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!"

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.

I second this.

"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.

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

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.  

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

"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..."

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

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."

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

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."