If you go with Fafnir, just say that its the Hive Fleet that ate the Squats!

[overhive]

You mean ratlings?

[Davor]

Cultro Gelu

There you go. Frost Knife in Latin.

[arapaima]

Oct 31, 2014 16:59:45 GMT overhive said:

Charbydis is actually the daughter if Poseidon and Gaia with a face that's all mouth and only flippers for limbs. She drinks and vomits lots of water making whirlpools.

But I agree with swarm name it the way that goes with your fluff youve thought of

Yea dips on charbydis and with the exception of cerberus, she is not a monster destined to be slain by a mighty hero. Remember you want your hive fleet to eat some wolflord named Sigmund when he want to forge his narrative .

[malebranche]

I like cerberus. Having a trio of big bugs as the centrepiece would be awesome - a trio of fexes, tervigons, haruspex (or not), exocrines or t-fexes. Or maybe the new big bugs. If you have the money, three heirodules would be awesome.
Either way, I'd have them backed up by a deep striking trygon or mawloc.

[daboarder]

Go for something unique, Chimera, Charybdis and Cerberus would be pretty common I figure, Garm and Fafnir are cool though

For example, I myself wanted to initialy go with banshee, but ended up using caoineag instead (same thing different name)

[slithernaut]

Nov 1, 2014 7:41:17 GMT daboarder said:

Go for something unique, Chimera, Charybdis and Cerberus would be pretty common I figure, Garm and Fafnir are cool though

For example, I myself wanted to initialy go with banshee, but ended up using caoineag instead (same thing different name)

+1 Chimera is defenitly not unique, Imperial Guard  already nabbed that name. I wanted to go with Azazel, tying into the whole Giger Xenomorph and Prometheus story, but that dang Slaanesh has a Daemon Prince named Azazel... I decided on Krampus, the Christmas Demon of the High Countries. Forget getting coal in your stocking if you were bad this year, Krampus can and will eat your face.

No coincidence that Ridley Scott's Prometheus takes place on Christmas day.

[frostknife]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! So unfortunately, there's already a hive fleet chimera in gw lore. I think I've decided to go with something Greek or Latin unless I see something really cool in Norse mythos.

I'll for certain write fluff on my hive once I've selected the name that fits appropriately.

Scorpius/Scorpio sounds pretty cool. He was a scorpion that fought and bonked Orion.

[seethe]

Nov 1, 2014 8:45:53 GMT slithernaut said:

Nov 1, 2014 7:41:17 GMT daboarder said:

Go for something unique, Chimera, Charybdis and Cerberus would be pretty common I figure, Garm and Fafnir are cool though

For example, I myself wanted to initialy go with banshee, but ended up using caoineag instead (same thing different name)

+1 Chimera is defenitly not unique, Imperial Guard  already nabbed that name. I wanted to go with Azazel, tying into the whole Giger Xenomorph and Prometheus story, but that dang Slaanesh has a Daemon Prince named Azazel... I decided on Krampus, the Christmas Demon of the High Countries. Forget getting coal in your stocking if you were bad this year, Krampus can and will eat your face.

No coincidence that Ridley Scott's Prometheus takes place on Christmas day.

Thats pretty cool man. Good ole Ridley Scott managed to scare the (please do not swear) out of me when I was a little kid and I love Prometheus and Alien. Part of the reason im a nid fan I guess.

OT: I thought Garm was cool, fits a predatory theme, maybe something cunning enough to lure you into the jaws of defeat.

[cyaneye]

If you want a nice metaphor, name it after the crab Cancer. While also having the mythology reference, it also represents what they tyranids are to the galaxy and the threat that they pose.

Only catch is that you cant get too excited whenever your fleet does something huge, lest you shout out "Yeah! Go Cancer!"

Of the names posted, I like Charybdis the best, though Scylla wouldn't hurt either

[frostknife]

Alas Charybdis and Scylla are already canon fleets . I think Cerberus may be as well.

Now I'm considering Hive Fleet Cetus as it would fit with the blue highlighted models of my future army.

Garm or garmr seems to be getting a lot of praise so that's not out either. Still kinda want something Latin though. But there's only so many mythical beasts!

[Sensei]

I had a similar problem in naming my Hive fleet. A lot of the norse/greek/latin mythological names either didn't sound right, didn't have a meaning I liked or were already canon in GW background. I found my hive fleet name in the names of prehistoric mega-fauna. I was actually working on an assignment for a course I'm taking and needed to look into the mega-fauna that lived in the Paleozoic era. A lot of the creatures that lived then were large, scary and have cool sounding names.

Hive fleet Castoroides was born. Sounds cool, and castoroides being the name of a species of giant beaver native to North America, it seems fittingly patriotic of my Canadian home.