This was so stressful since I use no hardware other than my laptop, and I tell you, finishing this by one hand sucks

Human campaign are all creepy when I was a kid. Especially this and and the first one. The first mission where you gotta walk through a peaceful village is creepy to me somehow.

@@zikriflanery7030 I bashed everyone with a hammer at that mission

I loved this mission so much as a kid. I destroy all the houses and turn everyone into zombies, then cheat my way to destroy Mal'Ganis (to stop him from interfering.) I then fight my way through the undead. It was like a zombie custom map.

that was so great hahahhahahahhaahahhaa

You're a creative genius!

why XD who wrote that XD did you? what was the creative process behind this XD

Too many words such a Treason?

@Alpas Kalinaw Yup.

Not to mention she can summon a water elemental to help.

Replying to old post but, this mission felt grim indeed. Arthas is all alone, he knows he failed to protect people of Stratholme, and is fighting to in his mind at least save their souls and prevent them from turning into shambling abominations in service of the Scourge. Arthas has seen his kingdom crumble around him, constantly too late to save anyone, Stratholme was just culmination of slow breakdown he experienced during his fight against the Scourge. After that, nothing, save for his own death would prevent him from going after Mal'Ganis, this was the moment that broke him forever and set him on his dark path. The mission is relatively straight and linear, there's only two ncp's that drops any loot, rest is just focused on Stratholme, it's grim and unpleasant intentionally.

@horriblepancake Arthas did 100% the correct thing here.

There's memes for it? I've yet to see them.

I feel the same way. For some reason, RTS games aren't made with the same creative and dramatic flare that Warcraft 3 was.

And now for the reforged, it's too easy...

hes like anakin

what do you mean he turned evil willingly? He was good(for the most part) until he took Frostmourne which made him evil. He didn't even kill Muradin, a shard of the ice where Frostmourne was stored did that, he didn't know it would happen. Sure he did want to delay of his people leaving Northrend, but that was to make sure that Malganis never threatenes Lordaeron ever again. There was no reason for him later on to kill his father and level Lordaeron other than the mind control of Ner Zul through Frostmourne.

Arthas was a complete jackass. He was basically just taunted into doing everything bad he did.

@@507Soccer Except Anakin's turning evil is actually well-explained.

Lol

One of the reasons I love this mission is the somewhat moral ambiguity. Arthas was trying to save his kingdom, making whatever sacrifices need be. But he also began to unreasonably lash out - charging Uther with treason (using future powers he didn't yet have) simply because he wouldn't help slaughter the city, which the end cinematic suggests was not fully infected. His raging passions begin to show through more than ever, the obsession with Mal'Ganis, the anger and fury he talks about his people dying by his hand instead of Mal'Ganis. It starts to cast Arthas in a less sympathetic way, but his actions aren't wholly unjustified, his goal of saving his kingdom is noble. The gray areas are what I love about WC3 (including Illidan, later). This was some of Blizzard's finest writing

Too bad the writing has went to shit with its newer titles.

Until he did everything wrong!

If you can't beat them, join them. -Basically the entire human campaign

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It’s a plane!

@@narutouzimaki7910 It's me :D

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@@jarlbob3191 2022

Press the Attack button in the GUI (or press the Attack hotkey). Now, click over a house. Done. Same thing for infested villagers

A tragedy is: _"a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character."_ If you read any of the classic tragedies, you'll see that it in no way means the character has to be a 'good guy'at first. In fact, they're often no, hence their downfall.

People still keep trying to tell me Arthas was good and should be redeemed. Stripping Uther of his command for not wanting to slaughter civilians all you really need to know. The *Lich King* is a cool character, not so much Arthas imo, he's a jackass.

@@Lizard1582 Yes, because the other option of leaving the civilians alone and abandoned, while infected at the hand of the scourge is a some much better option... Stupid Arthas! Uther is a great fighter, but his judgement in this scenario is incredibly bad. I doubt Semyon Budyonny, hell even Nikolai Vashugin would make a better decision in this case.

@@clone3_7 We can argue about whether or not him executing civilians was the correct thing to do, but my main point was that he was completely irrational and unfair to condemn Uther for not following him. The entire story is Malganis baiting Arthas' emotions into becoming the LK.

@@Lizard1582 Tell me, what would any leader do to an officer, who refused to obey his command in a very vital time, during a crisis? They'd be sacked, tried in a court martial or outright executed. If anything Arthas' decision is very kind, especially to the troops, giving them an option to leave. There are many leaders in history, who wouldn't have done such a thing and would have not allowed anyone to leave (infact I cannot even think of one off the top of my head, who would allow their troops to leave, if they do not want to obey a command). If anything Uther should have disobeyed the command to go away. Telling Arthas of that "other way" of his or at the very least offering to guard his rear if anything went south. But no. I have never understood this scene (from the perspective of the story, gameplay wise I fully do) is so out of character for both Uther and Jaina. I doubt either of them would ever just abandon Arthas in one of his most desperate moments, but they did. Had they talked to Arthas after the culling they could have prevented him from commiting his first serious mistake, heading out to Northrend. They could have stopped him from doing a moral wrong doing (killing the mercenaries), by not recalling the troops of his expedition, but going in with reinforcements to aid him. Which might have stopped him from doing his final error and an arguable moral choice: picking up Frostmourne. Arthas is a very good combatant, and a good duelist, but his most important role is being a great (field) commander, he is anything, but a jacka**.