Exodus of the Horde Expert

[BishlessKamikaze1234]

I played the first 2 chapters so far and it seems pretty low effort and not fun at all. I can't say I am wanting to continue the campaign after the first 2 missions.

The things changed so far are super minimal and I don't think they are that substantial for me to want to play through the prologue campaign again because I have played the thing too many times.

• No new spells
• No new units/buildings
• No new items, neither are there that many substantial new item drop locations!
• All changed so far are random enemy placements here and there that in my opinion makes the campaign more tedious than fun because you do NOT get that many healing items at all! I counted like 2 scrolls of healings I got in Chapter 2 with the frequent waves of enemies that keep coming at you from the little base, its just overwhelming.

In Chapter 1, you just have your 3 grunts and Thrall with you against so many new enemies placed and literally 0 healing items. It doesn't seem fair, but I was able to complete it after literally losing 2/3 grunts at the end and then standing there waiting for Thrall to regen his health and mana to get past the bandits and fight the trolls at the end. When that's a thing I have to do - sit around waiting for regen, its not fun anymore.

In Chapter 2, like I said, just 2 healing items in the whole map, with the sheer amount of new enemies placed, plus your gold mine doesn't nearly have enough gold for you to handle the sheer frequency of attacks the humans keep sending, and the army is quite large too. Archers do crazy damage against the grunts (I wonder why there are elves with the humans?) and you don't have any other unit other than grunts to work with. I had to cheat at the end to finish this because my army died trying to attack them in the base, and my gold mine collapsed leading me to fall into a soft-lock, and mind you - I WAS going as fast as I can, and rebuilt my army as much as I could with how fast they were dying... yet I ran out of gold pretty fast. IDK man, just not a fun challenge.

I am aware you said lower difficulties are available, but imo that would make it even more boring, because nothing else is changed in this campaign rather than the quantity of enemies and creeps. No unique spells either, nor do you get extra units in the missions (so far atleast), so it is basically vanilla but more tedious.

So yeah, probably will not gonna play the rest of the chapters because personally I had 0 fun in the first two.

I rate this campaign a 1/5 star. If I ever have a change of heart, I might give this campaign another shot later on with the rest of the chapters, especially the bonus one but now I have literally ZERO desire to play through the rest. Also the reason I'm being so harsh here is that if this was not just a lazy edit of a Blizzard campaign, atleast I would've given some points for creativity, but now that there are so many better edits of the prologue campaign out there - SevenBlood's revamp, the Re-Reforged campaign, Xetanth's Alternate Campaign etc. I really can't see why I would want to play this one if I want to go play the Prologue Campaign with some changes. Just not enough unique changes to warrant that.

NOT RECOMMENDED.

 

[TheHuntress]

I played the first 2 chapters so far and it seems pretty low effort and not fun at all. I can't say I am wanting to continue the campaign after the first 2 missions.

The things changed so far are super minimal and I don't think they are that substantial for me to want to play through the prologue campaign again because I have played the thing too many times.

• No new spells
• No new units/buildings
• No new items, neither are there that many substantial new item drop locations!
• All changed so far are random enemy placements here and there that in my opinion makes the campaign more tedious than fun because you do NOT get that many healing items at all! I counted like 2 scrolls of healings I got in Chapter 2 with the frequent waves of enemies that keep coming at you from the little base, its just overwhelming.

In Chapter 1, you just have your 3 grunts and Thrall with you against so many new enemies placed and literally 0 healing items. It doesn't seem fair, but I was able to complete it after literally losing 2/3 grunts at the end and then standing there waiting for Thrall to regen his health and mana to get past the bandits and fight the trolls at the end. When that's a thing I have to do - sit around waiting for regen, its not fun anymore.

In Chapter 2, like I said, just 2 healing items in the whole map, with the sheer amount of new enemies placed, plus your gold mine doesn't nearly have enough gold for you to handle the sheer frequency of attacks the humans keep sending, and the army is quite large too. Archers do crazy damage against the grunts (I wonder why there are elves with the humans?) and you don't have any other unit other than grunts to work with. I had to cheat at the end to finish this because my army died trying to attack them in the base, and my gold mine collapsed leading me to fall into a soft-lock, and mind you - I WAS going as fast as I can, and rebuilt my army as much as I could with how fast they were dying... yet I ran out of gold pretty fast. IDK man, just not a fun challenge.

I am aware you said lower difficulties are available, but imo that would make it even more boring, because nothing else is changed in this campaign rather than the quantity of enemies and creeps. No unique spells either, nor do you get extra units in the missions (so far atleast), so it is basically vanilla but more tedious.

So yeah, probably will not gonna play the rest of the chapters because personally I had 0 fun in the first two.

