Firstly, a short piece of history about the community accepted naming conventions:
Way back before ATT, there was MTT - Mechanised Tau Tactica, an MSN group. The Tau were a new race, young and inexperienced - the novel Crisis Battlesuit and its many and varied weapon loadouts had still to be fully tested and evaluated. It was here that the current nomenclature (and the now redundant Fish of Fury) was born, as a type of shorthand to make it easier to write some of the more overly long winded loadouts in army lists and battle reports. Over time, the better, and more useful weapon combinations were so widely used they were found to be worthy of their pseudonym. Other, less useful loadouts still have names under the convention, but since virtually nobody actually uses them they remain mostly unknown compared to the Fireknife, Deathrain and such.
You might notice that non-XV8-weapon systems such as the drone controller, the smart missile system, the blacksun filter, the disruption pod and the markerlight were only given letters as shorthand - DC, SMS, BSF, DP and ML respectively.

There is your answer right there.

The accepted naming convention for non-XV8-weapon systems is to shorten its name down to a few letters.

Forgeworld taking a heavy smart missile system, usually found only on Devilfish and XV88s, and plonking it onto an XV81 chasis doesnt just magically change its designation from SMS to some cool sounding adjective. If the SMS were to become available as a wargear choice for XV8 suits there might be a case for a new designation - such as when the AFP and CIB were introduced. But it isn't.

The XV81 has an SMS, thats why its called an XV81. You cant change that on the suit, its not exchangable - you get an XV81, you get an SMS. Everyone knows this already. Why does it need another name? To sound cool? So you can get credit for coming up with it?

Its superfluous. The whole idea of the naming conventions is shorthand. Not so something sounds cool.
'Fireknife' is easier to write than 'Plasma rifle and Missile Pod and multitracker'. The fact that it also sounds cool is just a bonus.

By all means, use your preferred name whenever you want, however you want. Just don't expect everyone (or anyone) to agree or even understand what you are talking about when you use it. There have already been other names put forward *within* this thread, and pretty much any adjective can be slapped on and argued for.
For example:
What about using 'Blind' because it doesnt need line of sight, or 'A.I.' because the missiles of the SMS are controlled by Drone artificial intelligence, or my favourite - 'Foooooooshhhommmmm!!!', because thats the sound the missiles make when they launch.
All of these are as relevant and fitting as your choice of 'Brimstone'. You might not think so, but thats not my problem.

Remember, its the in-game usefulness of the loadout combination that over time eventually gains it a widely accepted pseudonym, not how cool it sounds. And the XV81 is never going to gain that amount of in-game usefulness. Ever.

The vehicle names are Imperial designations (a Devilfish is also smaller type of Manta ray, famous for jumping out of the water), as is the Damocles gulf crusade. However the names for the configurations are used by the Tau and were originally in a WD article that has been transcribed here if you've not had a chance to read it before. There's a couple of official ones as well that don't see widespread use, largely because they're a bit rubbish - the original ones were either Monat or Ta'ro'cha configurations and quite a few had squads with mismatched weapons.

Fio' El's Workshop echoes my main point - that the original designations came from a WD article and therefore had a fairly large initial base of readers who would have some familiarity with the term. ATT just isn't big enough to really come up with a name for the sake of a name even if we were all on board with the idea. However, coming up with a loadout variant (either individual or for a squad) is something that might just spread - there's a plenty of people talking about the updates on other blogs and forums, along with Zone Mortalis stuff that you could easily come up with a interesting configuration - have a few games on it and then spread that knowledge elsewhere. It's at that point you might find a shorthand is useful and sticks, especially if when you mention it you have a handy article written up that lays out the theory and the pros and cons you've experienced.

I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart for trying to add something to the community following existing conventions. You've successfully deterred me. I really appreciate the smug and patronizing tone towards the end, thanks. I came here expecting adult conversation that was constructive and collaborative, you've shown that's obviously not what you're here for. Thanks.

The Xv81 is equipped with a Smart Missile system as well as having 2 additional hardpoints to fill. I move that this be called the "Brimstone" pattern.

Really? Thats adult conversation?

You wanted a discussion, I gave you my point of view, you cant accept that I might not consider your idea is as fantasitic as you think it is, so you reply with nothing but sarcasm.



Why is your idea for a name better than mine?

It doesnt matter if you are following community accepted naming conventions or not, you are not going to get consensus from the majority of any community.
The best you can do is to start writing a plethora of battle reports, spam the web with your choice of name and hope it catches on.

Thats not condesending, thats called being a realist.

I think a post per configuration, or possibly per 'tactical problem', would make the most sense. Make it easier to turn into into a tactica for the loadout once the details have been hammered out without the discussion getting held up at the last minute by tangents relating to other configurations and loadouts.

I would listen to the 'Ui, Shas'saal. Their rank here is earned. It is never worth sacrificing the moral high ground, especially as Tau.

Be tactful in what you say around here, it is expected. "Well-written, respectful dialogue is part of what distinguishes ATT, and we take it very seriously."

Got it! I'll start writing.

Thanks.

Out of curiosity, what load out, or sort of load out were you thinking of? Also a Monat or Ta'ro'cha?

Mind elaborating more on how you're using them, especially in concert. Also you might consider naming the commanders with how you want to name the configs. It might aid you in getting people to go for. And I must say good luck, it'll be very difficult for the above reasons.