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Man and Beast 06: The Heavy Brigade. Systematic naming of symmetric and forward-only non-coprime radial pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 06:23 AM UTC:

Recently I have been considering names for mixed-range part-Hopping radial
pieces. So far I have settled on Rook+Spear=Distaff (female-rÃ´le
counterpart to a spear in theatrical conventions), Bishop+Musket=Vigilante
(modern person taking community action too far), and Arrow+Dabbaba=Dartgun
(gun firing arrowhead-like projectiles). FO names are easy to derive from
all three - Staff, Vigil, and Dart - none of which I have previously used.
	However, I am having real trouble naming Cannon+Elephant. One name
that I considered was Flamethrower, with Flame for the FO version, but the
link to its components was tenuous. In any case there are already several
names starting with Fla- of which Flail is connected (curved Elephrider)
but the rest - Flambeau, Flamen, Flamingo, Flattener - are not. Other
names that I considered as fitting the piece better were Howitzer,
Launcher, Mangonel, and Mortar, but I could not see a way of naming the FO
piece in the same way.
	Any better ideas would be really welcome, with an explanation if
not obvious - but please use the indexes to check that they are not
already in Man and Beast. Ideas for deriving a name for the FO piece from
any of my last four suggestions are also welcome.