What is in a name?

[Tokhuah]

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?!

[Bungo]

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

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the models though.

[Charge The Guns]

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

[Layth AL-Najjar]

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! 😀

[Tom R]

Erewhon backwards is nohwere.

[Wesley Myers]

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).

[Michael]

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.

[Andy Bryant]

But…….Do you want a game of WoE?

😁

[Eric Dewinter]

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.

[auticus]

We just call it the warlords of nowhere.

[Matt]

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

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