From: Michael Blair <amfortas@h...>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:17:08 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [GZG] Re: NSL Ship Names
Stealing a leaf from the Japanese book and following a scheme for the names, so for example super-dreadnoughts are named for states (Länder?). Other classes could be named for cities, towns, heroes, rivers, lakes, gods and so on. I used names plundered from the Austro-Hungarian section of ConwayÂs All the Worlds Fighting Ships for the ships when I did our last Full Thrust campaign so it would be worth another look. I started with DD names from the ill-fated WW II German DDs as I happened to have a library book on them out at the time but I was careful to avoid any names which had associations with the Nazi era though this still left most of the famous WW II Kriegsmarine ship names free as they had more honorable origins. Wikipedia has some good stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Navy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Austro-Hungarian_Navy The idea of a class of scouts named for runners appeals to me though it is not a very NSL thing. You could have the Pheidippides class which includes  well the only runner I can name is Jesse Owens and he was American but you get the idea. Valkyrie class scout. For example. A little bit of theft from Wikipedia produces: Super-Dreadnoughts (Länder class): Baden-Württemberg Bayern Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hessen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Niedersachsen Nordrhein-Westfalen Rheinland-Pfalz Saarland Sachsen Sachsen-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thüringen This would probably be changed by the time of the official setting of Full Thrust but someone who knows more can handle that. I cannot see the new ships yet, the Star Ranger page is filtered here in work and I am out tonight so it will be Thursday before I get to see them.