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THW.TTC19 Katrana Prestor
- Author(s)
- Footman16
- Tags
- Altered Melee
- Size
- 33.53 MB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 43
- Created
- May 21, 2025
- Updated
- May 22, 2025
- Resources
- 1
- State
Pending
This bundle is marked as pending. It has not been reviewed by a staff member yet.
How to Play
To play as Katrana Prestor and the Dark Horde, set race to Orc and handicap to 90%.
Features
The Dark Horde features a wide variety of units from Orcs, Trolls and Ogres to even the fearsome Black Draonflight itself. Whilst at first glance there are many similarities to the original Horde, in the form of the Marauder (counterpart to the grunt) and the Predator (counterpart to the Headhunter) it will soon become apparent that they are not the same, from the unique upgrades to different stats and playstyles available. Whilst Thrall's Horde had Tauren and Jungle Trolls, their place is taken by Smolderthorn Trolls and Ogres. An emphasis on damage and melee strength means that placement, tactics and offence will be a strong priority to best make use of the power this faction offers. Scarshields offer a fast moving melee piercing unit to quickly kill casters but who can later be upgraded to Blackhands, who expand their killing to heavy armoured units. Firegut Smashers will quickly raze any buildings in a matter of seconds and prevent towers from responding. Owlriders will leave any enemy air units completely paralysed on the ground where the waiting ground force will be quick to finish them off.
Base Defence
In terms of base defence the Dark Horde have two options available to them. Their main building: Dark Pit, Great Cavern and Dragon Lair all emit a deep and powerful heat from the creature that resides within dealing a small amount of damage per second to every enemy who dares enter their base.
They can also research the Hatchlings upgrade making the newly born black dragons swarm to the bonepits where they will spit fire at any intruders who stray too close. This along with the Rock Towers will make a dangerous web of damage for any who wish to attack.
Unique Features
Bonepits are where the Dark Horde put all the corpses of the slain to rot and be sorted and scavenged. These bonepits also home various butchers and "chefs" who then take the remaining bones and turn them into food to feed the vast armies. This bone soup will heal a target friendly unit and up to two charges can be stored per bonepit, once used, the bone kitchens will slowly replenish these charges.
The Dark Horde also features a unique set of items from Dragon Totems to the Orb of Spellfire which burns mana on every attack.
Weaknesses
The path to strength often comes at a cost of intelligence and with Katrana being the only exception mana will be low and hard to come by for the Dark Horde's heroes and units. The scroll of learning can abate this slightly but expensive spells carry an expensive price and care will need to be taken not to burn out too quickly before the war is won.
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Credits
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Hearthstone's another feedback to Warcraft III 
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Lovely race, lovely heroine (well, at least in human form, khm).
I will update my review a bit later, but here is a gameplay showcase.
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Update 22/05/2025
- Nerfed Rend's W from 30/40/50 to 20/30/40% and AoE to 450
- Dragon Riders are now level 5
- Seers reduced to level 3
- True Form nerfed hp bonus by 200
- Music re-imported as .mp3 so drastically reduce filesize
- Changed animation attachments of enforcer to large
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Great map! Had lots of fun with it... though not a single Black Dragon/Drake/Whelp unit felt a little weird at times...
Suggestion: Instead of pick Master of Sorcery or Master of Deception, add pick Victor Nefarius (master of Sorcery) or Katrana Prestor (Master of Deception).
Suggestion: Instead of pick Master of Sorcery or Master of Deception, add pick Victor Nefarius (master of Sorcery) or Katrana Prestor (Master of Deception).
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If I did that then I don't think it would fit the theme of the contest very much
maybe once the contest is over I could make that change but for now, she is the focus of the whole techtree and faction.Yeah, tbf Onyxia can summon whelps and the Dragon Rider rides a drake and if it's imported into a map with a black dragonroost mercenary camp you could get them that way, unfortunately there'd be no real way to add them in a balanced manner to a faction like this.
Glad you enjoyed it and had fun!
