“React, I was bloody there moments before this started.”
Especially considering how High King Wrynn decided NOT to press their attack once King Rastakhan was dead, leaving a vengeful Talanji on the throne (who was always the biggest proponent of joining the Horde) rather than in the Stockades.
Kinda renders all the sacrifices in Nazmir moot.
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The strategy is sound - just the reasoning is wrong.
All they need to do is change the Alliance basis for attacking into destabilising the Zandalari - you take out their leadership in one fell swoop, which puts Dazar’alor into chaos.
You then take out the Horde while the Zandalari are trying to reorganise.
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I’m not too sure on the details anymore but as far as I can recall Lei Shen and the Zandalari gathered the mogu clans to crush and enslave those on Pandaria, including the Horde and Alliance aligned pandaren factions (and Hozen and Jinyu).
If they had killed Father and Daughter, or just the Father six/seven months ago before the speaker of the Horde got rid of all the chaotic elements in the Empire, that would have been a good plan.
But all they’ve done is kill of the guy who wasn’t super stoked about joining the Horde, leaving his super stoked and now angry daughter to lead the empire into the Horde.
I get that it needs to happen due to allied races, but sheesh couldn’t Blizzard write the Alliance as sensible for once?
I agree. The strategy is sound - the Alliance just can’t follow through on it.
It would be too large a victory. Cities can burn but neither side can have a lasting advantage. Otherwise people would cry about faction bias.
Blizzard should just set the foot down and shift the balance. Let one side be underdogs, at least for a while.
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Brennadam was a civilian target; the second largest centre of commerce on Kul Tiras.
Dazar’alor is a civilian target as well (I walked into the raid and the first thing I see is Dark Iron forces mowing down civilians). Warcraft doesn’t have the same delineations of civilian targets that we do.
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Isn’t that what they’re doing with the whole “We’re now weeks from victory” thing?
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Absolutely based.
Why aren’t people REEEEing that Dark Irons kept their character as immoral mass murderers and slavers, handling the genocidal aspect of the Blood War? I thought the general consensus on AD was that they are like Bronzebeards but a bit more temperamental.
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The Zandalari deserved this, Horde allegiance is just icing on the cake.
KILL. ALL. TROLLS.
Should Laurenn learn of the attack on a Troll city full of civillians (which she’s unlikely to, considering how little she has to do with anything military), she’s going to be upset. Upset with the Alliance, doubting them more than she currently does, wishing for the whole “civillian-killing nonsense” as she’'ll most likely put it to end. Also a bit worried for the people she knew who moved to Kul Tiras, afraid that the follow-up will be Horde’s siege on Boralus. Laurenn doesn’t like the whole war one bit, not at all.
The Fishbone Marauders will be MOST disappointed that the harlot Jaina Proudmoore raided that magnificent golden city before them. They didn’t even make a dramatic entrance! Pathetic. Alliance will pay for that.
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Kotobuki was still grounded in Feralas when the news came through, his fighter having sustained more than a few knocks during the fighting. Turns out undead pirates disliked being strafed as much as the Horde did, who knew?
Dazar’Alor. He had heard the stories. A city of gold, one of the oldest cities in existence, rivalling even the Night Elves in its apparently timeless and indomitable nature. The veritable heart of the once grand and glorious Zandalari empire had at last been brought low, by the Alliance no less.
Kotobuki had met a few Zandalari in his time, mostly in combat. One could not tell everything about a troll upon first meeting them but it was hard not to sense the arrogance that permeated from a Zandalari. Their empire was arguable the longest lasting in Azeroth’s history, their culture, among trolls at least, the proudest and filled with tales of conquest, mysticism and a distinct lack of footwear, ugh. And now the Alliance had beaten them, soundly.
