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Kruellagh the vile sounds legit like cruella de vil
I'm almost 100% certain that's where they got the name from lol
There's also the claim that Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka's name is in part a spin on Margaret Thatcher although that's really up to debate
Naw the Ghazghkull thing was just the name of a warboss made by Mike McVey turned into one of the first special characters:
McVey explicitly said it wasn't meant to be Thatcher, just coincidence. However, there was a banner painted with Thatcher's face on it for an WHFB Orc standard bearer, featured as part of a tutorial:
....which is where the confusion started.
Oh yea I've definitely seen that before, yea the Margaret Thatcher connection is one of those things that I know isn't true but it's funnier if it is
Lmmfao ork jesus is Margaret Thatcher. Workshop guy from liverpool must've come up with this
They had some fun with the British naming back in the day, they once introduced a sunlight-starved isolated backwater planet that's culturally and technologically stagnant that they named Birmingham
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VCBnOtRvPyg&pp=ygUaaGFwcGllc3QgbWFuIGluIGJpcm1pbmdoYW0%3D
'e looks like a 'umie but talks like an Ork boy
Us orkz r rlly appy. This here umie fighting for is life.
True, he's got the accent down but not the attitude, a real ork would be thrilled to be fighting every day
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