Gul'dan has gone into hiding in remote, unexplored lands. It is rumored that he is working arcane magics in isolation, drawing power from a new portal to the orc homeworld, from which he intends to bring forth new armies to ravish humanity. He must be stopped.
Uther Lightbringer has decided that it is his responsibility to find Gul'dan and stop him. With only a few brave men: a wise mage, elven archer, and packbearers, Uther begins his quest into the strange new lands, in order to find and destroy Gul'dan. Along the way, Uther hopes to rally new friends to join him in his quest, and help in the fight.
Quest.pud is intended for single players. It was created using the Warcraft II map editor, and subsequently tested, on a Power mac 7200/90. It does not use the expansion set. This pud requires the player to carefully pick his/her fights, passing some up in order to gain a needed foothold elsewhere first, until Gul'dan is found and he and the rest of the horde destroyed. I hope players find it different from most other PUDs they've played, which quite frankly tend to often be another 'just go fight all these other guys' on a slightly different map. I hope that this PUD adds a bit of adventure-style gaming to Warcraft, and that the theme is expanded upon by others, perhaps as whole campaigns.
Hints:
Hints/spoilers for Quest.pud (try to read as few as possible, and only if you keep failing and can't figure out how to make progress):
1. Quest.pud is a quest. Therefore things tend to go better if you do certain things (travel/explore certain areas, build towns in certain locations, advance your army into certain areas) in a certain order. Save often, so that if you regret a certain course of action, or want to try something different, you can. This PUD is beatable, and not too tough if you're good at the game and do things wisely.
2. The first thing you should do in the game is load all your men onto the transport and sail east to a small rocky island. Rescue the Gryphon aviary in the center of the island.
3. Next, continue east to a wooded land. Follow the path through the trees. You should be able to have most of your guys survive the few skirmishes with the orcs on the trail. It's not necessary to waste time destroying the orc farm.
4. After coming out of the trees to the shoreline, move south to resue the gryphon rider and transport. Use the gryphon rider to scout the seas ahead so that you don't lose the transport. If you lose the transport, you're screwed.
5. Load your guys onto the transport and sail north. Rescue a destroyer on the way. Unload at a shore at the very north edge, rescue the blue town hall, 2 farms, and 2 peasants. Start mining gold and build a base.
6. Position the rescued destroyer just south of town (5-6 spaces) or have it patrol, to keep orc transports from landing.
7. Take a couple peasants straight west of town to the wooded land. Have them chop trees (build a lumber mill as soon as enough space is cleared; until then you have to shuttle them on the transport). Clear trees to rescue the mage tower and farm.
8. Except for a town hall and barracks, many things can be built on the wooded land near the rescued mage tower, as you clear trees. They will be safer here.
9. Start building up eleven rangers, and consider destroyers instead of battleships. Dragons will begin arriving soon. Use the oil patch west of town in the relatively safe harbor.
10. As the gold in the blue town starts running out, you want to prepare to take the gold mine just south and east of the blue town, through the rocks. Do it.
11. Once the second gold mine (south and east of blue town) is secured and you are harvesting gold from it (use dwarves to blow an easier path through some rocks, to make a more direct route and speed harvesting), you need to prepare to take on the main orc hordes.
12. The orc armies are red (control the seas), green (control the land on the east center), and violet (operating from the south center island, and sending dragons. You can largely ignore the violet armies, except for killing the occasional dragon that comes around.
13. To wipe out the green and red orcs, you need to take the fight to them, either by land or sea.
14. A land attack is better in the long run. Use dwarven demolition squads to blow a hole in the rocks south and east of the second mine.
15. After blowing a hole in the rocks, prepare for an onslaught of peons looking for gold, and orc armies who will march up when you attack the peons. A few wizards ice-storming the horde is quite fun. Then again, your entire blue town may be wiped out. Don't sweat it if you have resources to the west, on the wooded land. Bring over wizards to reclaim the blue town.
16. Once the second mine and hole through the rocks to the south is secured and you are functional, build an army to go south. The rest of the game is basically a fight southward into wastelands toward Gul'dan.
17. Yes, Gul'dan IS a bit stronger, drawing power from the portal. Good luck.
* Play Information *
Game: Warcraft II
# of REAL players: 1
# of COMPUTER opponents: 4
Single player
Race: human
Resources: NONE (at start)
Units: Uther Lightbringer, a mage, an archer, 2 peasants (at start)
Known bugs: none
* Copyright / Permissions *
Authors MAY use this level as a base to build their own levels.
You MAY distribute this PUD, provided you include this file, with
no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic
format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file
intact.
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