"What the hell is that?" Arthas asks when seeing the Meat Wagon, like he never fought against them ever before, except he did so all the time. I'm surprised that in a world like this they even bury their dead. If it were my call, any dangerous enemy would be utterly incinerated and then their ashes spread bit by bit all over the place. Or dumped in a river or something. Oh good, poor Garrick! Uther does go down surprisingly quickly. I too was very upset about his fate... but like, nowadays? Nah. Uther consistently drops the ball in this story, and was most well known for killing peasants in Warcraft 2, so...
Quite a few continuity errors in Warcraft 3 it seems - apparently from what I've read, a lot of the missions were developed independently by different people and some of the dialogue that was originally placeholder dialogue by the mission developer never got updated by the writing team and went straight to voice acting as is. Agreed, in a world where the undead exist you'd think cremation would be the norm! 💀 I figured I'd take evil Arthas' measures of killing the townsfolk when possible - he made it out though! Yeah I always really liked Uther but it's funny to see how little he actually does between both games. I think I mostly liked the idea of him being the first of the Paladins and all.
@@mickcraftgaming It turns out that Arthas actually did learn something from Uther after all! How to kill commoners! But Uther never would have let Garrick escape! And some of that placeholder dialogue remaining unchanged really does explain it.
@@Canuovea definitely! Sounds like they kind of got bogged down and rushed out the campaign not yet fully polished. I know the original goal release date of Warcraft 3 was late 2000, so they missed that by a mile. Thankfully it was the olden times, modern Blizzard probably would have released an unfinished game in 2000 and WC3 would be a long forgotten failed game.
Fun fact one of the good changes Reforged did was alter a few things in this mission for what i think is the better 1: Arthas isn't shocked by the Corps cart as they where used during the March of the Scourge 2: each Paladin gets it's own model which is great for custom campaigns as you can give Humans more Heros 3: the small changes to the map make it flow a bit more smoothly though i don't think many people would notice
It's really fun how the Blizzard of old played around with its own toolkit with designing races for Warcraft and Starcraft. Scourge is a great fun experiment in "what if we combine Protoss and Zerg elements?". They even feel that way thematically, to a point. This mission is very good at driving home the sheer "this ain't a light and simple story" element of WC3. Perhaps, for some, the bit with Arthas killing his father and basically disbanding the kingdom didn't drive the point home enough, what with it being in a separate cinematic and the first mission being much different and almost making Arthas look weak - well, partially retracing your own steps at Andorhal, undoing what you did earlier with Kel'thuzad, proving his words from back then right and casually striking down Uther himself did it for most everyone. Good time to note, too, that this campaign marks a sort of unique point for Warcraft, with all campaigns being canon - even the "evil side" ones - rather than having a sort of "competing campaigns" deal where only one gets to have a sequel pick up from where it ends. The Scourge campaign being a core part of the WC3 story rather than some sort of bad end state was always cool.
My life for Auir- I mean, Ner'Zhul! Yes it gets dark quick! I also like that aspect of it, in Warcraft 2 you're romping around as the Orcish Horde, killing the King and everything just to have it all retconned out because the other campaign was canon - meanwhile in Warcraft 3, we have linear and complete storytelling. I appreciate the comment!
I like unit unlocking progression in Undead Campaign. Mission 1: best scout (shade), best worker/gatherer units (no, really, Acolyte and Ghouls are top tier units), taste of summoning shenanigans that about to come (skeletons). Mission 2: WAR CRIMES ON WHEELS. I'm surprised UD don't get Crypt Fiends here.
I played this mission a lot, but defeating the 2 Paladins before Uther will be very challenging, since they can heal damaged living units or damage your Undead units with Holy Light