From what Kotobuki had heard, the Zandalari were on the verge of joining the Horde. The Horde had manoeuvred quickly after springing the troll Princess from the Stockade, working to aid the ancient empire across their continent. Apparently the Forsaken flagship was a permanent fixture in the harbour of Dazar’Alor from which the Banshee Queen’s champion and Horde heroes chose strike targets and deployed the Honorbound across Azeroth.
It was obvious why Sylvanas had chosen the Zandalari as allies. The Zandalari fleet was said to be impressive in both size and power having had the benefit of going unchallenged for centuries. Control of that fleet, even in part, would finally give Sylvanas and her Horde the means to launch a meaningful invasion of the Eastern Kingdoms, allowing her to strike even at Stormwind with great force. Had she managed to procure the fleet, the war might well have been over in a few weeks.
But the Alliance was having none of it. Not only had the Alliance made an effort to secure the loyalty of Kul’tiras, the only navy that could rival or even over power the Zandalari fleet in size and class, their attack on Dazar’Alor had come with two distinct prizes. First, the death of the King, who had ruled some two hundred years. It showed the Zandalari that they were not invincible, that even their Loa and their ancient city and their ageless King could bleed. And secondly, their fleet had been all but destroyed before the battle even began.
As Kotobuki understood it, Alliance operative had first planted remotely controlled explosives on the majority of the troll fleet’s vessels and had waited for the time to strike. Launching a daring feint into Nazmir, they had managed to draw out most of Horde and Zandalari forces leaving only a token defence in the city, the King likely assuming his fleet would keep him safe, neither would see the end of the battle. By the time the Horde realised they had been duped the damage had been done. They engaged in a force march back to the capital, likely tiring their forces, after the battle in Nazmir further, arriving only in time to nip at the tail of the retreating Alliance army.
Of course, rumours were abound that the High Tinker was seriously injured or killed which brought tears to the eyes of Kotobuki. And there was talk of brave 7th Legion heroes laying down their lives in Nazmir to draw the Horde out. Truly they were heroes all.
The day had been a major Alliance victory in this ‘Blood war’. The Zandalari, though humbled, would surely seek revenge and likely would be hastened into the Banshee Queen’s arms, of course, they now knew how little an alliance with the Horde brought. The Zandalari fleet was crippled, the great threat of invasion was fast becoming a memory and with the aid of the Kul’tiran fleet the Alliance would once again dominate the sea.
Kotobuki smiled, proud of his High Tinker’s bravery, of his heroes’ sacrifices and of his King’s bold strategy.
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woah in ten characters
But not in a way that matters. If they hadn’t spelled it out you wouldn’t know how the war is actually going. It’s still very symmetrical.
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Does Yas get to say “I told you so”? Because Yas told you (assuming ‘you’ are any of the people who spent the last few weeks trying to convince her that Zandalar represented an insurmountable roadblock between Kul Tiras / Northrend and the High Kingdom) so. Unfortunately she’s somewhat too busy attempting to come up with an Incredibly Cunning Strategy for what she sees as the inevitable Alliance attack on Quel’thalas to do much gloating, but…
Also I guess something about a bunch of dead trolls which it would be politic to pretend to be sad about, given how badly we need the Horde in our corner for said inevitable Alliance attack.
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Only if she keeps her ‘Key’ handy. Northrend was never a risk anyway, it was a sideshow, you don’t -need- a roadblock between Kul’Tiras and Quel’thalas, that’s the point. If the Alliance have Kul’tiras, Howling Fjord doesn’t matter, at all, it would -be- an obstacle to a swift invasion, so makes no sense for the Alliance to use it. It would only delay -them- and cause them unnecessary risk. Why sail to an arctic hellhole, when you could just sail direct to your landing point quicker?
As for needing the Horde in the corner of Quel’thalas, the horribly cynical part of Brigante would go “Yep, and that’s now guaranteed, Cheers Alliance!”
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Should have been there to tear the copper out the walls ![:frowning_face:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/frowning_face.png?v=6" ":frowning_face:")
that’s how blizzard works
tell, don’t show
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