As a bit of fun, and because we’re just a couple of days away from the release of Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition, I have put together two new name generators to help you do just that – generate some names. As well as the Primaris Marine Chapter Name Generator, there’s a Death Guard War Band Name Generator too – how’s that for a slice of fried adamantium?!
Let’s start off with the “Good” guys; The Primaris Marines. Now of course, you can add these hulking, super-sized killing machines to any existing chapter, from Blood Angels to Space Wolves, from Nova Marines to Howling Griffins, but if you’re one of the people thinking about collecting a brand new chapter, made purely of Primaris Marines, you can do that too. And that’s where this name generator comes in. As with before in the classic marine variant, you take your initials to get your chapter name. Here’s it is:
Now, I’ll come clean, there are some repetitions in there from the original because some of the more high-scoring-in-scrabble letters just don’t have that many useful words. You shouldn’t get something completely the same, but if you do, try using your middle initial, or the name of a loved one instead. As my initials are JRA, I would be the ‘Jade Avengers’ but if I wanted to change things up a little, I could always switch to ‘Jade Redeemers’ or ‘Revenant Avengers’. What did you get? And how do you like it?
And now for the really fun one; the Nurgle Name Generator. If you’re starting a new Nurgle marine force and you don’t want to go with the Death Guard or any of the other existing War Bands that venerate the generous Grandfather, here’s a war band name generator for you:
Sorry to all the Dave Greens in this world – you’re stuck with it. It was so much fun coming up with this one. All those lovely, plague-ridden words. Everything should sound gribbly, rotten, horrible and gross. In this iteration, I would be building the ‘Jagged Afflicters’ War Band, but if I wasn’t too happy with that (I am – I may well work on those soon!), then I could go with The ‘Jagged Rot’ or even ‘Rusting Afflicters’. How about you? Have you found something suitably gross and disgusting?
I hope you had fun with those – I certainly enjoyed making them. And it definitely helped me stave off the ravenous hunger I have to get hold of the 8th Box set. Speaking of which, I’m likely picking it up on Sunday, but will do a review for it here next week. Onwards!
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Update: The very clever and talented Dan at Ritual Miniatures has created a far prettier and slightly more randomised version of these Name Generators over at his site. Check out his name generator now!
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My initials are TGW. If I shuffled the letters about a bit I ended up with The Weeping Guard. And that’s an excellent name for a Death Guard Warband. If/when I get the boxed set I’ll be sure to remember this name.
My warband’s name is flocking Death Plague. Beware the emo acne…
I used your lists and turned it into a generator… https://ritualminiatures.com/8th-edition-name-generator
I hope you don’t mind!
Mind!? I love it. Awesome – good work man – I wish I could do that. A link back would be nice if you could spare one (happy to send one your way too)? And given the popularity of this post, I’m actually working on some more name generators at the moment, so if you want to collaborate, I’d be up for that. Cheers!
I’ve linked your site at the top of the page, definitely up for some more collaboration – they’ll be super easy for me to knock together now that I’ve done one. Are you on twitter?
Gah. I’ve not been on Twitter for some years now. I’m on Google+, but then not many other people are so I don’t know if that helps at all?
PS – Thanks for the link – your site is now linked to from the post as well!
It’s just a handy way to talk, email works too though if you want to drop me a line at dan@unbo.lt then I’ll be happy to put together random name generators based on whatever you come up with!
The Ascending Warriors feels particularly appropriate for a Primaris Chapter, given their recent addition to the Imperial forces.
Not so much a fan of the Aching Wounds, so I think I’m going to go with my middle names for the Lost Lords, which at least sounds appropriately gloomy and gothic.
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Hmmm… The Ascendant Redeemers?