I rate this campaign a 1/5 star. If I ever have a change of heart, I might give this campaign another shot later on with the rest of the chapters, especially the bonus one but now I have literally ZERO desire to play through the rest. Also the reason I'm being so harsh here is that if this was not just a lazy edit of a Blizzard campaign, atleast I would've given some points for creativity, but now that there are so many better edits of the prologue campaign out there - SevenBlood's revamp, the Re-Reforged campaign, Xetanth's Alternate Campaign etc. I really can't see why I would want to play this one if I want to go play the Prologue Campaign with some changes. Just not enough unique changes to warrant that.

NOT RECOMMENDED.

Yeeeah, don't expect something AMAZING from this campaign as I decided to keep it very vanilla (my personal preference), this is more focus on difficulty (because well I find Hard difficulty not hard enough after been playing these campaigns many times before), so yeah sorry if you didn't enjoy it as much as we could say you literally went through hell by playing it. If you ever have a change a heart, uhhh I wouldn't recommend it since is EXPERT difficulty, either way here some tips for the first two levels.

CHASING VISIONS

• Micromanagement is key, engage against enemies taking the least damage possible.
• Explore the map, you might find hidden goodies that you might have missed.
• Choose wisely with what you want to fight, maybe you want to skip some optional enemy encounters.

DEPARTURE

• The distance between your base and the enemy base is pretty long, you might want to construct your barracks closer.
• High Elven Archers hit hard against your Grunts, but your Grunts also hit hard against those Archers, don't waste your time on the Footman.
• Careful with the upkeep, you might lose more gold income due to it.
• Maybe more Watch Towers could help???

Anyways thanks for the review!

Oh and to answer why are there Elves with the Humans, well because, Warcraft 2 reference ok, they were the range units for the humans in that game, also High Elves are part of the Human race, much like the Dwarves, also don't confused them with the Night Elves, they also have Archers with the same model but with different texture.

 

[BishlessKamikaze1234]

CHASING VISIONS

• Micromanagement is key, engage against enemies taking the least damage possible.
• Explore the map, you might find hidden goodies that you might have missed.
• Choose wisely with what you want to fight, maybe you want to skip some optional enemy encounters.

1. I have done all the micromanagement I could, I have played hard micro missions before, I could get 3 grunts through until the Rock Golem fight with like 2 of them at like 10% health and the other at 35% ish, and then in the Rock Golem fight 1 of my grunts died. I didn't sit around for regen too much apart from the end. I can only micromanage so much without any healing items you know? Dealing with all the high level creeps placed in the maps with 3 grunts is insane to me.

2. I have no idea what you could mean, because the only items I found are the pirate booty which gave gold for some reason which does nothing in the first map? I don't remember if the Murloc Nightcrawler dropped anything. Others are the secret Tome, the Ring of Protection +1, Manual of Health, etc. which are found in the vanilla campaign already. I even used the vision cheat at the end to see if I missed anything...

3. If ignoring fights like that is intended, thats pretty lame imo, I don't want to skip fights to win, thats not fun to me. I like to experience everything in the map.

DEPARTURE

• The distance between your base and the enemy base is pretty long, you might want to construct your barracks closer.
• High Elven Archers hit hard against your Grunts, but your Grunts also hit hard against those Archers, don't waste your time on the Footman.
• Careful with the upkeep, you might lose more gold income due to it.
• Maybe more Watch Towers could help???

All your tips you mentioned here I have tried, I built two Barracks like halfway through the map, I have even done as many Watch Towers as possible... IDK the gold was just not enough. I am pretty sure I had No Upkeep most of the way through as well.

Like I get the difficulty being the attraction, but I think for me there is a fine line between difficulty and tedium and this crosses the threshold for me. I have played maps like Legend of Arkain (I even played some of the maps on hard) and To The Bitter End and I was able to beat them, and I thought they were fair but this feels a bit too overwhelming.
Moreover, zero new changes to the units and spells really don't create a hook for me to want to suffer through to play the rest, because I know what to expect now, its just vanilla but with new enemy placements. So yeah, while its fair as a preference, it becomes pretty boring to play because like I said, so many other better Exodus of the Horde remakes out there with actually substantial changes to shake up the gameplay.

 

[TheHuntress]

1. I have done all the micromanagement I could, I have played hard micro missions before, I could get 3 grunts through until the Rock Golem fight with like 2 of them at like 10% health and the other at 35% ish, and then in the Rock Golem fight 1 of my grunts died. I didn't sit around for regen too much apart from the end. I can only micromanage so much without any healing items you know? Dealing with all the high level creeps placed in the maps with 3 grunts is insane to me.

2. I have no idea what you could mean, because the only items I found are the pirate booty which gave gold for some reason which does nothing in the first map? I don't remember if the Murloc Nightcrawler dropped anything. Others are the secret Tome, the Ring of Protection +1, Manual of Health, etc. which are found in the vanilla campaign already. I even used the vision cheat at the end to see if I missed anything...

