From the original Blizzard Entertainment game:
In the Age of Chaos, two factions battled for dominance. The Kingdom of Azeroth was a prosperous one. The Humans who dwelled there turned the land into a paradise. The Knights of Stormwind, and the Clerics of Northshire Abbey, roamed far and wide serving the king's people with honor and justice. The well-trained armies of the King maintained a lasting peace for many generations. Then came the Orcish Hordes.
No one knew where these creatures came from, and none were prepared for the terror that they spawned. Their warriors wielded axe and spear with deadly proficiency, while others rode Darkwolves as black as the moonless night. Unimagined were the destructive powers of their evil magiks, derived from the fires of the underworld.
With an ingenious arsenal of weaponry and powerful magic, these two forces collide in a contest of cunning, intellect, and brute strength, with the victor claiming dominance over the whole of Azeroth. Welcome to the World of Warcraft.Do not be taken in by that last sentence; this has nothing to do with World of Warcraft!
Mod information:
This is a project I have long sought to create - a recreation of the classic RTS game on the RTW engine. The original game is out of print, and is available at
Abandonia if anyone is interested. I highly suggest you check it out if you've never played it.
I already have a fully functional campaign map, based on this one from the manual:
This map is a good example of the limited amount of information there is to be found in order to port the idea to RTW, so I've had to take some creative liberties here and there. But there are still only the two factions; Orcs and Humans (plus rebels of course).
The faction roster is *very* limited, indeed many of the original game's features are quite basic unsurprisingly, and I've aimed to reflect this with my RTW version by focusing more on the little details.
Just remember the goal in TWOH is not to build great empires, establish trade networks, or buy map information - it is to destroy the enemy! 8)
I will be showing more of what is to come soon. Some of it you've seen already (remember those meteors
).
