As an example, the Orc Grunt and the Human Footman are identical statistically and performance-wise in all ways, they are the exact same unit. Warcraft II, like Dune 2 and its reasoned remake, Dune 2000, is an older generation of game, wherein what differentiates factions from one another is only a few minor differences between the units and their appearances. If you ever play the game online through Battle.Net, one thing will become apparent within a matter of seconds - many of the games have altered settings, and those altered settings are 'No Magic, No Air.' This is silly for ten shitloads of reasons, but before I can get into why, an explanation is needed. Brawl, of course, is a stunning example of this rote stupidity in action, and whilst there's a few special cases of this phenomenon I'll be bringing up soon enough ( Rainbow Six Vegas 2, I am so fucking looking at you) once I get done getting those voice-clips up for noble Hollow (I've been recruited to do the voice of the Vanguard Veteran unit in the newest release of the Dawn of War mod, and have been thus far unable to get much done due to work/mom in hospital/personal problems), but for now, I'm focusing on a bizarre metagame duality that has arisen in Warcraft II from about the time that Battle.Net Edition was released. Veteran readers of my blog will remember my discussion of the Smogon Example, a bit of logic by which problematic things in a game are initially banned for legitimate reasons, but which quickly fall apart when analyzed logically. Battle.Net Edition brought a few minor tweaks to the engine and brought a LOT of rampant silly to the table. The low requirements, ability to install spawn copies, and random bits of silly one could engage in made Warcraft II a favorite, until about 1999.Īnyway.

I scored Battle.Net Edition from a random Garage Sale, and WC2 was one of those games I used to enjoy playing in the silly days of the 1990s, back before we discovered good RTS games like Age of Empires 2, C&C Generals: Shockwave, and though I was by no means a fan, Starcraft. Back in the day, I used to play Warcraft II a lot.

Warcraft 2 tech tree