Warcraft III Easter Eggs Bonus: Models 

When I was small, I was persuaded that Tyrande is talking tigress and the rider is just protecting her. (much like kodo beast).

at 2:35 the rifleman "spell animation" was used in the human campaign in RoC when you have to defend the town for 30 mins. At the starting cutscene, there are some footmen and riflemen "preparing for battle" and the riflemen do just that animation when they fire into the air

The war wagon transport was freaking broken, that's why we removed that ability. Broken AF... -_- Not unlike early versions of the troll batriders.

5:25 Uther's book I think is the logo for a metal band named HammerFall. The likeness is uncanny and also fitting Sam's metal theme

I was scared to death at the end, I thought I caught a virus as even my computers cooling got silent.

12:20 THAT HORSE IS AMAZING...

So happy this series is still being worked on. I love every bit of it. Your jokes are good, your research is insightful and I love your lil "cutscenes" while you explain stuff. Hopefully you can get some answers like last time from DesignerDave. Love your work :)

I love seeing people who are as into WC3 as me, I like ya dude

The 'stupid clown hair' is supposed to be a wolverine reference

Seems like when you won a match the idea was that all your units would do a victory cheer kinda animation.

Thank you for revealing where the “Dwarf In/Out” asset came from. I found that in the world editor and couldn’t find what it belonged to for years

I do miss the ballista. It makes more sense, looks better and has an excellent nostalgia factor to it.

I will echo the praise of all others, and to this I will add one thing: it is a testament to how engaging & involving your productions are that the end of this video completely caught me off guard. I was honestly taken aback, like "wait, WHAT, am I playing a game?" before I realized what was going on. And now I'm seriously salivating for part 2.

About Mathog: you remember that grunt with peons in cages? Grunt is nsmed as "Mathog". It is a side quest, where you must kill some centaures and open these cages with keys, that are dropping from khan. Then, he is moving into Orgrimmar and saying something like: "Thanks, we will go, bye".

Noticed that sneaky Crypt of the Necrodancer tune...

I hope you know that I enjoy the intro with all the units running. I love to try to figure out all the units that were used. I also like the just overview of all the models and races used in the game. Thanks Abelhawk!

Fun video to watch. Awesome work Abelhawk!

Oh, fantastic! I made several types of armored transporters from the warwagons also tanks with higher defense(including imunity to spells) and magical tanks, when I was a kid, I had no idea, it was supposed to be!

Just stumbled on this channel and have been binging all of your videos, this is amazing work!

I love your videos, Abelhawk, keep 'em coming! I just want to point out a few things: - Dragonspawn models have 'CombatCritical' and 'CombatWound' animations that look like "Stand Hit" (1:40). - 'Stand Victory' animation (2:12) is played when you win the game. - I don't really get what you're trying to say about Phoenix's death animation (6:44). Of course you can use the phoenix model both with and without the egg morphing thing, since the same death animation is used in both cases (the egg doesn't have its own death animation) and Blizzard even used them as creeps (Thunder Phoenixes) in The Founding of Durotar campaign (aka Rexxar Campaign). - Bandits (7:01) have two 'Death' animations. One is called 'Death' and the other 'Death Fire'. - What do you mean Monster Lure ward has no effect? (11:38) It does exactly what it says in the tooltip - It lures creeps to it's position. - By the way, masked Shadow Hunter (11:12), Orc War Forge and Orc Lumber Mill (13:11) can be downloaded from Wc3c along with some other cool beta models that didn't make it into the final version of the game.

I thought you stopped recording, welcome back, one of my favorite WC3 youtubers

That ending freaked me the fuck out for a second...

