Breakfast Topic: Is "For the Horde" obsolete?
by Chase Hasbrouck 
Mar 2nd 2012 at 8:00AM
The Forsaken are busy doing their own thing, as they always have. Vol'jin and the trolls were last seen sending emissaries to the Alliance to help contain the Zandalari. The tauren are still mourning Cairne and have little love for Garrosh. The blood elves lost their reason to stay in the Horde at the end of The Burning Crusade and seem to be sustained solely by inertia at this point. The only loyal Hordies left are the orcs themselves and the goblins, a race long known for their steadfast loyalties.
Of course, the Alliance isn't all too chummy, either. What do you think? Do the races need new battle cries, or will Mists of Pandaria spur a new wave of unity?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Revnah Mar 2nd 2012 8:02AM
I think "For Vol'jin" will do nicely ;-)
durandal Mar 2nd 2012 8:55AM
Jolly good!
When I was a member of an all-troll RP guild, we used to have "For Shirvallah!" macroed to the berserk racial. Great fun in raids and BGs! Even those RPers who were not playing Darkspears could agree with that shout.
However, I don't think "For the Horde" has become obsolete. There may be dissatisfaction with the current warchief, but not so much with the horde community as such.
Snuzzle Mar 2nd 2012 10:00AM
Exactly, durandal. You may not love a given president, but that doesn't mean you don't love America (or for our Canadian readers... uh, Canada has Pharoahs, right? :P)
eel5pe Mar 2nd 2012 10:21AM
Sorry, but when I hear "We are Alliance" I automatically tack on to the end "bum-bum-bum-bum-bum bum-bum!"
(prays that everyone knows what commercial I'm referring to)
hughcruickshank Mar 2nd 2012 1:46PM
@Snuzzle
Our current leader fancies himself a bit of a pharaoh, so I can see how you came to that conclusion. Canada's supposed to have Prime Ministers though. :)
Aldarion Mar 2nd 2012 5:26PM
I still like randomly yelling 'For Lor'themar!' when in a raid. Which always brings up the question 'Who the hell is that?'... And I suppose the Horde loved its leaders...
Oh yeah, they didn't get the memo all those years ago.
Aaaaand, my profile picture is featured! /swoon
Pyromelter Mar 3rd 2012 6:14AM
In WC3 trolls would proclaim "Vengeacne for Zul'Jin" - easily adapted for Vol'jin.
Every race had their own thing... "For Lordaeron!" "For Ironforge!" "For the tribes!" (tauren)
For the Horde was just orcs, although it's such a neat and compact thing it works well for the entire horde alliance of races.
"Al'Shar Thoribas!" was always a good one, I still can't get a translation though but it sounds cool, about as cool as "for the horde" in terms of the sound so... roll a nelf and go with that one.
Bobby Earl Mar 3rd 2012 6:34AM
Thanks a lot eel. I had just gotten that damned commercial out of my head when I read your post.
Bobby Earl Mar 3rd 2012 7:16AM
"Remember Lut Gholein!"
Muagen Mar 2nd 2012 8:08AM
Rawr! Bearclaw!
blackdynamiteandhiscrew Mar 2nd 2012 9:01AM
sploosh
BiPolarBoomkin Mar 2nd 2012 9:11AM
I risk so many tomatoes thrown at me here, but I want this post seen, and it will not be seen buried under so many other posts. So, bear with me while I throw in my two coppers...
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"Never surrender, never forget. We fight, we fight for memory. For king and country. Lux et Gloriam. We are Alliance."
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"Never surrender."
The Alliance is spearheaded by a tenacious people. They won't go down unless they're swinging, either with their fists or on the end of a hangman's rope.
"Never forget."
The past is their motivation. What was and what took away those halcyon days, and the dream of what is to come.
"We fight for memory."
The memory of their lost lands, their lost loved ones. Memory is honor and immortality.
"For king and country."
It may be King Varian, or just their leader in general. It may be Stormwind, or whatever territory still remains in the Alliance's grasp. It matters little, but for some, it is the leader and the land they represent that becomes their motivation.
"Lux et Gloriam."
Light and Glory. It could be the Light of Elune, or the very Light itself, or the illumination that imagination brings. Light leads to Glory. They go hand in hand. They empower us. They are our reward.
"We are Alliance."
This is our rallying cry. Our howl of unity. This is who we are. Our soul. Our definition. The lines are blurred. The color of our blood is mixed when it is spilled in battle. The sound of our voices becomes one deafening roar.
We. Are. Allliance.
And we come for you, Horde.
Imnick Mar 2nd 2012 9:36AM
Why not just "For Lordaeron"
It was where the Alliance started (including the Gilneans!) and it is currently at least partially held by the Horde who are using the site to do god knows what and therefore it is an excellent rallying point for the races who aren't Draenei.
Luotian Mar 2nd 2012 9:41AM
@BiPolarBoomkin: As a die-hard Hordie...those last two lines are epic. I'd hesitate before engaging in battle anyone that screamed that at me.
Snuzzle Mar 2nd 2012 10:08AM
Actually, I really like "we are Alliance." It's short, catchy, unifying, and has that great holding-vowel sound the Horde cry has so it's great to shout as you charge in.
"For the Hoooooorde!"
"We! Are! Alliaaaaaaance!"
Talmar Mar 2nd 2012 10:14AM
@BiPolarBoomkin, This is a heaping stack of win covered in awesomesauce. I will so be using some variation of this on my toons now.
I can see a whole slew of Sunwalkers giving pause when hearing the battle cry "For Light and Glory" coming from their enemy. Asking themselves, don't we fight for the Light as well?
I'd love to see the "friendship" between Baine, Jaina and Anduin have some effect on the world... of Warcraft.
Gordal Mar 2nd 2012 11:41AM
@Imnick:
There's a couple of problems with "For Lordaeron!"
The first is that, given that the true citizens of Lordaeron are currently in the Horde, you're basically issuing a warcry FOR YOUR OWN ENEMY.
The second is that the Gilneans apparently loved the old Lordaeron Alliance so much that they abandoned it in the middle of a major war, hid behind their wall cowering, and just sat and watched while the Scourge wiped out the entire country without doing a thing to help.
The Lordaeron Alliance is dead; its members are either wholly in the Horde now (Lordaeron, Quel'Thalas), ineffective on a military scale (Stromgarde, Kul Tiras), neutral (Dalaran. Also now on a completely different continent.) or treasonous quislings or cowards that abandoned the Alliance in its hour of need (Alterac, Gilneas).
Angus Mar 2nd 2012 1:02PM
We are Alliance? Really?!?!
Come on, that's the most pathetic cry I have seen yet. You can't even manage grammar correctly in a battle cry?
Get a real battle cry.
You are an Alliance that was forged by a line of kings like no other. The last of that line stood before Blackrock mountain with his Alliance by when others would have faltered. His best friend killed by a woman they all trusted (herself a tool of demon worshipping goons), a city he knew and lived razed, the enemy in full retreat, he could have called it done.
Instead he attacked and fell. An entire army looked upon the Lion of Azeroth, and they RAGED. The Horde fell.
You want a battlecry? Pick a real one. Pick something, SOMEONE, that means so much to the Alliance that his the thought of letting him down after his final sacrifice was so horrific to the Alliance that they stood as one and massacred their foes.
For the Lion! FOR LOTHAR!!
(Note: I blame this post on Rossi, the badass)
byronius_prime Mar 2nd 2012 1:07PM
@BiPolarBoomkin
That's way too awesome.
Snuzzle Mar 2nd 2012 2:11PM
"We are Alliance" is as much proper grammar as "We are American" or "We are borg."