Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness Hints

Mission 12: The Tomb of Sargeras

• Mission Objectives:
  
  - Destroy the Stormreaver Clan
  - Destroy the Twilight's Hammer Clan
  
  Oh jeez, this level is TOUGH.  You've got limited lumber and oil in the beginning, and limited gold to worry about later.  Also, the blue guys won't upgrade their ships, but the purple guys will.  Well, onto the hints:
  
  IMMEDIATELY take your Ogres to the island directly east of you.  Destroy the Ogres there, and set up a Lumber Mill.  Now, take everyone else over to the next island (with a gold mine), and kill everyone there.  Build a Great Hall, then make some more Peons.  Have most Lumber production be at the small island, and the gold mining on your newly captured one.  Immediately build a Shipyard, then a Oil Tanker to set up an Oil Platform, then a Foundry.  Have a total of 3 Oil Tankers haul oil (don't build a Refinery yet).  Make sure your lumber production is going very fast.  Now, make Juggernauts to fend of attack.  You will be attacked many, MANY times, so make sure you have enough!  Position them all by the Oil Platform, and station a Zeppelin up above.
  
  Now, continue this, making Juggernauts and defending.  You'll also probably want a second Shipyard, to churn out ships even faster.  When you get a pause, and have the resources, upgrade ship Armor and Cannons (make sure to have at least 5 Juggernauts guarding when you do this!).  Now, in another pause, build a Barracks.  When you get enough gold and lumber, upgrade to a Stronghold.  Again when you get a pause, build a Goblin Alchemist (build new Juggernauts in between).  Now you can make Turtles, which while not powerful, will help.
  
  Now, at this point, the enemy sending ships should slow down a bit (but not stop).  Your goal now is to take the island to the upper-right of yours (with a Death Knight, a couple Ogres and Farms).  First, take a Destroyer and 2 Juggernauts over (with a Zeppelin).  Take care of any lurking vessels, and then destroy the Tower.  Take a Transport (you can use those Sappers you got at the beginning, plus some Ogres).  Kill everyone on the island.  Unload a Transport of Peons onto the island.  Start by building a Lumber Mill, and getting lumber (when your gold mine runs out, take the mining up here, where you should build a Great Hall).  Don't bother destroying the enemy Farms until the end of the mission.
  
  As I've said before, you should be building more ships as usual.  At this point, you should also have your ships fully upgraded.  Also, that Oil Platform is probably dried up, so set a new one up south of the island you just captured.  Get a Refinery down there, at the south of the island, as well.  The attacking ships, instead of attacking the Oil Platform, will now attack from different places.  The blue guys will attack the west part of your island (they shouldn't be a threat though, if you don't expand that way) and the purple guys will come down from the east and attack the Oil Platform.  Anyway, build up an armada of Juggernauts and Turtles, then attack the purple Oil Platform north of your newest island.  Prepare to face incoming bad guys, as well.
  
  Once that's temporarily taken care of, destroy the Shipyard to the northwest.  Now, they'll probably build another Oil Platform, this time up in the northeast corner.  Move your guys there, and attack it (bring in a couple more ships if needed).  Then, when that's gone, head west, and destroy the other Shipyard.  Watch for enemy ships and Turtles, and also watch for the Tornado spells of Death Knights.   They will sometimes cast Haste on a Catapult, so get of those quickly.  There are a couple Towers, but not many.  Once you get rid of their Shipyard, that's alot less enemy ships you have to worry about.  Move all of your guys away.
  
  With one clan's Shipyard gone, now to the others.  Again, assemble a large armada as before, and head north to destroy it.  Destroy all ships as well.   Now it's time to get more ships, and scour the shores for things to destroy.   You should be able to destroy one of the blue Barracks, some farms, and any guys standing around.  Make sure you have at least 2 Destroyers with you, in case any Daemons attack you (the Juggernauts can't attack air units).  As usual, move your ships out of  the way of Death Knight Tornado spells.  Once you've destroyed everything you can, now comes the rather easy part.
  
  You've probably got lot's of gold and lumber, so upgrade everything, and build everything that you never got around to building before.  Make 3 Goblin Sappers, a bunch of Ogres (or Ogre-Mages, if you decide to upgrade them), about 4 Trolls, a Peon, and 3 Death Knights.  The only spell you should really research of the Ogre-Magi is Bloodlust.  For the Death Knight, just research Tornado, and if you want to, Raise Dead.
  
  Now, take these guys in a Transport to the south part of the island.  Build a Barracks down here, and destroy any guys that you'll encounter (it shouldn't be too hard) and make more guys as neccessary.  The enemy Death Knight can annoy you by casting Death Coil on them, so you'd best have your Death Knights coil 'em first.  Go on to destroy everything else.  In the progress, cast Tornado on the other side of the mountains, to damage or kill the guys behind there.  Have some Trolls attack the Daemons, or have your Death Knights steal their life with Death Coil.  Once the surrounding towns are destroyed, take the 3 Sappers in and blow a hole in the mountain.  Move your guys in, destroy anyone else still alive, and destroy the Temple of the Damned.
  
  The last step is extremely easy.  Finish off the farms on the other two islands.  And if you haven't already, raze the farms that I told you to wait until the end to destroy (you know, the ones on that island you colonized?)  You're finished!  Pat yourself on the back (again).
  

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