Names

[Foot]

It is impossible to connect a general's ethnicity to their name. Both ethnicity and name are random (unless they are inherited from their father if they are a son born into the family tree).

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[antisocialmunky]

Can't you replace the surname(what's rendered as the surname in RTW anyways) with a title like "The Conqueror"? What would stop you from using that thing?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

That's what is done with the Romans, now. However, that took like 6 months of work by dedicated people.

[Foot]

And that relies on a ethnicity system and naming system that are concerned with the same thing. For the Hellenes, the ethnicity system describes where they came from, their surname follows their family. For the Romans, the ethnicity system describes their family as does their surname. I think most Barbarian factions have it the other way round, both the ethnicity and the surname (through epithets) describe where they came from not a family name.

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[Tellos Athenaios]

And you can always pretend that (which isn't terribly a-historical either) your guy M. Lakedaimonios from Korinthos (which is what the ethnicity Korinthios says) is actually:

M. from a migrated branch of some Lakedaimonios family which happened to settle in Korinthos. So he is Korinthios (by birth) but called Lakedaimonios (family heritage).

[Klearchos]

Ok.. I just asked if that was aproblem that could be solved...For more historical accuracy only.

[Atilius]

That's what is done with the Romans, now. However, that took like 6 months of work by dedicated people.

Would you believe it if I told you that jackass still isn't done?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Since you created it, I think I had better believe you...?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I'm still awed that you guys got it working as well as you have. I can't even begin to fathom what that would take to get working on the Greek side.

I would follow Tellos' advice - roleplay it so that it works. It isn't hard when you have Thessalians in Baktria, etc. - so much movement in this time period, that this sort of thing isn't too unusual.

[Long lost Caesar]

personally i dont mind if the names are slightly off, as long as it has something to do with the major ethnicity of a character, and i think that it would save the guys from (IMO) stupid stuff like getting the names right and allow them to do some more needed things. after, EB II will take long enough to come out without some poor lad having to make sure the names are absolutely perfect.