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Post subject: AX1-0  Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:39 am |
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| Quote (clausewitz @ 19 May 2006 (00:23)) | | I'll second that. ?AX-1-0 doesn't feel right to me either. ?I mean do the Tau even use the same alphabet? |
Decidedly not. The new Tau Empires codex has some bits on that. Phonetically they do have letters for 24 of our's. Missing Z and Q. But they don't spell their names anything remotely like Humans do. It wouldn't be hard to understand the Tau naming their vehicles letter-wise. But the names in the codex seem to be a combination of what the Tau call them and what the Humans call them. But they DO have a naming system based on unit-type similar to the AX-1-0 being a veriant on the same basic design. For instance the XV8 Crisis suits and the XV88 Broadside suits, which are essentially the same system with different weapon load-outs, and the jump jets on the XV88 swapped out for power systems for the Railguns. So this could go either way.
The real question is: Does the AX-1-0 deserve to be it's own ship-class or simply a sub-class of an existing ship? Is it sufficiently different in design to warent being a new kind of vessel or just a sub-type of the same vessel.
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Post subject: AX1-0 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:26 am |
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Pool Shark?
Duh duh... duh duh.... duh duh duh duh...
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Post subject: AX1-0 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 2:17 pm |
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What I was trying to point out (but didn't explain very well) is that if we are going to give it a name, don't call it:
AX-1-0
Call it Whiteshark, Mako, whatever, but don't put two different sharknames together. What you pick isn't that significant as I still see most people calling it the AX-1-0
Shark names not acceptable:
Pink Shark
Ork Shark
Paisley Shark
Land Shark
Hippie Shark
I think you get the idea.
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Post subject: AX1-0 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 2:21 pm |
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...evil mood alert. 
Well "Y" is 1 in Tau...
So we've got AX-Y-0
Now we need the Tau word for "0"... let's call it "S".
So we've got the AX-Y-S flyer...
...and you thought Tau were Commies. 
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Post subject: AX1-0 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:13 pm |
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Why is Y 1? (lol try saying that out loud!)
Honda, perhaps what was meant was that Tigershark AX-1-0 "Mako" was meant to mean the same thing as Battlesuit XV88 "Broadside"? i.e. The Tau designation is "Tigershark AX-1-0" but its commonly known as the "Mako" (or Mak'o or whatever).
I really hope people do (eventually) stop calling it the AX-1-0. Though perhaps its just that name conjures up the memories of the arguements its caused.
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