Clubbers: "Talk Quietly and carry a big stick"

Spearmen: "Poke Poke"

Axemen: "Chop! Chop!"

Trolls: Drum Drum

Explorers: "To boldly go... somewhere"

Scouts: "Peek-a-boo, I see you!"

Beknighted "We are the Knights that say... Bees!"

Knights: "We're Knights that Fight...."

Guards: "Welcome Home"

Hoplites: "Hop Hop, Jump"

Archers: "Trolls Eye!"

"Come on, you apes!  You wanta live forever?"
--Unknown platoon sergeant, 1918

(preface from Heinlein's Starship Troopers (great book, horrible movie)

Heinlein's quote is based upon:

"Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"

--Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly* during the Battle pf Belleau Wood, when, besieged, outnumbered, outgunned, and pinned down, he led his men in attack.

*Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly (November 11, 1873 – April 27, 1937) was a United States Marine and one of only 19 men to have received the Medal of Honor twice.

The original quote's language is likely too 'salty' but Heinlein's catchy version would make a good substitute.

A lot of people are giving a unit name and an quote for that unit. If you read Frogboy's post closely, the game is going to suggest a random unit name and a random quote.

I'd suggest the game have a button we can hit to see a pick list of unit names and their quotes. Random isn't sounding too useful.

More random quotes:

'You cannot test my patience, for that is something I do not have.'

'Die when you are spoken to.'

'I live for <insert Empire/Kingdom name here>.'

'I die for <insert Empire/Kingdom name here>.'

'I kill for <insert Empire/Kingdom name here>.'

'I <insert verb here> for <insert Empire/Kingdom name here>.'

'The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.'

'Do not be so quick to deal out death in judgement.'

'You do not see what lies ahead, when sun is faded and moon is dead.'

'There can be only one.'

'I dare what you dare not.'

'There are older and fouler things in the deep places of the world.'

'Power is but a wreckless dream, and I am the dream catcher.'

I second this.

I've devided my suggestions into Serious and Non-Serious lists, as I'm not sure which direction was wanted.

Serious:
Infantry/Foot Units:
Peasant
'From the people, for the people.'

Militia
'Live or die; glory is forever.'

Guard
'A broad shield shall hold back the tide.'

Swordsmen
'Battles are decided on the edge of a Sword.'

Knights
'My life for the Sovreign!'

Royal Guardian
'Die as you live; in service to the Sovreign.'

Eternal Knight
'By the sword shall the Soverign's will be done'

Mounted Units:
Rider
'A swift mount is a man's best friend'

Scout
'Fight or flee; the faster the better'

Mounted Swordsmen
'Only the swift can outrun death'

Calvary
'Skill and speed shall see it done'

Heavy Calvary
'There is no dishonour in a quick Death'

Champion Knight
'Ride in the name of the Sovreign!'

Beast Lord
'No man nor beast shall stem the Sovreign's will'

Not Serious:
Infantry/Foot Units:
Working Class Man
'It's hard to make a living...'

Armed Peon
'Dey told me to stick da pointy end into da 'udder guy!'

Grunt
'Urgh'

Soldier
'Wait, we're getting paid for this, right?'

Pikemen
'It's 12 foot long and makes men cry. Wanna touch it?'

Night
'NIGH!'

Guard
'Can't touch this'

Royal Guard
'All work and no play. Ever'

Mounted Units:
Mounted Man
'That's what she said'

Scout
'No thanks, seen it already'

Heavy Calvary
'Boom boom, shake the room!'

Mounted Guard
'To protect and sever'

Mounted Knight
'I came, I saw, I conquered!'

Death Bringer
'Killing people makes me happy!'

"For unit names I lean towards the side of practicality - a player can then decide something "fancier" later. I do think a system where armor and weapon levels/types play into it would give enough flavor... so units with high move/speed could be "scouts" or "rangers". Armor types Light/Medium/Heavy... weapon types, archers, longbowmen, spearmen, swordsmen etc."    Agreed.

