Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness Hints

Mission 11: The Betrayal and Destruction of Alterac

• Mission Objectives:
  
  - Free the Mages and Peasants
  - Destroy Alterac
  
  Perhaps one of the most popular levels in Warcraft 1 was Humans level 7.  In this level, you had to rescue your captured peasants and use them to rebuild your town.  This is basically the theme for Humans level 11 in Warcraft 2.  Start off by moving your Knights, Archers, Footmen and a Ballista all north, following the path.  Use your Ballista to scout ahead.  You will meet up with a group of 3 enemy Footmen, which can be easily killed.  Make sure you have a good defensive line set up, with Knights in the front and Archers and Ballistas behind them.  Use a Demolition Squad to destroy the two Cannon Towers, then use Knights to lure the enemies out.  Slowly advance and destroy all Alterac soldiers (orange).
  
  Enclosed in walls there are 6 purple Peasants, and 2 Mages.  These are the people that you must rescue.  Break through the wall by attacking it, and then walk next to the purple guys to "rescue" them.  Take all of these newly acquired men and walk them back to your base.  You will want a lot of gold to get your city started.  Also, you will be be very short on farms.
  
  Speed is very important, because you are way behind.  Set up defensive lines again to cover the entrances to your base.  Most attacks come from the northeast.  That is where you want most of your firepower.  The enemy does not quickly upgrade their soldiers, so you might be able to get ahead of them. Warcraft 2 is very much a strategy game.  It works a lot better to come up with a plan then to march your troops right into the enemy defensive lines.  You CAN do that, but in this guide I will show you how to use a cunning strategy to decimate Alterac.  Make five, yes five, Demolition Squads and send them just east of the Alterac base.  You should see a point, a little above an Alterac Lumber Mill, where the line of trees gets fairly thin.  One at a time, send your Demolition Squads into the trees and have them demolish themselves.  With your 5 Squads you will make a gap in the trees.
  
  Next send a large group of Paladins and a few Ballistas through this gap.  Attack the Tower, and any other nearby buildings.  Position your Paladins around the enemy mine, and just leave them there.  They will kill any Peasants that attempt to mine for gold.  This will pretty much halt any gold takings for Alterac.  (Note: Alterac starts off with 2 mines.  By the time I got to this point, the first mine was long-since exhausted.  Make sure you do this to the right mine!)  With the enemy running low on gold, it should be pretty easy from here.  There are small groups of soldiers all around the map, and a dragon in the lower-right corner.  Use Archers to kill it.  When you want to attack, gather up at least 9 fully upgraded Paladins, and attack the enemy FROM THE NORTH.  Lure the enemy into ambushes.  Make sure you have Ballistas to destroy the Towers.  Once the town is gone, all that should remain is the defensive line.  Simply gather up a huge army and annihilate those scummy traitors and Orcs!  That wasn't s
  o hard, was it?
  

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