team "names"

[syborg]

What's up with the team names that appear on occasion above the team portraits, once assembled? Anything special?

[Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Hopefully someone can answer?
I have two theories:
a) They're just for comic relief.
b) They're common placement strategies that the game recognizes and so it's notifying you of it? I really don't know honestly.

[Solo Death]

Some teams have names just because they do, for as far as I can tell. I believe some are for common teams that are commonly used (For instance, The Usual Suspects is the 4 classes you start out with, in the order of Crusader, Highwayman, Plague Doctor, Vestal from front to back), and some are just for comic relief such as a quad Jester comp gets named (the name itself escapes me, however).

[Algol]

I was wondering about that too. Actually wanted to start a thread but you beat me to it. I had at least three different names for my teams, but the only one I remember is the Usual Suspects. I'll keep an eye if some more will show up.

[syborg]

I'll have to start screenshotting them for later analysis.

[ThatStrangeGuy]

http://darkestdungeon.gamepedia.com/Party_Combos

Nothing special, purely cosmetic.

[syborg]

There we go - thanks!

[Balgin Stondraeg]

It's worth noting that the Man-at-Arms, the Arbalest and the Antiquarian had not yet been released when these party names were implemented. That's why they don't appear in any of the named party lineups. Most of these party names were suggested by the community at the time (I know I'm responsible for Vengeance Dire which stems from a time when at least one of the characters in that party behaved significantly differently but it's still a fun party to play).

[Ashe]

I noticed that the Arbalest, Antiquarian, Abomination and Houndmaster aren't represented in that lineup.

They should do a little collab with the community before the new dlc.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Yep, my new party recommendation would be The Wall (Crusader, Man-at-Arms, Vestal, Arbalest). Oh wait, that wasn't The Wall. The Wall was something like Hellion, Man-at-Arms, Antiquarian, Plague Doctor or Man-at-Arms, Bounty Hunter, Antiquarian, Arbalest.

Essentially the Antiquarian forces the non Man-at-Arms front ranker to protect her, the Man-at-Arms protects the fourth party member, you have almost complete control over who gets hit, condition removal for the plague doctor or healing from the arbalest (or marking with the bounty hunter and shooting with her). It might have included a Leper in the front rank (for the Antiquarian to be guarded by).

It's been a while since I last ran that party but it was surprisingly enjoyable.