Where does your Hive Fleet name come from?

[BattleMetalChris]

On a whim, after I joined here and wanted to post a WIP thread in the Painting section, I decided on 'Hive Fleet Tchernoborg'.


The name comes from the final boss from the game 'Blood', and excellent FPS from about 20 years ago utilising the Duke Nukem 3D engine (IIRC).


So what inspired yours?

[WestRider]

Chernobog (I've seen a number of different spellings) is actually much older than that. He was an old Slavic god of darkness and death as I recall.

Mine is Hive Fleet Naeglaeria, named not after a mythical creature, but an actual form of amoeba that gets into mammals' skull cavities either through their sinuses or eye sockets, and eats their brains.

[tylertt]

[bolk]

Nidhoggr, he's an ancient dragon from norse mythology that tries to destroy the roots of the world tree Yggdrasil every day.

[angelwing]

Mine is Splinter fleet WH40KVN6, the imperial designation for a splinter of hive fleet kraken. The number changes to reflect which edition of the codex is being used.
It was chosen when there where only two named hivefleets, with everything else just being a splinter fleet of those two. Technically then, I'm hive fleet kraken, but the creature colouration has evolved to fit its circumstances (ie my personal taste).

[Hive Bahamut]

Bahamut: King of Dragons in FF7. Omega Flare anyone?

[zergling15]

gearing towards Hive Fleet Basilisk, to both keep it in the mythical family and see if I can't model some multiple headed models

[tarrasque]

Hive fleet Tarrasque. The biggest, most dangerous monster in D&D. With an unequaled appetite!

[mattblowers]

Hive Fleet Brobdingnagian. It's a splinter fleet of Leviathan (my paint scheme is close to Leviathan). Plus I get to call my warlord Dingatius, I think it sounds badass. Brobdingnagian just means giant or huge. If I run a goofy list, I'm hive fleet Brob.

[angelwing]

Mar 18, 2015 18:01:27 GMT mattblowers said:

Plus I get to call my warlord Dingatius, I think it sounds badass.

Sounds too close to Dingus if you say it fast...

[BattleMetalChris]

Hive fleet Bob, commanded by Warlord Dingus.

[Deleted]

Hive Fleet Hephaestus. I enjoy mythology, greek, roman, and otherwise. And I remember for a while I'd encountered tales of how the forge god, borne mortal changed to godhood had been portrayed as a master of siege warfare.

The change to divine to me was representative of tyranids evolving, like tempering something in fire, and tyranids as invaders must master siege warfare so it seemed appropriate. It's not the traditional use of a beast of legend, but it is one I have enjoyed for my fleet.

Hell, even in the fanfic I wrote on this forum the planet's names have all related to the god Hephaestus(such as birthplace, which make for good imperial sounding names) and the hive ships' names(for purposes of identification) are all the names of children of Hephaestus. I feel bad I haven't written in it in a while >.> Just been working so much it's hard to justify sitting down and writing with mah free time. Eventually.

EDIT: I think I want to try and get 4 flaming bio-hammer mace things for my swarmlord and do him up as an homage piece to the god. Which is convenient because the swarmlord I got used was painted....poorly. 

[shadowfinder]

My is classic Greek Mythology:::: Hive fleet Medusa. It was a Hive Fleet that was just waking up in the map of the 5th ed book.

I also love Raveners and trygons. I have a list I run that over half of the army is snake bodies. I love to do Medusa head for the tyrants as well. All my tyrants will be made out of trygon bodies next year after tax's.

[angelwing]

In heroic age Greek mythology, Medusa never had a snake body. In the movies however... And it does look cooler. Medusa from the original Clash of the Titans film has always stuck in my head from childhood.

[bronyzro]

Hive Fleet Haietlik, an Inuit Sea Serpent. It has a razor sharp head, spits lightning, and eat orca whales alive because... he just doesn't like orcas I guess.

It works well for me, and I've worked up a pretty good frost-bitten color scheme. The fluff for it is essentially OOE in fleet form, rising up and devouring a research station over a century after its apparent demise. Anyone see Europa Report? Basically that.