# What is troop search finding? “arlo”

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/what-is-troop-search-finding-arlo/56347>\
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/what-is-troop-search-finding-arlo/56347 "2019-07-11T08:28:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/what-is-troop-search-finding-arlo/56347/1 "2019-07-11T08:28:22Z")

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In an attempt to quickly locate Red Charlotte, I used the troop search feature to look for “arlo”. I got far more than just Red Charlotte, including quite a few troops without any obvious appearance of “arlo” in their text:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/8/9/89153e948959bb9bc105a26b35d1b52ce9615ed8.jpeg)

Where is “arlo” coming up for these troops? What obvious answer did I miss before racing to these forums to make this thread?

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**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/what-is-troop-search-finding-arlo/56347/2 "2019-07-11T08:33:04Z")

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All ‘Warlocks’

😊🖖

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**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/what-is-troop-search-finding-arlo/56347/3 "2019-07-11T08:38:16Z")

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Thanks. I realized this after I had made the thread, but didn’t feel like taking it down.

It has now become much harder to search for the blue/brown rare troop from Karakoth, since dozens of other troops will come up if you search for its name. This seems kind of silly, since we already have a role filter in the search menu.

Maybe if Salty or Kafka sees this they can pass along a feature request: _don’t_ include troop role in text searches.

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**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/what-is-troop-search-finding-arlo/56347/4 "2019-07-11T08:54:12Z")

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Haven’t nor plan to use the troop roles feature: maybe it’s useful for new players who are not familiar with/accustomed to searching for specific keywords?

Homogeneous wording (e.g. ‘summon’ a storm vs ‘conjure’ a storm 🤦‍♂️) would go a longer way in helping us find what we are looking for, IMO…

…then again, sooner or later we may find ourselves in an event where we can only use ‘Warlocks’… 🤔😅🖖

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**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/what-is-troop-search-finding-arlo/56347/5 "2019-07-11T09:58:00Z")

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The text search function is dumb, as in unintelligent. It doesn’t have any bells and whistles. Long-standing issues include similar stuff like trying to find “Orc” troops and getting troops with the “ReinfORCed” trait.