Definitely. Because if we’re going to play with man-dollies (and we are) we’d better get some decent stories of their adventures in 100 Acre Wood My Little Ponyland the Human Sphere too. For those who haven't read them yet, @Danger Rose’s Wrecking Belles are stories from dramatized battle reports so good it’s sometimes hard to realise they're bat-reps at all!
My entire QK force is named, even units I rarely use. I mostly focus on my ghulam Core link characters though. With Haqq though, I actually rarely have fully dead miniatures, only unconscious. I also revive a lot (WIP 17 doctors, thanks!) So actually changing Lhosts is fairly low. My robots on the other hand, those buggers get wrecked. I use Remotes a LOT for offensive and specialist missions because I can buff them. But! They are Ghost so their programs are not stored in the remote. Further, Yaun Yauns dont get names.
With my NCA army (and all the Vanilla stuff that was in the case with them) stolen, I guess I will have to come up with new names for my guys. I have a page of names that I used to track the various troopers, through Flamestrike and Wotan to Kurage. Hmmn, perhaps I should write a short story covering the destruction of their assault transport
Ouch! That really sucks. If you re-buy the army, you need to paint your new guys with some 'remember the fallen' armbands or something.