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WarCraft III- Mission 3, NE.
I've been slogging through WC3 in my free time, and the single player missions have been pretty good so far. I'm curious though- how have people who've already completed things get through "The Awakening of Stormrage," the mission mentioned in the title? This is on Hard mode, of course (and it's wonderful! I like intense matches where the computer never gives up). And really, this is by far the hardest mission I've done so far- sure, there have been other semi-timed missions so far (generally in the "conquer the next base before your gold runs out"), but you could still futz around them (you don't lose when the gold runs out, it's just that you should be in the process of destroying the enemy's base at the time. And Mission 5 Human, one of my favorite, you can kill Mal' Ganis!).
So, what worked for you? If I try and destroy the Orc base, I'm generally about halfway done when I lose. Even if I was all the way done, I'd still have the guardians to worry about, so this is incredibly slow. I'm really not sure how to speed it up. Yes, I bring my Ancient Protector up immediately and sit my army outside the Fountain of Life while waiting for Ballistas to be built at the beginning, and have my army there ready to recieve Orcish attacks. I've tried both ignoring the extra gold mine for more speed and getting it along with 3 Ancient of Wars. I've tried building my Moon Wells outside the Fountain of Life for even faster healing. It's still not fast enough.
That leaves running like a madman across the base. Problem is, you really get routed doing that, and you also have to all Huntresses then, pretty much. I've managed to take down two guardians that way, but the Lightning Guardian just smacks me around and chews out the remaining 4-5 badly wounded Huntresses and my Hero. And the Ice Guardian is really nasty. Thanks, Mr. Tip about the dryads. The Abolish magic isn't doing damage to the Treants as best as I can tell, despite the fact that they're summoned, and you can't dispel a Frost Nova that weakens your line of Hunts!
So how'd y'all do it? Reminder, this is Hard mode. Furion's been eaten by ghouls at least 8 times by now.
P.S. Too bad about the NE, they feel slightly tacked on. I'd much rather have the new Orc-Human alliance be the ones to smack down the demons. And I very much like the excuses they came up with in the Undead & Orc missions to fight all the other races. The excuse in the NE missions seems to be that the NE are xenophobic idiots who can't even try diplomacy and won't notice that their enemies who can't be trusted are fighting hte same darn thing, and would probably happily let you through the base if you just talked with them instead of attacking whenever you saw them!
So, what worked for you? If I try and destroy the Orc base, I'm generally about halfway done when I lose. Even if I was all the way done, I'd still have the guardians to worry about, so this is incredibly slow. I'm really not sure how to speed it up. Yes, I bring my Ancient Protector up immediately and sit my army outside the Fountain of Life while waiting for Ballistas to be built at the beginning, and have my army there ready to recieve Orcish attacks. I've tried both ignoring the extra gold mine for more speed and getting it along with 3 Ancient of Wars. I've tried building my Moon Wells outside the Fountain of Life for even faster healing. It's still not fast enough.
That leaves running like a madman across the base. Problem is, you really get routed doing that, and you also have to all Huntresses then, pretty much. I've managed to take down two guardians that way, but the Lightning Guardian just smacks me around and chews out the remaining 4-5 badly wounded Huntresses and my Hero. And the Ice Guardian is really nasty. Thanks, Mr. Tip about the dryads. The Abolish magic isn't doing damage to the Treants as best as I can tell, despite the fact that they're summoned, and you can't dispel a Frost Nova that weakens your line of Hunts!
So how'd y'all do it? Reminder, this is Hard mode. Furion's been eaten by ghouls at least 8 times by now.
P.S. Too bad about the NE, they feel slightly tacked on. I'd much rather have the new Orc-Human alliance be the ones to smack down the demons. And I very much like the excuses they came up with in the Undead & Orc missions to fight all the other races. The excuse in the NE missions seems to be that the NE are xenophobic idiots who can't even try diplomacy and won't notice that their enemies who can't be trusted are fighting hte same darn thing, and would probably happily let you through the base if you just talked with them instead of attacking whenever you saw them!
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