Soldiers' Names

[zatarra86]

Something I loved in the original game was that the soldiers had 'mixed names'; you often got some funny combinations, like Anatoly Fukushima etc. This gives the impression that this society in the not-to-distant-future is very cosmopolitan, with many multi-ethnic families. I'm glad that the soldiers' names are no longer euro-centric (now there are Arabic, Kenyan, Polynesian ones etc.) but Arabic first names are always paired with Arabic surnames and so on.

[Sharp]

Pairing names by nationality was in original though. In fact even though it was supposed to be hard to get soldiers with the same name I almost always seemed to have a Jurgen Meyer and a Jungo Iwahara every game. I don't recall ever getting a mixed nationality like Jungo Meyer though.

The .nam files are easily editable though so if you want you can just combine them to get a huge list of first names and surnames.