When you mentioned the victory animation I was quickly reminded of some victory animations in Command and conquer 3 where some infantry units will cheer and wave their arms in the air if they survive a battle, however there is a victory animation for units and tanks in command and conquer generals that is if you win, the tanks fire out confetti now the night elves siege machine the glave thrower I think was swapped to a glave thrower for more of a fantasy look as the hunters/rangers (I think) threw glave weapons but they pretty much acted as a grounded mutalisk however it be interesting if the glave throwers could toggle between a glave or a balasta bolt, one for raw damage while the other is great against faster units and a slightly bigger splash damage than the other, but copy right could be plausable as there are people to this day try and claim copy right for something that existed longer than the person was born

some of these things are extremely good to know for map making purposes, good job on the video

i hope for part 2 soon, and hope for icons, spells and sounds xD keep it up

This is very interesting because some of these interactions were used in DotA. Correct me if I'm wrong on some of these: The Rifleman flare animation was used for Shrapnel. The Lure Ward was used as Mana Ward for Pugna, which has the fairy dragon mana zap ability. Pheonix death animation was used, well as his death animation. Chaos Warlord was basically used as the hero Chaos Knight. Call Storm animation was used for Impale on Lion. There are probably 1000 more examples of unused animations being used in custom maps to make for interesting and unique abilities and units. Later Icefrog added his own unique spell effects and animations if I recall correctly (Sonic Wave comes to mind), which means he wasn't limited to the wc3 pool.

1:55 Paladins doing the dab even before the dab was even invented.

Just started to get into this and then (just before the end) I started to think RU-vid was playing up. Enjoying the videos (watched the voice line ones) and will start looking for any others

I had to stop at 12:40 to point out that even though it looks and sounds like the tech used in this video is below standard you still know some really nice tricks with editing and put them on show. Some very interesting techniques on display and yet you didn't overuse them which impresses me even more.

A very charismatic person, I could watch your stuff all day.

I love your effort you put in every miniclip you create :3

I love your videos man... No matter how many times I watch them they are still entertaining. Also they help me fall asleep :)

YES! It's so good to see you back Abelhawk. You should try Starcraft!

You forgot that originally tanks didn't have a gun, but a huge Morning star that they used to crush buildings. Later transport and tanks were combined in to a one unit.

Love that you're showing Warcraft 3 The love it deserves

Great video as always I was hoping for more content like this

Glad that this series is still on. I enjoyed finding the secrets and your narration is just amazing. :)

damn i love this series soo much ! i love the nostalgia i feel after every your vid about wc3

Your videos are all amazing! I really love your easter egg videos!

Oh, good to see you back. :DD Excellent video

I think the frost pedestal was used in the cutscene where muridin dies when it exploded

To be fair, in Reign of Chaos, Dragonhawk riders, Priests and Sorceresses were not Blood Elves, they were High Elves, maybe that is why the change in appearance.

Well shoot, I only have one coin left...

2 years have passed and i still watch this video. i love warcraft

This is so much information. I only heard about the arthas upside down book.

6:26 made me almost spit out my drink...idk why 9 battleships pulling a flying Dutchman makes me laugh so much, but it does.

Love the idea of using the Battleship birth animation for the surprise attack submarines 😂😂

Nice that Blizz put in the effort to make models, icons and animations they would never use in the campaign themselves but might have understood that it would be very useful for community map makers. :D

Some of the best work I've ever seen

Thanks!, awesome, I didnt knew all about that!!

Man that end ;)

most amazing video ever seen. thank you so much!

Man, you really got me. I thought my session is over. I almost got a heart attack.

Great video! Cool ending

My favourite model was always Sylvanas' and Shandris' 😭

I can't believe it's been 3 years :O

This is so great!

An interesting thing is that Samwise Didier drew two variants of the Troll Shadow Hunter hero - one without the mask and one with. You can compare them here: i.imgur.com/OKZE4tx.png I have no idea which of these is older, though :P If I remember correctly, the Steam Tank was also meant to have a wrecking ball in addition to the mounted riflemen in the early versions of the game. Behold: i.imgur.com/PascFQo.jpg

Uther's book has the logo of a metal band called Hammerfall, which is an easter egg village in wow, and Samwise Didier makes the covers and arts for them :)

I'm not sure if this is the case but at 13:25; - other than being a reference to wolverine - I think it's a reference to a unit from another RTS game called 'Battle Realms', that unit is called Berserker as well with 2 claw blades in both hands, red hair (maybe the reason why it's fel orc not a normal one), and from a faction that is somewhat similar to the Orc's relatively primitive lifestyle.

5:28 Actually, I think that is an H that is in reference to the Power Metal band Hammerfall, especially with the way it is stylized. This is more likely than you think given that the artist Samwise Didier that makes the art for their album covers is also one of those that work for Blizzard. The area Hammerfall for instance is a reference to them as well.

