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There's a few ways to do this but none of them are particularly clean. You'll also run into the issue of having to create a rather large bank of names to prevent duplicates from occurring often.

Random_action
Random action is what you'll be using to randomize the squads. Each sub action ha a weight which is explained in the description in AE. Add all squads with custom names to this action.

1. Reinforcement ability
By using an ability this has the benefit of preserving the rally point. The downside is that it cannot be queued. You can offset this by using more reinforcements to spawn more squads per ability use.

2. Production buildings
Buildings, by default, cannot spawn random squads. Instead you'll have to make a dummy squad. In the dummy squad use the random_action then make_dead; the order of actions matter so make sure it's make_dead last. Unfortunately rally points are not preserved as the dummy unit is killed, however this allows for queuing.

3. UI modifier icon
Instead of having the randomized names within the squad itself you could have them in a modifier icon (the same kind that are used for buffs). You could even have unique portraits for each soldier and each can be visible within a squad.

The Paratrooper abilities has several components to it that aren't exactly intuitive. Let's go through the different parts.

• abilities\aef\modal_ability\dispatch_ability\paratroopers_paradrop_mp
  
  • paradrop_action
    The only purpose of this action I think is UI related. It does not have to be changed at all within your cloned ability.
    
  • air_strike_action
    This spawns an aircraft squad. The aircraft is actually what creates the paratroopers.
    
  
  
• sbps\races\aef\vehicles\paradrop_plane\paratroopers_plane_paras
  Make a clone for this.
  
• ebps\races\aef\pm\vehicles\paradrop_plane\pm_aef_airborne_paratroopers_plane_paras
  Make a clone for this and link it to to the cloned aircraft squad.
  
  • flight_ext\actions
    Change the squad_to_spawn to whatever squad you want. There's several requirement_actions so you'll have to clean them up depending on your mod.
    

The AI will choose whatever option within a building that has the highest priority (note this 'priority' is separate from utility and I don't know the specifics of how the AI calculates this). So, for example, when given the option to build a 0 cost upgrade or something like engineers it might choose engineers first. It is for this reason that those hidden AI upgrades should be put in a building that has no other functionality like weapon racks.

• Weapon category. Create a new clone of the weapon that you want to base it off of. Set weapon_bag\behavior\enable_auto_target_search: true. You may also have to edit some other values to make it behave how you want. We will call this weapon B.
  
• Ebps category. Create a new hardpoint in combat_ext\hardpoints\1.hardpoint\2.weapon and assign weapon B. You can copy the heading and origin values from 1.weapon (we will call this weapon A, which you should leave untouched.)
  
• Ability category. Create a new toggle ability. In action_list\start_self_actions make a change_weapon for hardpoint 1 that changes to weapon B. In action_list\end_self_actions make a change_weapon for hardpoint 1 that changes to weapon A.
  

In short the howitzer entity will have 2 weapons on its 1st hardpoint; weapon A (the default) and weapon B (the clone). The toggle ability will be able to switch between these weapons.

This is a simple way to do it. The ones used in the default game such as the Sherman AP/HE system uses a more complicated method that includes upgrades and timed abilities which you can use as reference if you'd like to do that. Things may not be perfect when using weapon B in conjunction with barrage abilities.

Under sbps>ui>voice there will be different voice codes, these are usually 2 or 3 letters long. Voice codes are faction specific so you'll have to make a separate ui category for each faction. Copy the codes from the German Stug UI and paste them in your custom Hetzer.