Funny Crewman names

[Stealhead]

Anyone else get a kick out the crewman naming system in SH4?
I have seen some pretty funny names from time to time.

Right now I have an Ensign whose name is:Bafford Hamilton Brown....
Bafford? I guess his parents had a sense of humor I like to think that maybe his drinking name is: "Bastard Brown" never heard of the name Bafford myself.

A also have a sailor whose first name is Fiztpugh.I think he must be one to avoid after he has had a meal.:har:

[Torplexed]

I've gotten the impression that our Rumanian friends who developed the game hadn't had much prior experience with English, particularly American naming conventions. :hmmm: You see a lot of odd combinations. But, then if I had to come up with a bunch of fictional Japanese or Chinese names, I'd probably break all kinds of unseen rules.

[Stealhead]

I think they just modidifed the one used in SH3 because you see a lot of German names as well. I always like the ones where the guy has a super long name like John Jim Edward I. Smith. I think it kind makes the game more fun honestly.

Yeah I mean how many Russian could we come up with? They'd all be Boris,Ivan,and Vladimirs.

[Torplexed]

I think they just modidifed the one used in SH3 because you see a lot of German names as well. I always like the ones where the guy has a super long name like John Jim Edward I. Smith. I think it kind makes the game more fun honestly.

It's too bad they didn't include John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. Then I could sink Japanese shipping while raucously singing...

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt,
His name is my name, too.
Whenever we go out
The people always shout,
"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!" :D

[Armistead]

Yea funny..

Often wondered how many characters we have. I see some faces on some subs I don't on others. I know many companies use their own faces as models...

[Stealhead]

I dont seem to see very much variety in the actual modeled crewman.I think there are only 3 or 4 different guys for officer and enlisted and I see the same guy a lot just maybe one has a shark tattoo and the other one does not.. oh wait never mind those are the Fitzpughe twins they should look alike.:haha:

It may bug some but I kind of find this little quirk about the game pretty entertaining."Let the Japs try to get info out me if we get captured I'll tell my full name Robert George Bill T. Smith and tell em to stick it!" thats right John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

[Aviv]

Always common to see people with the same last name. I don't like it, but maybe it explains why a lot of them look the same; they're twins!

Is there some file in the data folder which contains all the names, and it compiles them at random to make a sailor? Because you could add some more to increase the names and reduce the chances of getting people with the same name. Would that be possible?

[Stealhead]

I honest to goodness have a crewman in one career and his name is Dick Richard Muller.Well I guess nothing more needs be said there.:haha:

I'm sure I have missed some pretty good ones because I dont normally look though all the crew names and I have been playing Sh4 for a good while and SH3 for a bit before that.
Never put that much thought into messing with the name files myself never seemed all that important to me and the names can be funny the way it is and fellows having the same last name in the same unit is not that uncommon in real life in my experience one reason armed forces go by rank names and last names while on official duty or at least when officers and senior NCOs are around.