How to Play WarCraft 3
Blizzard Entertainment's WarCraft is one of the most popular real time strategy video game series today. WarCraft 3 ups the ante with the addition of races and a specific hero for each race.
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Instructions
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Begin the Game
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Create a profile for your game play at the WarCraft 3 website (see Resources below).
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Your progress will be saved under your profile name so you can return to where you left off at any time. You may want to create more than one profile because there are different campaigns you can play.
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Select which campaign you wish to play. WarCraft 3 has 5 different campaigns: prologue, human, undead, orc and night elf. Each campaign is comprised of different plots and quests. The prologue is an introduction to the story and an interactive tutorial to controlling your characters. The other 4 campaigns follow the different races.
Collect Your Resources
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Highlight most of your peons. Click and drag your mouse over which peons you want to select. You can add more peons by selecting the "Great Hall" then the "Train Peon" button in the action menu in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
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Click the "Gather" icon in the action menu.
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Left click the goldmine on your screen. Your peons will start mining gold.
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Highlight the rest of your peons and click the "Gather" icon.
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Left click the closest trees. The peons will start gathering lumber.
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Keep track of the amount of gold and lumber in the upper right corner of your screen.
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Assign some of your peons to build army barracks by clicking the "Build" icon in the action menu.
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Click on an army barrack and select the "Train" icon in the action menu to produce soldiers.
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Build burrows so you will have enough room for all the characters. Peons will build as many burrows as you need by clicking the "Build" button and then the "Burrow" icon in the action menu. You can assign your peon to a new task once he finishes.
Complete the Main Quest
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Highlight as many soldiers you think you will need on the quest. You will want to leave some soldiers behind to guard your base.
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Click the "Move" icon in the action menu.
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Select a destination anywhere on the main screen or the map in the bottom left corner. The main screen and map will be black in the areas you have not explored.
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Attack enemy troops you will encounter while exploring. Your army will automatically start fighting the enemy but you will want to spread them out. Highlight any soldiers not fighting or fighting in a group, click the "Attack" icon in the action menu and tell them where to attack on the main screen.
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Protect your hero, especially in his early levels. Your hero will gain experience points and move up levels with every enemy kill, but do not put him against too many until at least level 3. Every hero has different attributes that will be accumulates.
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Determine which additional quests to complete along the way. After you explore the map, more quests will be revealed. They are not mandatory to complete but offer beneficial points you may need.
Play With Friends
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Click on the "Battle.net" tab in the main menu.
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Give yourself a profile name and click the "Agree" icon.
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Decide which type of multiplayer game you want. Battle.net gives you the option of playing by yourself or with a specific group.
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Select your race, the type of match and your location.
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Destroy your opponent's buildings to win the multiplayer match.
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Tips & Warnings
The more barracks you build, the faster you will produce soldier. Keep in mind the cost of gold, lumber and food per barrack and soldier.
You may want to leave your hero at the base while the soldiers explore.
