What is in a name?

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  • #151784
    Tokhuah
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    What was Warlord thinking when they decided to use a dad joke level name for their new fantasy game? What’s next, and arena battle-bot game: Tobor Sraw?!

    #151793
    Bungo
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    I agree, reversing nowhere is not exactly a triumph for branding.

    Looking forward to seeing the rest of the models though.

    #151920
    Charge The Guns
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    If any of the Wombles were to see the funny side I would have thought it would have been you, Bungo!

    #151960
    Layth AL-Najjar
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    I like ti. There’s a niatrec ring to hcus a cliche. Fi only I dah notice it renoos.

    Warlord and Priestley is bring kitsch back to gnimagraw! 😀

    #152149
    Tom R
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    Erewhon backwards is nohwere.

    #152491
    Wesley Myers
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    I agree, it’s a terrible (or at least not very good) name!

    Perhaps it was an inside joke/statement by someone who works at Warlord and it was never noticed.

    Or maybe it was by a few disgruntled employees who wanted to make a statement of what they thought of the rules/game/use of Wargames Factory figures at very inflated prices?

    Perhaps a statement on how they suspect the game will be supported after it is made (like “Project Z” that was just left to die).

    #152746
    Michael
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    The name has more behind it than you think. It is the title of a fairly famous book, you know the sort, one that everyone has heard of but no one has actually read.
    Wikipedia link here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

    Not that I am saying it is appropriate of course but it does have some ‘bottom’ to it.

    #153418
    Andy Bryant
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    But…….Do you want a game of WoE?

    😁

    #154571
    Eric Dewinter
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    As a french speaker, it is somehow strange and hard to pronounce “Erewhon”. I think it can affect its sales on non-english-speaking markets. Anyway, I will probably simply call it “Warlords” with my gamer friends.

    #154590
    auticus
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    We just call it the warlords of nowhere.

    #160326
    Matt
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    I have found that several online retailers misspell it as ‘Erewhon’. That is the spelling for Butler’s 1872 novel.

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