3. If ignoring fights like that is intended, thats pretty lame imo, I don't want to skip fights to win, thats not fun to me. I like to experience everything in the map.


All your tips you mentioned here I have tried, I built two Barracks like halfway through the map, I have even done as many Watch Towers as possible... IDK the gold was just not enough. I am pretty sure I had No Upkeep most of the way through as well.

Like I get the difficulty being the attraction, but I think for me there is a fine line between difficulty and tedium and this crosses the threshold for me. I have played maps like Legend of Arkain (I even played some of the maps on hard) and To The Bitter End and I was able to beat them, and I thought they were fair but this feels a bit too overwhelming.
Moreover, zero new changes to the units and spells really don't create a hook for me to want to suffer through to play the rest, because I know what to expect now, its just vanilla but with new enemy placements. So yeah, while its fair as a preference, it becomes pretty boring to play because like I said, so many other better Exodus of the Horde remakes out there with actually substantial changes to shake up the gameplay.

Well, this can't be helped really then, this campaign is meant to be more difficult while keeping the player with the same forces and tools at their disposal, with a just a few additional tomes and upgrades for the hero so they can keep up at least, and sometimes additional resources (gold/lumber). But yeah I tried to give some tips, didn't worked with you, so this campaign ain't for ya, maybe I am too crazy with the difficulty of this campaign haha. I still stand by on keeping this very vanilla as possible, yeah is cool to shake up the gameplay by chugging a lot of new content and lots and lots of custom stuff, but I like my ice cream vanilla flavor. Also I did made clear that this campaign was very vanilla in the description. So don't be playing this campaign, you gonna get all stressed and frustrated, but if you gonna try again, all I can say is...

 

[Wind Rose]

There's no difficulty here. I played the first mission, and it's pure micro-level gameplay—basically medieval torture that completely undermines any kind of fun. There's no real challenge whatsoever. You can't make a campaign thinking it's "harder" using a multiplayer approach. Micro-level, controlled pulls, macro-level control... It's just a matter of putting in hours of multiplayer, nothing more. But that doesn't work in a campaign because the AI lacks intelligence, and you already know how the units will behave, how to block, how far to move to stop them from attacking... It's not difficult, it's incredibly boring and tedious.

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to belittle your work, but that's how I see it.

P.S. And I didn't lose any units or have to use any potions, that's why I say there's no difficulty. You just have to follow the order that all of us who have played enough already know.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Warning: this small review relates only to content available for the latest (as of 16.06.2026) version; maybe the author will add more stuff afterwards or not.
To previous reviews and comments, I can only put this meme (which is right to some extent, reason below):

Spoiler: Video Walkthroughs

Before we start.
I can AGREE with @WindRose and @BishlessKamikaze1234 in terms that this Expert Edition lacks... Lacks content, perhaps? But playing through it casually - I found it quite an enjoyable version of "Exodus of the Horde changed so hard, so you cannot tell the quite difference". Most missions are being played as the same, maybe with some additions like side quests on Fire Downs Below (which, I think, you cannot start at all, or I am dumb for it), and most importantly, answering the question "what happened to the Kul-Tiras expedition if Thrall has left the island?"
The answer to this question was showcased in, I think, only two Exodus of the Horde versions: from @SevenBlood and @InsaneMonster Re-Reforged. Maybe the Reworked edition included it too (made by @raypack, called "Invasion of Kalimdor Reworked")

Since most of the missions are the same (and I think that on casual difficulty, the last mission "Countdown to Extinction" is WAY EASIER than it is in the current Reforged version, lol). Yes, the last pre-bonus mission is quite strange: quick access to bloodlust and tier 3 upgrades makes it trivial and allows you to clean up at least one (I did two on casual difficulty) murloc camps. Yes, you have added an attack from behind. But it matters little, actually.

The most interesting stuff was the bonus mission. And here I learned that infamous Siege Golems (those bastards, who attack ONLY buildings) cannot walk on water and are quite useless without proper microcontrol. General "IM MURLOC!" swarm destroys everything on their path - especially with two overpowered Murloc Sorcerers and Sea Witch.
Nice usage of their dialogue phrases as their unit voicelines, quite an unusual solution. Yes, I know that this is not big talk, but hey, I was not expecting much from the Exodus of the Horde campaign rework, which is hard to improve.

I can say only one thing: although this campaign adds a few cool things and basically replays the same as it was (balance tweak is balance tweak, IMO it's not content), but, if I were you, I would start to develop some adjusted story about Sea Witch and her murlocs, culminating in her demise in future Warcraft lore from Cataclysm.
You can even use this race in a campaign. And it would play nice, really.
But I'm not pushing or ordering you, just a mere suggestion

10

from 10.
3/5 just for making a smooth bonus mission.
Like for Exodus of the Horde.
But try to expand on it, and it would pay well

 

[deepstrasz]

Meager edit overall.
Simple.

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