Mexico

Mexico (MEX) Ship Namelists

Source file: common/units/names_ships/MEX_ship_names.txt

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Overview

The Armada de México (Mexican Navy) trace their origins to the War of Independence and the historic capture of the Spanish stronghold of San Juan de Ulúa in November 1825 under Commodore Pedro Sainz de Baranda. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, Mexico maintained an active coastal gunboat and transport fleet (Zaragoza, Bravo, Morelos, Veracruz), and in April 1914 saw naval action during the defense of Veracruz against US landing forces and the naval engagement at the Battle of Topolobampo. During the interwar and Cárdenas administrations, modern gunboats and escorts (Guanajuato, Durango, Querétaro, Potosí) were ordered from Spanish and domestic yards, followed by World War II convoy escort and anti-submarine operations in the Gulf of Mexico following the sinking of the tankers Potrero del Llano and Faja de Oro.

In vanilla Hearts of Iron IV, Mexico's ship namelist file (MEX_ship_names.txt) suffered from extensive structural and historical issues:

• Verbatim Cruiser Cloning: Light cruisers (MEX_CL_HISTORICAL) and heavy cruisers (MEX_CA_HISTORICAL) were verbatim identical 16-name lists.
• Verbatim Capital Ship Cloning: Battleships (MEX_BB_HISTORICAL) and battlecruisers (MEX_BC_HISTORICAL) were verbatim identical 8-name lists.
• Submarine Roster Duplication: Submarines (MEX_SS_HISTORICAL) was an exact duplicate of the admirals/heroes subset from the destroyer roster.
• Doctrinal Blur & Kitchen Sink Lists: Destroyers mixed Aztec emperors, admirals, state names, rivers, and weather descriptors in a single unstructured list.
• Severe Typographical & Date Errors: Included corrupted names like "Chuela" (likely intended as Cholula), "Zacatacas" (Zacatecas), and the anachronistic "18 de Mayo" (instead of Cinco de Mayo).
• Inconsistent Nahuatl Diacritics: Inconsistent accents between lists (e.g. Quetzalcóatl vs. Quetzalcoatl, Netzahualcóyotl vs. Nezahualcoyotl).
• Mixed Deities and Monarchs: Vanilla's Aztec-themed pool blended mythic deities with historical tlatoanis.
• Missing Fallback Names: Thematic pools lacked fallback naming templates.

ISNE completely overhauls Mexican naval namelists into a clean 20-group architecture:

• Splitting capital ships by doctrine: battleships carry historical regions and the states of the federation, battlecruisers carry coastal fortresses, decisive battles, historic warships and pre-Columbian sea kingdoms, with no name shared between them.
• Providing dedicated, doctrine-aligned rosters across all combat hulls.
• Establishing 13 universal thematic pools in the Ship Designer.
• Authenticity over Artificial Padding: The MEX_ADMIRALS roster ("Naval Heroes") holds 24 sourced naval figures of every rank, from the founders of the navy in the 1820s and the defenders of Veracruz in 1914 to the career officers who later led the Secretariat of the Navy. The October 2026 audit removed nine names that could not be traced to a source and one army general, and added only figures that could be. The list stays below the 35-name target rather than being padded.
• Ideological Separation: Slogans and concepts from opposing political paths are strictly segregated into dedicated pools, each gated by the ruling ideology through can_use: Republican Ideals under democratic or non-aligned governments (Mexico's non-aligned government is the revolutionary republic), Socialist Ideals under communism, and Nationalist Ideals under fascism.

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Namelist Groups

Ship-Type Specific Category

Dedicated namelists tied to specific ship hulls and naval classifications:

Group Tag	Type	Ship Types	Sample Names
MEX_DD_HISTORICAL	Destroyers & Escorts	ship_hull_light destroyer	Juan Aldama, Mariano Matamoros, Hermenegildo Galeana, Francisco Xavier Mina, Santos Degollado, Jesús González Ortega, Felipe Ángeles, Salvador Alvarado, Lucio Blanco, Manuel Diéguez
MEX_SS_HISTORICAL	Submarines	ship_hull_submarine submarine	Tiburón, Delfín, Ballena, Manta, Raya, Pulpo, Cachalote, Barracuda, Pez Espada, Tláloc, Chalchiuhtlicue, Chaac, Huixtocíhuatl, Opochtli, Atlaua, Amimitl
MEX_CL_HISTORICAL	Light Cruisers	ship_hull_cruiser light_cruiser	Ensenada, Guaymas, Mazatlán, San Blas, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Acapulco, Salina Cruz, Tampico, Tuxpan, Veracruz, Coatzacoalcos, Campeche, Progreso, Chetumal
MEX_CA_HISTORICAL	Heavy Cruisers	ship_hull_cruiser heavy_cruiser	Miguel Hidalgo, José María Morelos, Benito Juárez, Ignacio Zaragoza, Francisco I. Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Álvaro Obregón, Cuauhtémoc, Cuitláhuac, Nezahualcóyotl, Moctezuma
MEX_BB_HISTORICAL	Battleships	ship_hull_heavy battleship	Anáhuac, Nueva España, Nueva Galicia, Tenochtitlan, Aztlán, México, Jalisco, Puebla, Guanajuato, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Yucatán, Oaxaca, Michoacán
MEX_BC_HISTORICAL	Battlecruisers	ship_hull_heavy battle_cruiser	San Juan de Ulúa, Fuerte de San Diego, Baluarte de Santiago, Monte de las Cruces, Puente de Calderón, Chapultepec, Churubusco, Cinco de Mayo, Dos de Abril, Celaya, Mayapán, Chichén Itzá, Tzintzuntzan
MEX_CV_HISTORICAL	Aircraft Carriers	ship_hull_carrier carrier	República, Independencia, Libertad, Democracia, Soberanía, Revolución, Constitución, Águila Real, Quetzal, Cóndor, Huitzilopochtli, Tonatiuh, Ehécatl

