Zul'dare (WC2 Orc)

Zul'dare is the first mission of the Horde campaign in Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.

The Horde is preparing to launch an assault against the mainland of Lordaeron.

Orgrim Doomhammer - War Chief of the Orcish Hordes and Ruler of the Blackrock clan - has ordered you to establish a small outpost on Lordaeron's southern shores.

''To secure the Zul'dare region as Doomhammer demands you will need to construct a Barracks and several Farms to feed your troops. Your success may help us determine the extent of the pathetic Human defenses and what resistance they can offer against our forces.''

• Build four Farms
• Build a Barracks

Utok Scratcher's commander had been given a pitiful number of troops and workers with whom to carry out their orders; yet they had managed to easily overtake a human outpost and convert it to their cause. Feeding the troops after the long voyage across the Great Sea was necessary to keep the forces from killing each other over what little meat they had brought with them. Therefore they beat an injured soldier into submission, made him a worker, and began fencing in new pig farms.

• Note: this account comes from the Official Strategy Guide, which features a first-person description of each mission from the game.

Those who were not building were sent to labor in a nearby mine, for they needed mineral resources in addition to food. Bored with standing about, the troops began patrolling the area; they managed to find a few scattered humans to quench their thirst for blood. Only one of them returned, but by then they had begun construction of a new barracks. This they needed for the coming reinforcements, so all available workers were whipped into helping.

Once the barracks were completed, the needed only a bit more farmland to raise pigs, and soon the promise reinforcements arrived. After a short time, all the human spies in the area had provided skulls to adorn their standard. With the area secure, they waited impatiently for new orders.

• Orcish Horde
• Grunts

• Alliance of Lordaeron
• Footmen
• Archers

• This mission is essentially a simplified version of the first mission of the Orc campaign from Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Only 4 farms need to be built instead of 6, the map is smaller, and there are only 4 instead of 8 enemy units.