"Battle for Skull Pass: The Rejected Titles?" Topic

When coming out with a new product in the competitive field of fantasy wargaming, it is always important to select a product name which is inventive, fresh, and yet resonates with the target audience.

Of course, Battle for Skull Pass was not the only title considered by Games Workshop management – some of the alternate titles, almost good enough for the marketplace, were…

[violent event] [preposition] [fantasy noun/adjective] [geographical location]

[violent events]
Fight
Battle
Massacre
Struggle

[prepositions]
at
over
in
for

[fantasy nouns/adjectives]
Troll
Orc
Blood
Ghost
Chaos
Dark

[geographical location]
Sea
Mountain
Hill
City
Forest
Wood
Crag

Add, mix and match as you see fit…

Dude, it's GW. They have to include "Skull" somewhere.

Battle for Flagging Market Relevancy?

Last Stand before Creative Stagnation?

The Battle for Sea Bass

" Box of Crack: The Hook is Always a Great Deal"

I don't know what the other titles were but does the box clearly indicate it contains one fully functional lead treadmill???

Wow. I'm guessing we won't be seeing any GW advertisements on teh site any time soon

well we knew it needed skull or chain or spike in the title….

What's surprising is the restraint shown in going for skull singular.

From the creators of
"Struggle for Blood Forest"
and
"Fight for Death Plateau"
comes
"Battle for Skull Pass: This time, it's personal!"

Before Battle for Skull Pass there were the following titles (fantasy and Sci-fi titles included):

Battle of Pewter Pimp's Pass
Our Codex Ate Your Allowance
Unbeatable Army On Sale Now!
In the Shadow of Ethics

The Last of the Zoat-hicans
Burnt Umber, Eye of Terror
Helter Eldar Skelter
Aliens, Repackaged
Dark Eldar Love Glam Metal
The Squats?

Yo! Khorne Rows in the Hood of Middenheim
Bullwhips Over Some Slaneeshi's Lass
Papa Nurgle's Love Child's Revenge
Making Money is a Tzeentch!
The Token Resistance of the High Elves

Of course after this there will be:

"Ripped from the Headlines, The Battle for Skull Pass: Miami"

Well, judging from the outcomes of their worldwide campaigns they run every summer, they could've called it…

The Vaguely Inconclusive Affair At Some Geographic Location That Really Didn't Change Anything

Later,
Markus

Battle for Mommy's credit card

"When coming out with a new product in the competitive field of fantasy wargaming, it is always important to select a product name which is inventive, fresh, and yet resonates with the target audience."

"Prattle for the Numbskulls' Cash"

'The struggle for Puberty Knob' has a certain ring to it.

Always so asinine

Battle for Power Gamer Pass?
sub-title
Warhammer Fantasy: Buy it while the included armies are still valid

Skull Pass leads through the Spikey Bitz mountains, doesn't it?

The battle to stay in Profit?

The big box that dwarven players have been waiting for but will be bitterly upset as it's only got one sodding plastic sodding slayer in it when we need whole damn units the *********………

Warhammer VII: Return of the Squats

Warhammer: Your base are belong to us!

Correction:

Warhammer: ALL your base are belong to us!

Warhammer: Bangbus Edition

"The Rush Through the Lower Intestinal Tract" was thought to have a memorable impact, but was over-ruled by the "No Skull" rule. "The Rush of the Skull Through the Lower Intenstinal Tract" – while thought to be technically feasible – foundered due to taking up too much space on the box cover (although it was pointed out that the font could be … cramped).

Given that it's Dwarfs vs Goblins, Warhammer: Restricted Height Edition?

Bangbus ed – lol Sentient bean.

Battle for their pocket money till their balls drop?

The battle for slipping sales

The battle for next years bonus

The battle for market relevance

The battle for ……..

When Skulls Collide

Age and Treachery beats Youth and Skull

Age and Treachery beats Youth and Skull

Nah. That sounds more like PVP ( link ).

Whats odd is nothing ends with a "z". Battle for Skullz Pass

Battlez forz Skullz Pazz

Give Me your Hall Pass
so I can get my
Battle for Skull Pass
out of my
Junior high locker
before I
Tattle on your ass
my geeky preteen friends

the spider riders look great too

Given that it's Dwarfs vs Goblins, Warhammer: Restricted Height Edition?

This one made me laugh out loud. "Battle for Flagging Market Relevancy?" from Ivan DBA was also grand.

Amusing thread guys— thanks for the laughs.

Warhammer: Thanks for the Laughs

Warhammer: Battle for Skull Pass?

I should write a GW name generator program… <:)

Install python, and run the following handy script! Make your own GW style fantasy battle names!

## Cuts and paste into a file
## called makeName.py starting here
from random import choice

events = ["Battle","Massacre","Fight","Struggle","War"]
preps = ["at","over","for","in"]
adjs = ["Blood","Skull","Broken Sword","Bone","Giblet","Spleen","Liver"]
geos = ["Pass","Mountain","Plateau","Marsh","Forest","Crag","Wasteland","River"]

def makeName():
event = choice(events)
prep = choice(preps)
adj = choice(adjs)
geo = choice(geos)

chunks = [event, prep, adj, geo]

return " ".join(chunks)

if __name__ == "__main__":
print makeName()
print makeName()
print makeName()
print makeName()
print makeName()

Gah, it ate all the spacing/tabbing, so this won't necessarily work OOTB in python.

from random import choice

events = ["Battle","Massacre","Fight","Struggle","War","Conflict"]
preps = ["at","over","for","in"]
adjs = ["Blood","Skull","Broken Sword","Bone","Giblet","Spleen","Liver"]
geos = ["Pass","Mountain","Plateau","Marsh","Forest","Crag","Wasteland","River"]

def makeName():
event = choice(events)
prep = choice(preps)
adj = choice(adjs)
geo = choice(geos)

chunks = [event, prep, adj, geo]

return " ".join(chunks)

if __name__ == "__main__":
print makeName()
print makeName()
print makeName()
print makeName()
print makeName()

Nevermind then. It works if you fix the indentation. TMP Seems to like to eat whitespace.

Warahmer: Eater of whitespace

Warhammer: Eater of Literacy

Warhammer Fantasy: Maybe this one will sell!!

Dwarves and Goblins….hmmm
Warhammer Fantasy: Short subject collection

Wonder if the yellow brick road goes through Skull Pass
I see an army of dwarves singing as they go to war. "Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road, follow follow follow….