God I miss this fic.

Wait, where are chapters 6-8?

I agree with just about everything in this fic. It’s practically WarCraft in a nutshell.

The broadside naval guns would work fine on most targets such as infantry formations and structures. Simply by gravity and momentum kicking ass together. Still, a broadside of grapeshot would probably have helped a lot against flying targets.

And it would honestly not surprise me if there were a Chaos God of mewling pacifism.

And I totally agree about Kalecgos. His only reason for existing was to convince Jaina not to wipe out Orgrimmar and everyone in it. Because she would be killing innocents...not sure what innocents considering everyone living in Orgrimmar are members of warrior species trained from birth to kill. And even if most people there were innocent, it wouldn’t change the fact sparring them would doom other innocents to the Horde’s bloodlust. So, either kill the innocents of the faction causing wars, or let the innocents of the peaceful faction be killed. Either way, innocents die. The only deciding factor is which one’s survival would lead to the least future bloodshed. Hint: it ain’t the Horde. Besides, like I said, the Horde doesn’t really have “innocents”.

Better thing to think about is: if Kul’Tiras on its own could fight the orcs, why were the orcs ever a real threat to the Alliance back then? Seems suspicious.

Not sure why you call fighting the Defias the “mother of all civil wars”. It wasn’t even a war. Just a bandit gang getting its face curbstomped. The mason guild rebuilt Stormwind and when it came time to pay them, they demanded more than the agreed amount. The lords refused and the masons violently rioted. They threw stones at the royal family, one of which struck the queen’s head and she died. Then the masons fled Stormwind and became the Defias Brotherhood.

Kek

Really enjoying the re-write. I loved the previous version as well. You have a knack at WarCraft comedy, keep it up XxX

Sylvanas was made faction leader because the other big names are dead.

Arthas would make a great faction leader because he gets shit done.

Arthas really is the best villain. Illidan doesn’t count because he was never actually a villain. Just constantly betrayed by the world he was struggling to save.

The space goats exist for much appreciated fan service. There is nothing to complain about.

Something I hope comes up is that Azeroth has no reason to attack the Scourge. Think about it, after Arthas took the throne, what did the Scourge actually do besides sitting around rotting? Nothing but defend themselves when attacked and even then they didn’t put effort into it. So, logically, Arthas pulled a Bolvar and held back the Scourge.

The attack on Azeroth in Wrath of the Lich King can easily be blamed on Kel’thuzad. We only know the Lich King led the defense of the Plaguelands. Any claims he lead the invasion are just claims by word of mouth. Plus, after taking over the Scourge, his subjects don’t seem particularly mindless and from what we see in the Death Knight class prologue the Scourge has an economy.

Also, the Horde has lost every war. They have to, since they’d murderize the losers and annihilate all traces of their foes’ civilizations. Which would both ruin WoW and the Burning Legion would win thanks to the Horde having already in canon reduced the Alliance population so much the Alliance has no choice but to not exterminate the Horde every chance they get so there would be enough forces to resist the Legion.

Lets not forget that until Battle for Azeroth, the Alliance forces fighting the Horde were not some combined army of all species. It was the Alliance military, which is simply all human military forces and any members of the other species who enlisted in the Alliance military rather than their own nations’ military and some seconded forces such as tanks and mortar teams and archers.

The Horde military is all the combatants (read: everyone older than a preteen, basically) of every species. The Alliance (humans) win anyway. Even when two dragon flights were added to the Horde’s forces. WoW is basically Humanity Fuck Yeah in disguise.

Even though the wars have reduced humanity to like a hundredth or several hundredths of its pre-Dark Portal numbers. Anyway, I guess the burning of Teldrassil got everyone off their asses because the Battle of Lordaeron included NE sentinels, Draenei Peacekeepers, etc. Logically this means the Horde is uber fucked, which means they’ll probably win anyway because Blizzard has a raging hatred for logic and reason.

Fuck I remember reading this shit back in Cataclysm days, time flies.

Huh, an update...kinda...mainly a simplification...Though tbh, if you aren't happy with it's quality, maybe a total rewrite is in order?

This all reads much better. I agree about chapter 9. It always seemed an odd addition.

The idea behind Sylvanas being Warchief, is that the Warchief is the supreme leader of the Horde, meaning a Warchief can freely choose their successor, and Vol'Jin made a bad deal with the Loa of Death bwomsamdi, Vol'Jin needed the power the Loa granted him back, and Bwomsamdi got him that in return for Vol'Jin obeying Bwomsamdi, now Bwomsamdi is the Loa of Death, which mean he is strengthened by people dying, but not by just anyone dying, for him to claim their souls and draw power from them, they either need to be his followers, or be killed by his followers, and Bwomsamdi want more souls, he has some claim on the horde, which mean that he can claim, at least some of the souls of the people the horde kills.

So Bwomsamdi wants war, because he can claim a lot of souls in war, so when Vol'Jin was dying and had to appoint his successor, Bwomsamdi ordered Vol'Jin to appoint Sylvanas, because Bwomsamdi knew that Sylvanas was a warmongering bitch, and that was exactly what Bwomsamdi wanted.

And the Horde follows her, because that's what the horde do follow the Warchief, it's not set up so a bad Warchief can be disposed, and the people of the Horde are indoctrinated to not rebel, it took Garrosh using the power of the old gods to rebel, so even with as much as most of the Horde dislike Sylvanas, they follow her because she's the Warchief, and following the Warchief is the honorable thing in their minds.

Death Knights are really good against undead, not so much with death magic, but Death Knights can command undeads, so just like a Warlock is good against demons as they can enslave them, Death Knights are good against undeads, as they can enslave them.

Their killing ability isn't too good against undeads, but they were made to be commanders of the Scourge, from a lore perspective that mean a sufficiently powerful Death Knight, can turn part of an Undead force on itself, as they vie for control with it's leader.

Arthas logic isn't really that good, Uther was the most powerful Paladin of his time, but that was more than a decade ago, and the idea of Paladins are only a few decades old, being developed after the orcs invaded, new more powerful Paladins emerging make sense, Azeroth is in a time of progress, and Paladins are a new class, so better equipment has been developed since then, and Paladin skills have been refined more, that plus the Ashbringer being a Legendary weapon, in all likelihood forged from a Naaru's core, whereas Uther just have a decent hammer, make it quite likely that Tirion was far stronger at the chapel, than Uther was when Arthas killed him, if Uther was still alive, learned the new techniques, got the new gear, and got a legendary weapon like the Ashbringer, then he would probably surpass Tirion again, but gear matters, techniques matter, so Uther having more potential don't mean he hasn't been surpassed by a lot of the new generation, because he don't know the new skills, or have the new gear.

Then there's the fact the Draenei arrived, they are veteran Light-users, so them sharing their knowledge, probably advanced both the power of Priests and Paladins.