Warcraft: Lordaeron Wars

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Introduction

Warcraft: Lordaeron Wars is a strategy game based on the (World of) Warcraft setting by Blizzard Entertainment. Set in the Eastern Kingdoms of Azeroth, you will control one of the numerous races and factions vrying for supremacy of the continent.

Recommended Settings:

• Player Factions: Human, Hard or Fast AI depending on your preference for the AI play style.
• Minor Factions: Fast AI (These are intended to be AI only. This AI plays less optimally so minor faction units will be more likely to attack neighbouring territories instead of turtling on there own territory).

Factions

There are 6 major playable factions in Warcraft: Lordaeron Wars, each with there own unique units and mechanics (to come).

Troll Tribes

Unique Mechanic: Troll Tribes of Azeroth

The player recieves 35 PU at the start of the game to purchase the troll tribes they start the game with. Each Tribe controls different territories and units at the start of the game. A major Tribe costs 20 PU, a medium Tribe costs 10 PU and a minor Tribe costs 5 PU.

If controlled by the AI, they will random the tribes they start with.

Minor Factions

There are numerous minor factions representing the small indepedent races, such as Gnolls, Spiders and Murlocs. They are all indepedent from one another, and hostile to every other faction in the game. There turn is after all player factions have went and they are capable of producing units and capturing territory like player factions.

Unique Mechanic: Minor races of Azeroth

• Production of units is limited to the production of a production unit and 2 ground combat units, except for the Elemental Conclave which can produce 4 different ground combat units.
• All combat units have a PU cost of 3x the cost of player factions.
• All units have a stat line of 2|2 except for heavy infantry which are 4|4 and tower which are 2x3|2x3.
• All minor faction tower units are capturable, and some production units are capturable which are placed during the game start. These capturable production units represent things like castles or villages that minor factions have taken over that can be repurposed for a player faction to use rather then things like huts or crypts which have no military use. The minor factions cannot produce more of these capturable production units. These are both denoted by a white circle instead of black.
• If a minor faction destroys a player factions production unit, it is captured instead and the resulting production unit is capturable by all factions.

Gameplay

Each faction has access to the same 6 base land units, 1 air units, 3 sea units and 2 buildings.

Each unit is different from one another, having differing PU costs, attack and defense values, support, targeted attacks and terrain types.

Production

A territory may only contain 1 production unit and it is destroyed when captured by another player faction. If captured by a minor faction, it is captured instead.

Production units can be built on territories the same turn when they are captured and can produce up to its territories PU-1 ground and/or sea units per turn.

A territory may contain any number of tower units but only 1 can be placed on the same territory per turn, and they may be placed on territories without a production unit. The placement of a tower unit does not count towards the placement limit of the territory.

Tower units can produce 1 ground or sea unit per turn.

Landmarks

The game starts with various minor landmarks placed around the map. These cannot be destroyed or removed, only captured.

Minor landmarks are:

• Farm: These produce 1 PU every turn and can produce 1 unit per turn.
• Gold mine: These produce 3 PU every turn but have a chance to collapse during the end of a round if they are contolled by a player faction.
• Pier: These enable the production of transport and frigate units.
• Port: These enable the production of all sea units.

Support

A support is a passive increases to another units attack or defense during combat./p>

• Leadership: Found on ground units. Increases a different type of units attack and defense during combat. Leadership from different types of units stack and a unit cannot recieve leadership from another unit identical to it. For example a stack of two heavy infantry units will not give leadership to one another as they are the same type of unit of heavy infantry, but a stack of 1 heavy infantry and 1 ranger unit will give leadership to one another. In another example, a stack of 1 heavy infantry, 1 ranger and 1 siege unit will recieve all 4 leadership supports onto its 3 units as they are from different types of units.
• Curse: Found on caster units. Decreases an enemy units attack and defense during combat. A unit can only recieve curse support once.
• Defenses: Found on tower units. Increases back unit types defense during combat. A unit can only recieve defense support once.

Targeted Attack

A targeted attack is an extra attack made at the start of the combat phase to another unit type.

• Retaliation: Found on infantry and heavy infantry units. Targets mounted unit types.
• Charge: Found on cavarly units. Targets front unit types.
• Anti-air: Found on ranged units. Targets flyer unit types.
• Flank: Found on air units. Targets back unit types.
• Magic: Found on caster units. Targets magician unit types.
• Sieging: Found on siege units. Targets tower units.

Table Key:

PU: PU cost of unit.

A: Attack value of unit.

D: Defense value of unit.

H: Number of hit die of unit.

T: Transport cost (for ground units) and transport capability (for ships).

M: Movement value.