"I'd suggest the game have a button we can hit to see a pick list of unit names and their quotes. Random isn't sounding too useful."   Agreed, except maybe have a "try again" button like we have in the beta for city name, world names etc.

Anyway, I care more about meaningful unit names.  I'll pretty much accept & ignore whatever you do with units quotes.

Everybody loves WARHAMMER quotes, so here are some Warhammer 40.000 quotes

• A good soldier obeys without question. A good officer commands without doubt
• For those who seek perfection there can be no rest on this side of the grave
• Knowledge is power, guard it well
• Success is commemorated; Failure merely remembered
• Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life

• Only in death does duty end
• No man died in His service that died in vain
• Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment
• There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt
• Educate men without faith and you but make them clever devils

• Success is measured in blood; yours or your enemy´s
• The man who has nothing can still have faith
• It is better to die for the Sovereign than to live for yourself
• Happiness is a delusion of the weak
• Life is the Sovereigns currency, spend it well

• A suspicious mind is a healthy mind
• Cowards die in shame
• True Happiness stems only from Duty
• There is only the Sovereign, and he is our shield and protector
• To Question is to doubt

• He who keeps silent consents
• Prayer cleanses the soul, Pain cleanses the body
• Death by thy Compass
• Zeal is its own Excuse
• Work earns Salvation

• Without him there is nothing
• Only the Sovereign is all
• Hatred is the Sovereigns greatest gift to humanity
• Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none
• For the Sovereign!

• Cleanse, Purge, KILL!
• Walk softly, and carry a big gun
• NONE CAN WITHSTAND OUR FAITH!
• He who stands with me shall be my brother
• Despair, for I am the end of days

• Who are you to order me, fool?
• Don't think you can order me around

http://wiki.reliccommunity.com/Dawn_of_War:_Quotes

That wasn't the page I used, but there are all of'em.

My favorite quote comes from the icewind dale series but i'm sure it can be tweaked to fit elemental.

"Here I come and the hells come with me."

The quote works best for a heavy melee unit

I've seen it paraphrased here but it is IMO better to go with the original:

"Speak softly and carry a big stick" -Theodore Rosevelt (who was quoting an African proverb so I guess it's not really the original)

Here are a few I thought of....  Some would only work for specialized characters, such as champions or other units, etc.  Others would be more generalizable.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once (W. Shakespeare).  

Death and dice level all distinctions (Samuel Foote).

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come (V. Hugo).

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage (Anais Nin).

Every man dies, but not every man really lives [William Wallace (Braveheart)].

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds [J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting Bhagavad-Gita at the detonation of the first A-bomb)]

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.  When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. (F. Nietzsche).

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet (St. Augustine).  

Preach the gospel everyday; if necessary, use words (St. Francis of Assisi).  

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock (Will Rogers).  

What we do in life echoes an eternity [Maximus (Gladiator)].  

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light (F. Kafka).  

Not all who wander are lost (J.R.R. Tolkein).

I would also hope that some more humerous things get incorporated.  Quotes from the Evil Dead Series, or similar things, would be much appreciated.  

In one of the earlier betas I had a unit type that had as little training and armor as possible and called it "Useless Fodder"

That name would fit better if it were used for a summonable horde of extremely weak units (trash golems? undead that have been digested by some large animal?)



Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward, that’s how it is usually read. You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do. It’s all the same to us. – J.R.R. Tolkien,The Hobbit

EDIT: "Wonna see a magic trick? I'm going to make this (noun) disappear."

Your words are as empty as your future.  I am the vanguard of your destruction.  This exchange is over. - Mass Effect

"Pointy end goes where?"

"The secret is to stab them until they die."

"Stabbity stabbity stab stab stab!"

"Look! A diversion!"

"Time to thin the herd."

"Why blot out the sun when you can just put out their eyes?"

"I've hunted smarter prey than you."

"I bring the pain!"

'I think this place would look better in red."

"When in doubt, wipe them out."

"Remember: It's pillage, THEN burn."

"Eyes of the Kingdom, so they tell me..."

"What? Attack'em with this?!"

