Define Your Regiment

[Sage]

Swords of Randomness

Well, the swords part is due to my regiment type being infantry. The randomness comes from a conversation within Highland and it kinda suits me because I come up with some really weird and random stuff sometimes (moreso in real life than here).

Define my regiment? Well, they're random. They have many "I should buy a boat!" moments if you know what I mean. It's hard to get a handle on random. They just do whatever pops into their mind, but being random has it's advantages. It keeps the enemy guessing and with no planning invovled it's pretty much all or nothing.
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[Agahnim]

Amaresu is short hand reference in Japan for Amateur Wrestling.

The Amaresu Legion are an infantry regiment who practice the art of war as a pastime.
They rarely accept money when it concerns defending Tinto, however they are known to accept money as a part of competitions formed under restrictions specified by a regulatory body. They lack a certain finesse where their infantry skills are concerned, perhaps lacking a medium of professionalism, but they are extremely adept at the very basic and rawest forms of battle and perform them at an exceptional level.

Edit: After a lengthy discussion amongst themselves, The Amaresu Legion are known known as The Wild Soldiers.
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"The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience."

[Gaara]

I got the regiment name from my favorite anime series.

Akatsuki
A group of men in black robes with red clouds on them, wearing straw hats. Mounted on black stallions, they lead a unit of Zexen's strongest cavalry.

[Daniel Blackhand]

My current regiment name The Wind of Change is inspired by one of my favorite rock songs of all times. The men in this unit are of the best trained cavalry in all of the Queendom and are part of one of the two great cavalry units. In battle they swarm over their foe with pure fury and enter a berserk state of consciousness.
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[Krawnik]

The Saiwai Pirates. Rawr.

The "Saiwai Pirates" is a name conjured up by my buddy Conor to name our respective group of friends. Previously I used to refer to my crew as just "the groupies", but that name got boring, and had... untrue conotations. Heh. So he dubbed our crews the Saiwai Pirates, Saiwai being a Japanese word for "happy". I figured I would call my regiment the Saiwai Pirates because I'm an Islander, and the Islanders are pretty much pirates without exception. Drink up, me hearties!

The Saiwai Pirates look like any other band of fun-loving, wench-chasing, grog-drinking pirates, with a few exceptions. For the most part, we're all relatively... er, "civilized" looking, at least, those of us who are native to Obel. Those pirates we've picked up from here and there tend to have that more authentic "hands-in-the-pants", unshaven, rag-wearing perma-drunk pirate look. Obel Saiwais are usually better dressed (ableit minimally dressed, due to the temperate weather of Obel), clean-shaven, literate, and sober. Occasionally.

As the captain of the Saiwai pirates, though, I'm always sober.
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416- friggin' racists, messing up my generalizations, also stealing my jobs, women.
RIP Ninjalicious

[kuwaizair]

God's fingertips is holy destruction, crazed overly self-sure "religous nuts" use it as an excuse for bloodshead. They parade around with its banner and feel they are immune to needless killing, for it is right, just and clensing.

rain down holy destruction! God's Fingertips!

(It would be better if we were a magic unit)

anway this was just somthing I came up with, its sounds mystical dosen't it? not really mystical but just somthing to behold. I came up with it orginaly for a differnt source, so the revelance is a bit differnt, but not by much.
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few runes short of a set of 27

[Exile]

[Krawnik]

Dip the arrows in Holy Water and watch the pagan masses burn!
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416- friggin' racists, messing up my generalizations, also stealing my jobs, women.
RIP Ninjalicious

[John Layfield]

Longhorns

An infantry regiment composed of the Defense Staff for the Layfield Trading Company. The Longhorns don't dress in standard military uniform but normally dress in black to give an impression of a large physical body than normal. Leaders of individual groups wear a peculiar item know as 'business suits', said to be imported from the western continent. At the forefront of the regiment sits John Layfield, accompanied by his Chief of Staff and his two own personal secrateries of defense. Each unit within the regiment follows the same basic layout.

The soldiers who form this regiment are recruited not just from Highland but from all over the world as employees of Layfield Trading Company.
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One day, I shall come back. Yes, we shall all come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

[Weyoun]

Fresna Knights

The Fresna knights are the forward defense force of the Island Nations. They are stationed in Lasahn and are led by Captain Black Knight, along with his First Lieutenant. The Knights who join are not allowed to say what their real names are, but are given an alias like Lieutenant Vamp. They are all dressed in black suits with a white undershirt, black pants and two swords. To join the Fresna Knights you must be an educated person, and skilled with a sword. The Black Knight fights all the new reqruits to see what they can do.
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[Starslasher]

Hey, cool regiment names, everyone.

