Lordaeron's Legacy

[Footman16]

Chapter 3 is a serious meltdown. I can accept waves of ogres, only if you remove the ogre lords 'force wave', or nerf it, slightly decrease bloodlust attack speed, and for the chapter only, increase tower build-up.
The enemy's hero, "Entangling Roots", is strong, perhaps too much.
In my opinion, either Howl of Terror or small Roar can still make him a good challenge.

I do not understand why you went to a difficulty spike in chapter 2 (which is easy) to chapter 3 (difficulty spikes so high).
Played on the latest Lordaeron's Legacy Reforged campaign version.
WC Reforged v2.02.

Anyway, the campaign plays smoothly.

The honest answer is because I first made this over 8 years ago when I was younger and not very good at map making

Whilst I've updated it since then the campaign could still use another big update for Chapters 1,4 and 5 and a general update to add different difficulties as well as some other polishing

 

[KakaPipi]

Difficulty is too high. Couldn't finish it without cheats.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Lordaeron's Legacy

The First Campaign in the Tales of the Alliance.

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Okay. To what I can add to my previous review: chapter 4 and the final chapter have some balance quirks, too.
Especially for the final chapter - maybe its due to playing on the Reforged version, but I still somehow managed to complete it with rifleman-only doomstack, even with problems.

Overall, I can say that if this is your first RTS campaign (correct me if I'm wrong), then you did very good job. Missions are nice to play, but still some balance polishing is required. It would be nice to introduce proper difficulty selection, tweaking AI according to the selected difficulty.
Right now, the campaign, IMO, poses an inadequate difficulty spike from chapter 2 to chapter 3, slightly lowering in chapter 4 and the final chapter.
If there were a chapter between 2 and 3 that will show gradual difficulty grow, it would be cool.
Otherwise...

If you like playing Lordaeron thematical campaigns but dont wanna play as Arthas once more, this campaign offers you that.
Like.

 

[Footman16]

Lordaeron's Legacy

The First Campaign in the Tales of the Alliance.

www.youtube.com

Okay. To what I can add to my previous review: chapter 4 and the final chapter have some balance quirks, too.
Especially for the final chapter - maybe its due to playing on the Reforged version, but I still somehow managed to complete it with rifleman-only doomstack, even with problems.

Overall, I can say that if this is your first RTS campaign (correct me if I'm wrong), then you did very good job.

Thanks I appreciate that, yes this was my first campaign I managed to complete and release, it says created 2017 but I think I started it in 2015 or 14? So yeah I was much younger and not particularly skilled. Whilst Lordaeron's Destiny still has many flaws you can definitely notice the jump in quality between this and that one.

Missions are nice to play, but still some balance polishing is required. It would be nice to introduce proper difficulty selection, tweaking AI according to the selected difficulty.
Right now, the campaign, IMO, poses an inadequate difficulty spike from chapter 2 to chapter 3, slightly lowering in chapter 4 and the final chapter.
If there were a chapter between 2 and 3 that will show gradual difficulty grow, it would be cool.
Otherwise...

Yeah I revamped Chapter 2 and the interlude a couple of years ago so they're much better but I really need to go back and revamp the whole thing and bring it up to the quality I expect. I'd probably completely re-terrain missions 1 and 4 and make mission 4 take place in a slightly different location to make it more distinct from mission 5.

Thanks for playing through it and I hope to have time to update this campaign at some point in the future

 

[QuarantineAbser]

Good, but not perfect, the balancing somewhere is easy and somewhere jumps hard, but otherwise I liked it.

Only Chapter 3 forced me to restart once and the only way to beat it was with tower spam, which is boring way to beat missions since AI don't know how to handle it.

 

[WC3Wonderer]

Does anyone have Lordaron's Legacy for 1.27?

 

[Ravager16829]

Does anyone have Lordaron's Legacy for 1.27?

The author is only supporting either 1.31 or the latest Reforged patch for the campaign series (Tales of Alliance). Path of Valor requires the latest Reforged patch, though.

 

[Blackgrowl]

Played this campaign some few years ago, I remember going to Alterac and fighting Ogres, that was mad fun!

It's a great and simple campaign, well worth it.

 

[Footman16]

Played this campaign some few years ago, I remember going to Alterac and fighting Ogres, that was mad fun!

It's a great and simple campaign, well worth it.

Glad you enjoyed it, 4 stars is very generous, I really need to go back and update it lol.

 

[Palnai]

Thank you for the shout out, Footman16. Always something else when the campaign maker themselves takes note of my vids.

I've recently gotten back to the campaign as I never did finished it during my first attempt. Planning on playing both versions, to see the differences.
Currently learning to deal with ogres or more over, how to get towers up fast enough to kill them. Feels like there's an art to it.

 

[Dancyspartan]

Short campaign compensated with infuriating and unfair difficulty. Nothing special. Very disappointing after the quite excellent Path to Valour.

EDIT: The grade stands, but I wasn't aware of the large span of time between the this and Path to Valour. The review I gave also mentions nothing concrete except that it wasn't as good as another campaign - which is not at all helpful. I can, however, not contribute with anything meaningful other than what has already been said in other reviews.
Sidenote: I'm playing through Lordaeron's Destiny at the moment; and it is quite excellent indeed. Had a LOT of fun with Scholomance.
Difficult missions, but fair. Shorter and more focused; as in contrast to Legacy.

 

[Footman16]

Short campaign compensated with infuriating and unfair difficulty. Nothing special. Very disappointing after the quite excellent Path to Valour.

Yeah tbf this was the first campaign I ever released so it definitely shows it's age and I was a lot younger myself when it was made. It could definitely use an update in the future.

