Would a "Warfront" style AoS/DotA-ish map would succeed?

[Ardenaso]

Other than creeps moving to attack the base and the players farming to kill other players and destroy the enemy base, there's one extra role where some roaming support or ganker would gather gold/iron/lumber then use them to upgrade the base to either:

• improve their HP and armor
• deal more damage
• spawn additional creep types
• allow players to hire controllable creeps
• give buff to players
• teleport to forward points

like in this video

(for those who don't play WoW - yes, Blood Elves are Horde and Muradin is still alive)

 

[Chaosy]

It's basically footmen vs grunts with a twist so I would say so.

 

[Pwnica]

In a Game like wc3 where evryone want to be the damage role or the ganking role...
You want a gathering and building role.. and when the building/gathering/support role leaves the game in one team?
that’s the problem in a game like wc3 people can leave a game easily and no one will take the place of this guy...

 

[Chaosy]

Doesn't have to.

You could make it so you train peons to automatically gather. You have some creative liberty

 

[Ardenaso]

In a Game like wc3 where evryone want to be the damage role or the ganking role...
You want a gathering and building role.. and when the building/gathering/support role leaves the game in one team?
that’s the problem in a game like wc3 people can leave a game easily and no one will take the place of this guy...

hopefully at that point the others are already farmed enough to roam and do the gathering when it's not teamfight