Unit Type: Name of unit type (used for targeted attacks and support).

Terrain Type: Name of terrain type (used for terrain bonuses).

Support: Name of support.

SP: Value of support.

TA: Name of targeted attack

TAA: Attack value of targeted attack.

TAD: Defense value of targeted attack.

Unit	PU	A	D	H	T	M	Unit Type	Terrain Type	Support	SP	TA	TAA	TAD
Light Infantry	5	2	3	1	1	1	Front	Infantry	-	-	Retaliation	0	1
Heavy Infantry	9	5	4	1	1	1	Front	Infantry	Leadership	1	Retaliation	0	3
Ranged	7	3	2	1	1	1	Back	Range	Leadership	1	Anti-air	1	2
Cavarly	8	4	2	1	1	2	Cavarly, Front	Mounted	-	-	Charge	3	1
Caster	7	2	2	1	1	1	Back, Magician	Range	Curse	2x1	Magic	1	1
Air	9	3	3	1	-	3	Flyer	Flying	-	-	Flank	3	1
Siege	7	2	1	1	2	1	Back, Siege	Range	Leadership	2x1	Sieging	4	0
Production	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tower	15	2x4	2x4	2	-	0	-	-	Defenses	2x2	-	-	-
Transport	8	1	2	1	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Frigate	12	3	4	1	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Battleship	16	6	6	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Territory Connections

All territories are connected to territories they are adjacent to.

Ground units may only be transported on coast territories.

The exceptions to this are territories that have a or map marker.

Cave markers indicate that the territory is linked to another nearby territory with a cave marker via a cave that goes either underground or through a mountain. These are listed below to avoid confusion:

• Havenshire : The Noxious Glade.
• Tirion's Cottage : Terrordale.
• Revantusk Village : Shaol'watha.
• Drywhisker Mine : Hiri'watha.
• Circle of Inner Binding : Faldir's Cove.
• Dalaran Remnant Camp : Ambermill.

Instance markers indicate that the territory is linked to either Stratholme or to Sunwell Plateau. These are listed below to avoid confusion:

• Stratholme Gate : King's Square.
• Eastwall Gate : Elder's Square.
• SZ40 : Stratholme Harbour.
• Sunwell Plateau : Parhelion Plaza and Quel'Danas Dead Scar. These two territories are not connected to one another.

Terrain

Each unit recieves different bonuses from different terrain. These bonuses are determined by the units Terrain Type.

If a territory has two terrains, then then resulting terrain bonus is the sum of each terrain effect.

There are also some terrain types which are used for production, such as Shipyard and don't effect unit values.

All dungeon terrain can produce 2 unit per turn, except for production and tower units which cannot be placed on them.

	Open	Hillside	Woodland	Mountains	Minor Settlement	Major Settlement	Dungeon
Infantry	0 | 0	-1 | 0	0 | 1	0 | 0	1 | 1	-1 | 1	1 | 0
Range	0 | 0	1 | 1	-2 | -1	0 | 0	-1 | 1	0 | 2	1 | -1
Mounted	2 | 1	-2 | 0	-2 | -1	0 | 0	1 | 0	-2 | -1	1 | 0
Flying	0 | -2	1 | 0	1 | 2	0 | 1	0 | 0	1 | 0	1 | 1

A summary of each terrains effect by territory terrain:

• Open: Mounted are stronger, Flying are weaker.
• Hillside: Range and Flying are stronger, Infantry and Mounted are weaker.
• Woodlands: Infantry and Flying are stronger, Range and Mounted are weaker.
• Mountains: Flying are stronger.
• Minor Settlement: Infantry and Mounted are stronger, Range are mixed.
• Major Settlement: Range and Flying are stronger, Mounted are weaker, Infantry are mixed.

A summary of each terrain effect by unit terrain type:

• Infantry: Stronger in Woodlands, Minor Settlement. Weaker in Hillside. Mixed in Major Settlement.
• Range: Stronger in Hillside, Major Settlemen. Weaker in Woodland, Minor Settlement.
• Mounted: Stronger in Open, Minor Settlement. Weaker in Hillside, Woodlands, Major Settlement.
• Flying: Stronger in Hillside, Woodland, Mountain, Major Settlement. Weaker in Open.

Non-Combat Terrain

• Sea: All sea units can move over this terrain.
• River: Battleship units cannot move over this terrain
• Coast: Sea units can pick up and drop of land units at this terrain.
• Port: Transports and Frigates can be produced at this terrain.
• Shipyard: All sea units can be produced at this terrain.
• Impassable: Units cannot move over this terrain.
• Mountains: Only flying units can move over this terrain and they are stronger.       

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