 

[Dancyspartan]

Yeah tbf this was the first campaign I ever released so it definitely shows it's age and I was a lot younger myself when it was made. It could definitely use an update in the future.

Updated my ""review"" with some nuance, excuse the original bluntness which was steeped in some frustration.
I think you are a lot better off focusing your efforts on new entries in your campaign series.
I'm very excited to see what you come up with next

 

[Footman16]

Updated my ""review"" with some nuance, excuse the original bluntness which was steeped in some frustration.
I think you are a lot better off focusing your efforts on new entries in your campaign series.
I'm very excited to see what you come up with next

Oh don't worry, Lordaeron's Legacy and Destiny both taught me a lot of lessons that made The Path to Valour what it is. I'm working on another campaign set in Stormwind but I think it would be nice for me to go back at some point and elevate Legacy and Destiny to the same quality as my current works.

Lordaeron's Legacy is a bit... crap lol. Destiny is a big improvement but still has some issues in some missions, Scholomance was definitely a highlight but the rest of Destiny should've been at that level of quality.

 

[RogerPravina]

Unfortunatelly i had a bitter experience with this campaign, the first mission was great, well designed, even felt a bit easy but suitable for a first mission, but it still got me excited to play through all of it.

Everything changed on mission 2 however, the first attack wave was not even hard, it was simply unfair, just like how Jayborino mentioned, the enemy rushes you with way more units than your initial roster, their Dreadguard is like a tier 2 unit compared to your Footmen, they have Aboms while you can't even train knights, their catapults prevents you from building towers to turn that narrow path into a TD corridor, not to mention that one of their units keeps spamming stun on Condor while their rangers completely melts him down.

It's somehow possible to defend against the first wave by sacrificing every unit you have while barely even keeping Condor alive, luring them into your base and turning your peasants into millitia, but then there is the second wave which is just impossible to defend against while you're still rebuilding your base and replenishing lost units. Even if i DID manage to survive the second, third waves, there would absolutely no chance to ever make an offensive comeback with the given limited resources.

If only that Vanndar Stormpike helps me fighting against the undead, i might even have a chance, but no, he just stands still there watching me fight a meter away from him.

I am using classic 1.31.1 since i hate Reforged, so i am quite aware of the insane difficulty spike bug on that version, it happened the very same thing when i played Curse of the Forsaken, one of the missions there was borderline impossible until i found out that the difficult was not intentional, so i had to download 1.30 only so that i could finish that campaign.

Since Lordaeron's Legacy can only be played on 1.31.1, i'm not quite sure how it's even considered to be playable on classic.
Reading some of the comments, i see that there is an even harder mission like the one with the mentione ogres, so maybe it's not even worth it to keep trying at this point.

 

[Palnai]

Unfortunatelly i had a bitter experience with this campaign, the first mission was great, well designed, even felt a bit easy but suitable for a first mission, but it still got me excited to play through all of it.

Everything changed on mission 2 however, the first attack wave was not even hard, it was simply unfair, just like how Jayborino mentioned, the enemy rushes you with way more units than your initial roster, their Dreadguard is like a tier 2 unit compared to your Footmen, they have Aboms while you can't even train knights, their catapults prevents you from building towers to turn that narrow path into a TD corridor, not to mention that one of their units keeps spamming stun on Condor while their rangers completely melts him down.

It's somehow possible to defend against the first wave by sacrificing every unit you have while barely even keeping Condor alive, luring them into your base and turning your peasants into millitia, but then there is the second wave which is just impossible to defend against while you're still rebuilding your base and replenishing lost units. Even if i DID manage to survive the second, third waves, there would absolutely no chance to ever make an offensive comeback with the given limited resources.

If only that Vanndar Stormpike helps me fighting against the undead, i might even have a chance, but no, he just stands still there watching me fight a meter away from him.

I am using classic 1.31.1 since i hate Reforged, so i am quite aware of the insane difficulty spike bug on that version, it happened the very same thing when i played Curse of the Forsaken, one of the missions there was borderline impossible until i found out that the difficult was not intentional, so i had to download 1.30 only so that i could finish that campaign.

Since Lordaeron's Legacy can only be played on 1.31.1, i'm not quite sure how it's even considered to be playable on classic.
Reading some of the comments, i see that there is an even harder mission like the one with the mentione ogres, so maybe it's not even worth it to keep trying at this point.

If you're fine with some advice, towers are very important in this campaign.
In mission two, at the end of your base and before the water, is a tower and some farms. Build more towers there and probably get some more spearthrowers (or whatever they're called), it should be more manageable, even without pulling peasants.
Just across the water and to the left is a gold mine, expanding there with a wall of towers to defend it is vital.

As for the ogre mission, it is a lot harder. Much like mission two, you want towers but even then it's rough.
It is possible to mess with the AI using sacrificial towers though and it's the only way I was able to win. Just build a tower away from your base, towards the enemy, but not near enough for their towers to attack. If the ogres are kind, they'll attack it and leave though they might huddle for a while so save before sending a peasant out to rebuild. Just leave them be till they leave, any attack or unit nearby will pull the horde.
The timing on it being built might play a factor on it working, need it fully done before the attack arrives at least, if not before it starts moving from their base - I don't check that, I just try and get it built as soon as I can.
The last mission is the toughest of all and I haven't been able to beat it. Too many factors come together to make it really hard to beat, tempo is too high for even sacrificial towers to work.
Ah, and Candor's ult does heal enemies in this version. It's possible to power through it but it does extend fights especially against the magic immune dreadguard.