Southern Barrens warfront

An unnamed Southern Barrens warfront was experimented upon by Blizzard Entertainment for the release of Battle for Azeroth. It was a very early internal prototype, which served as a test bed before any of the new areas were created. It would have involved the Alliance attacking the Great Gate to Mulgore, and many unused NPC IDs were added for it, but it was never completed.

Story-wise, despite the warfront not being released, it seems the Alliance still tried to reestablish Fort Triumph along Bael Modan. The Great Gate was still besieged by the Alliance.

It is unknown which commanders would have appeared.

The following Fort Triumph/Northwatch Expeditionary Unit soldiers were added in patch 8.0.1 but never used, being presumably intended to appear in the warfront:

• Fallen Triumph War Gryphon
• Injured Triumph Vanguard
• Northwatch Artillery
• Northwatch Cannon
• Northwatch Cannoneer
• Northwatch Defender
• Northwatch Dockworker
• Northwatch Gryphon Rider
• Northwatch Guard
• Northwatch Lookout
• Northwatch Messenger
• Northwatch Rifleman
• Northwatch Siege Engineer
• Triumph Lookout
• Overgrowth Woodworker

The Horde would have presumably deployed tauren and Desolation Hold soldiers, such as Desolation Guards, Desolation Raiders, Desolation Wind Riders, Desolation Champions, Northwatch Assassins, and Northwatch Ambushers.

• Air Stike

• For a time even after release, the warfront music could be heard while in the Southern Barrens, a remnant of the experimentation on making the warfront.