Grousing about game titles

[prog]

You know, what kind of a name is "Command & Colors: Ancients" anyway? "Battle Cry" and "Memoir '44" are both far more evocative than "C & C: American Civil War" and "C & C: World War II Europe", respectively. The cheaper game components are one thing, but I don't think GMT can use the excuse of a smaller budgets than Hasbro or Days of Wonder, here.

"Ancients" isn't even very specific as to which ancients we are dealing with, even though the game is specifically about battle tactics used by Rome and Carthage during the Punic Wars. I would have been a lot happier if someone did the typical dealie of grabbing a sentence fragment from some chronologically appropriate speech and making that the title.

Other than that though, I really enjoyed this game and will buy a copy when I can afford to do so. If you enjoyed either of the other two Command & Colors games you will like it too.

Comments

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Just come up with a better name, and institute a house rule that you use that instead. (We did something like that with Pikemen IceChess for a while.)

[dougo.livejournal.com]

It's better than The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Card Game. (And I think there are actually two different games with that name.)