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Universal Thematic Topic Category (Ship Designer)

Universal selection pools available for any ship hull or squadron in the Ship Designer:

Group Tag	Topic Name	Ship Types	Sample Names
MEX_ADMIRALS	Naval Heroes	Universal	Pedro Sainz de Baranda, David Porter, Virgilio Uribe, Blas Godínez, Tomás Marín, Manuel Azueta, José Azueta, Othón P. Blanco, Hilario Rodríguez Malpica, Sebastián José Holzinger
MEX_SAINTS	Saints	Universal	San Blas, Santa Cruz, San Ignacio, San Francisco Javier, Santo Tomás, San Telmo, Santa Bárbara, San Miguel, San Gabriel, San Rafael, Virgen de Guadalupe, San Felipe de Jesús
MEX_PORTS	Ports	Universal	Ensenada, Guaymas, Mazatlán, San Blas, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Zihuatanejo, Acapulco, Salina Cruz, Tampico, Tuxpan, Veracruz, Coatzacoalcos, Campeche, Progreso
MEX_WATERS	Bodies of Water	Universal	Golfo de México, Golfo de California, Mar de Cortés, Bahía de Banderas, Bahía de Acapulco, Laguna de Términos, Laguna de Chapala, Lago de Pátzcuaro, Canal de Yucatán
MEX_RULERS	Monarchs & Rulers	Universal	Acamapichtli, Itzcóatl, Moctezuma Ilhuicamina, Axayácatl, Nezahualcóyotl, Agustín de Iturbide, Maximiliano, Antonio de Mendoza, Bernardo de Gálvez, Carlos V, Felipe II
MEX_REPUBLICAN_IDEALS	Republican Ideals	Universal	República, Independencia, Libertad, Democracia, Soberanía, Constitución, Sufragio Efectivo, No Reelección, Pacto Federal, Estado Laico, Garantías Individuales
MEX_SOCIALISM	Socialist Ideals	Universal	Justicia Social, Reforma Agraria, Tierra y Libertad, Derechos Obreros, Educación Laica, Solidaridad Obrera, Emancipación Proletaria, Comuna, Sindicato, Expropiación Petrolera
MEX_NATIONALISM	Nationalist Ideals	Universal	Viva Cristo Rey, Sinarquismo, Hispanidad, Tradición, Patria y Fe, Dios Patria Libertad, Cruzada, Orden Nuevo, Disciplina, Camisas Doradas, Imperio Mexicano, Raza Cósmica
MEX_MYTHOLOGY	Mythology	Universal	Quetzalcóatl, Tezcatlipoca, Tláloc, Huitzilopochtli, Xipe Tótec, Mictlantecuhtli, Kukulkán, Chaac, Ixchel, Itzamná, Ah Puch, Kinich Ahau, Hunahpú, Ixbalanqué
MEX_BIRDS	Birds	Universal	Águila Real, Águila Arpía, Quetzal, Halcón Peregrino, Cóndor, Gavilán, Zopilote, Búho, Lechuza, Gaviota, Pelícano, Albatros, Flamenco, Tucán, Guacamaya
MEX_STATES	States	Universal	México, Distrito Federal, Jalisco, Puebla, Guanajuato, Chiapas, Nuevo León, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán, Sinaloa
MEX_CITIES	Cities	Universal	Ciudad de México, Guadalajara, Puebla, Tijuana, León, Monterrey, Culiacán, Mérida, San Luis Potosí, Hermosillo, Saltillo, Querétaro, Morelia, Toluca, Oaxaca
MEX_RIVERS	Rivers	Universal	Río Bravo, Río Colorado, Río Lerma, Río Balsas, Río Usumacinta, Río Grijalva, Río Papaloapan, Río Coatzacoalcos, Río Pánuco, Río Yaqui, Río Mayo, Río Fuerte