Mathog is basically a grunt in the founding of durotar traped in a a cage with his clan in act 2

nice stuff

I can swear i remember some point in the campaigns spirit wolves lvl 3 do have bloodlust ability. Or i just confuse it with Beastmaster's quillboars

Excellent video

I don't know why but I laughed so hard at the "stupid clown hair"

That berserker looks badass

changing from a more generic medieval machine to a more specific one isn't done to avoid copyright, it's to ensure copyright. Balistas cannot be filed away as a copyright you own, but Blizzard Activision can, and will, sue someone else who puts a glaive throwing siege weapon in their game now.

making the siege engine load & unload units is pretty basic, but how did u change its attack animation to just have the riflemen projectile effect thingies? i wanna implement that in my own map but im not quite sure how to do it. did u do it in the object editor only or via triggers?

That was not a th in Uther's book but a HF,a reference to the heavy/power metal band hammerfall that samwise have done several cover arts for.

The rifleman animation is used in a cinematic in the human campaign in reign if chaos

1:50 Arthas dabbing with that hammer boi

Rifleman's spell animation is used in the old DotA maps.

12:34 warlock:hey shaman you are in spirit walker's place Shaman:oh sorry Spirit walker:sorry im late Warlock: :/

Genius ending dude

YES THANK YOU!!

You can use Human frigate texture on Night Elf frigate model and you got high elf or blood elf frigate 🙂

8:41 the Animation remembers me of muradin‘s Death Scene

2:47 youre welcome

Maybe the stand-hit animation is for when units get stunned?

"Boom stick." It could be there was not a morter team planed. He was to have like an alt fire or spell that did what the morter team does.

''Wirt's Leg'' 8:41 A reference to Diablo 2 where you find this item in Tristram!

Uthers book seems to have writing inside pretty similar to HF logo of metal band Hammerfall.

The 'casting' with the orc grunt and spirit wolf, is that maybe when they get Bloodlust buff on 'em by the orc shamans? Just guessing, could be completely wrong

abelhawk in 0:53 i see the knight used to have a way longer lance than it has now and i looked at a another one images and the archmage used to look like gandalf and i some how stopped the video in 13:53/13:53

I used to edit Azeroth Wars LR back in 2014. Pit Lords also have walk and running animation like to Koto Beast. xdd

5:27 Those so called T and J that Uther have in his book, are either eerily similar to, or IS the HF crest that the swedish metal band Hammerfall have used time and time again throughout their career. A band for whom Samwise Didier has done alot of coverart work for.

You didn't mention how the Flying Machine's model is a little different from the gyrocopter's. The blades go from being spinning over the pilot's head to spinning around the turbines.

In a custom campaign "Dwarf Campaign" they mention that Steam Tank-Siege Engine thing. There is a dialogue which says: "Given the fact that the machines are effective only against buildings, calling them 'Steam Tanks' may actually be a little misleading. The term 'Siege Engine' would describe their actual purpose much better." So it's like an easter egg of easter egg.

Two years late, but the Frostmourne-less pedistal seems to be for Cutscenes

You forgot to mention that the different Blademaster variants have different Bladestorms.

I CAME HERE FOR CHOCOLATE EGGS AND WHAT I GOT WAS a rather informative video in which i enjoyed every second of it. thank ye for make ye content #bless

Warlock are shaman that turned from the spirits. Thats why they still had some of their spells.

The slave master was used in the Warchasers official custom map made by blizzard.

Uther has the logo for the band Hammerfall in his book by the way

5:29 Nope... that is Hammerfall logo :D

The Illidan wagon is for the TFT human mission where Illidan is caged and you have to prevent Maiev to bring him to her base (I think)

According to lore, Original shamanism came from Draenor which is where Orcs and Draenei come from. Draenor orc shamans were called spirit walkers in the first place, and, after Gul'dan's corruption, Spirit walkers became warlocks. That might explain everything.

It's been so long since this game was released and people are still playing it and learning new stuff about it. How awesome is that?! Blizzard should really pay more attention to their classic games! Still waiting for them to get integrated into Battle.net 2.0 and added to the Battle.net app.

a lot of these are explained trough campaign warlock for example in in orc campaign what you get instead of shamans after drinking manoroth blood in the cenarius mission