As for me:

The Thunder Elemental(s)

I an a big fam for the Lightning Element. In all animes and video games. For example, Crono in Chrono Trigger is one of my favorite characters for being just so well-rounded, and for having the Lightning Spell. Galford from Samurai Shodown rocks. Haschel from Legend of the Dragoon was my favorite out of the seven. And Kakashi from Naruto kicks butt with his Chidori (but not Sasuke. Itachi should have maimed him and be rid of this nuisance. I would have said "killed", but he uses Chidori as well, so i will tolerate...him for now).

But i don't like Benimaru from the King of Fighters series. Stupid pansy. Having the Thunder element adds a few notches in my book. But that brings him up to Notch -2.

And, as you could guess, this would also mean that i love Geddoe, Edge, Flik, Jeane and so forth. Lightning power all the way!

The Thunder Elementals hit fast and hard, and with deadly skill (Think Thunder Amulet). They are stationed in South Window, ready at the command of their Lightning Lord, Starslasher. Most have adapted the fighting styles of Flik, the Blue Lightning, and are partially influenced by the South Window native, Freed Yamamoto.
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Guardian of Greenhill & Devoted Protector of Oulan



Bork! Bork! Bork!

[Admiral Ackbar]

~The Metabolically Challenged Army of Logantaro~

The original name was "The Zombie Army of Logantaro", but the undead tend to be very sensitive about thier non-living status. So to be more politically correct, I had to change the name.

There isn't much to say about the undead of Logantaro. Logantaro is the second most useless scrap of land on the map (the most useless being the Badlands). Since no one wants to "live" there, it's a perfect place for those without a metabolism or life energy to speak of.

I am the king of nothing! Fear me!
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[Beecham]

[Axiose]

To be fair Harukaze, it should be a way to personalise their own unit to add a feeling of depth to their "characters" within the Suikox game. Orannis is from a totally different story, unrelated to Suikoden.

It must have really bothered you when I had "Danger: Moderator" in there.

Although, I do understand your pet peeve on using plurals, unless of course you have a title like Blue Thunder of which he is a lord of the regiment, but still, let people name their regiment in the name that best suits.
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[Axiose] [Fliktor]

[Beecham]

Actually I ignored Danger: Moderator as a sorta quirky joke. You might remember at one point my regiment name was the First Batallian Transvestite Brigade. It was a temporary joke [if you don't get the joke, you haven't been listening to the right comics, either, so shame on you!], I wanted to return my regiment to Wolves of Senai before phase 4 began.

Actually... I picked a very bad example singling out ... erm... whoever it was I singled out ^_^ Guess that illustrates how not-personal it was, since I don't even know who did it :) I don't seem to see the post on this page and it isn't important enough to dig through the last two. Anyway, I guess as long as the name could fit, it doesn't matter. Binders of Oranis, for example... well, who is Oranis? We don't know, in the Suikox world, but that doesn't mean he couldn't be someone who existed. For all I know here in the Grasslands hearing about the famous Binders of Oranis, Oranis was some villain who plagued the Highlands Kingdom and who King Fliktor Blight bound. Likewise, really, the Haro Army could be anything, going just by the name; it's a name that could be mentioned in the battle reports without sounding totally out of place. That's what's I'm getting at really.

As for Blue Thunder though - and like my comment about the leader of the Haro Army, this is nothing personal at all - I think his regiment title is a good example of what I don't think regiment names should be. We already know he's the Lord of the Metabolically Challenged Army of Logantaro. By default, that's sort of a given. But his regiment is not the Lord of the MCAoL, it is the MCAoL. I think his regiment name should be simply "Metabolically Challenged Army of Logantaro" and the fact that he's Lord of them be a given since he's their leader, or if he wasn't to emphasize the role of "Lord" [as opposed merely to Commander or Captain or whathaveyou], then his signature is a great place for that.

Like I said, really, don't mind me. It's my own pet peeve, something I don't expect will be sated any time soon [read: ever]. I just had the urge to share it when seeing the (s) in Starslasher's post ^_^ It was far too good a symbol of what I meant for me not to comment.