"This is better than the gallows..."

"I aven't eaten this good in years..."

Quote: "This is it!"

Archer - "Those who fight and run away live to fight another day.  Unless they have bows and arrows.."

Legion of Blood

"Peace is our profession...."

Riff Raff

“Give me a bit of Wood with a nail in the end, and I'll give you the world”

I always liked the quotes from Warcraft II that you heard when clicking on a unit several times in a row. Especially the footmen were quite funny. They would at some point go all pissy about signing up for duty. " 'Join the army' they said... 'See the world' they said..." "I'd rather be sailing." The voice acting was brilliant here as the footman really sounded annoyed finding himself in some remote place where he never expected himself to be. Classic.

The death knight - or what was the name of this magician unitof the orc that rode a skeleton horse and had his face hidden under a hood - was also awesome. I forgot what he said exectly, but at some point he would go silent upon clicking him, then he would scream "Stop that incessant clicking!" until when he was pushed to far he would say "When my work is finished I'm coming back for you'."

These quotes are probably not very easy to use or usedul for me to post, but I thought I'd share them.

Since not all races have a moral values that reflect ours, at least a few quotes should be about it being pleasant to deliver pain to enemies and how blood will be drawn to please long forgotten gods and such. The quotes about heroics are still mandatory of course, but there should also be some quotes that some hidious evel being may say.

Here is a mixture of heroic and dark quotes:

"None take these walls whilst we still draw breath!"

"Chances of violence in the near future are rising... Excellent."

"We shall display the heads of our enemies on pikes so all can see what happens to those who defy us."

"Not even the titans shall stand between us and victory."

"We shall stand against the hordes of evil and fight 'till the last man, lest we shall shall see everything we love and hold dear defiled."

"Bow down, mortals! Cower in fear!"

"Sledgehammer, meet some face. Face, this is sledgehammer."

"Tonight, the soil will turn red."

"For what was sone to my family, there is no excuse. May the Gods show them no mercy like they showed no mercy to us."

A meager try to translate (from Danish) a quote that my fathers teacher in german taught him (I know this is far out but anyway)

"Somebody never learns - others even later"

Edit: And another:

"Same old story - same old song"

Yes, some of those were great...

But I'd also consider going with some classic war quotes. Some suggestions...

• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.  ~Bertrand Russell
• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"  ~Eve Merriam
• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.  ~Napoleon
• A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.  ~German Proverb
• The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.  ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up
• Draft beer, not people.  ~Attributed to Bob Dylan
• Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978
• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.  ~Ernest Hemingway
• War makes thieves and peace hangs them.  ~George Herbert
• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.  ~Jeanette Rankin
• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.  ~José Narosky
• War would end if the dead could return.  ~Stanley Baldwin
• War! that mad game the world so loves to play.  ~Jonathan Swift
• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.  ~Voltaire, War
• The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.  ~Henry Fosdick
• In war, truth is the first casualty.  ~Aeschylus
• Only the dead have seen the end of war.  ~Plato
• We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.  ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.  ~Bertrand Russell, attributed
• You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.  ~Albert Einstein
• I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography.  ~Paul Rodriguez
• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.  ~Thomas Mann
• War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.  ~Dick Motta
• Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.  ~Gandhi
• The military don't start wars.  Politicians start wars.  ~William Westmoreland
• We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.  ~Author Unknown
• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.  ~Otto Von Bismark
• Older men declare war.  But it is the youth that must fight and die.  ~Herbert Hoover
• A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil.  ~William Hooke
• Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?  ~Holly Near
• The death of one man is a tragedy.  The death of millions is a statistic.  ~Joe Stalin
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.  ~George Patton
• You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.  ~Will Rogers
• I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.  ~Georges Clemenceau
• A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.  ~Winston Churchill

Oops... Double post...

For a list of unit names go here. Anything I can think of is likely already there.

• "To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths."
• "If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me."
• "Believe, Obey, Fight."
• "Bows will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."
• "Terrorism is the best weapon, for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
• "Faith, Hope, Vitality."