The Frozen Throne: Scourge, Chapter 1: King Arthas

This is a really long mission. Start by pulling the speed down to Slow, since you’re defending or attacking at three fronts simultaneously. Now, start making units. Arthas needs only abominations, Sylvanas needs Banshees and Kel’Thuzad needs Necromancers. In the beginning, though, build some ghouls in Arthas’s and the lich’s crypts to get up an army quickly.

Unless you are very skilled, you will only be able to attack at one front at a time. Arthas will do a good job defending his side by himself as long as you put a ghoul near the Circle of Power, but Kel’Thuzad will need some help from you. His front is the most difficult one to defend. Cast Frost Nova as much as you can, and set Raise Skeleton to auto for the Necromancers. Cripple some units, too, since you will have more than enough collective mana. The skeleton warriors should be kept as a shield around the lich and the necromancers.

The key to fighting with Sylvanas is possessing everything stronger than a Footman, especially the Knights. On the other fronts you have the problem of Paladins healing the knights, but guess what happens if they have no knights to heal — that’s right, they can’t heal them! Using this strategy, you should be able to destroy all the bases on Sylvanas’s side quickly. No more villagers will try to escape through Sylvanas’s mountain pass any more, so therefore I just did a suicidal attack with the units I had left on the center and made sure that Sylvanas slipped through to Kel’Thuzad’s side. Her Life Drain and fire power was a considerable aid.

With only two fronts to defend, you can attack simultaneously. The key is not to attack the old-fashioned way. It’s not hit-and-run either, it’s more of a hit-and-die. As soon as you have slaughtered some villagers and raised them with your Necromancers, send the skeletons on a suicidal mission to destroy a farm. Even if you only damage it once, you will have won, because your skeletons are free and the farms are never repaired. You can do the same with Arthas. Just send him and some Abominations to destroy farms. Animate Dead to get them up again and do even more damage.

When only the centre Paladins are left, it is easy to destroy their base through a combined assault, since you now have 90 food to play around with.

Notes:

• Put your Shades at important crossings in order to warn yourself of escaping villagers.
• Killing your own Shades will not help, since they do not count against the food limit in this mission.
• You can get nice items by seeking out and killing some heroes — Arthas has a Mountain Giant, Kel’Thuzad has an Archmage and Sylvanas has some archer with Starfall.
• Make sure to always be stocked up with healing scrolls, since you have almost unlimited cash.
• When all the villages on one side have been destroyed, there won’t be any more attacks. You can keep pushing units to the center, or get them over to another side to help.
• Your units prioritize combat units over peasants, and might let them slip through fighting. To avoid this, let one or two ghouls stand closer to the mountain pass.
• Human units become Invulnerable as soon as they touch the circles.
• Don’t give up. This is a hard mission on par with the timed missions in Reign of Chaos, but it is possible.

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