b. Chapter two: Digging up the dead (ROCWU2)

Begin without a base. Group Arthas and ghouls together, and keep meat wagons separate. Ensure meat wagons have auto-gather corpse enabled.

Head right to destroy the scout tower, then advance with Arthas and ghouls to eliminate the footmen. Keep meat wagons at a safe distance to avoid their splash attack. Use meat wagons to pull footmen from afar for your standard units to intercept, then pull them back.

Proceed forward for a brief cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically). Order meat wagons to attack the watch towers and farms.

When facing 4 footmen, a cannon tower, a watch tower, and two farms, position meat wagons vertically to attack the ground near the footmen, hitting both. Attack once, then retreat meat wagons out of range as footmen advance.

Have Arthas and ghouls intercept the footmen, focusing on low-health targets to avoid losses.

Once footmen are cleared, use meat wagons to destroy the defense towers and then the farms.

Clear an inventory spot for Arthas (a healing potion is recommended) and heal up.

Engage the paladin and four footmen. Keep meat wagons rolled back. Focus the level two paladin first, as he heals footmen. Use Arthas's death coil sparingly due to mana limitations and micro ghouls as they may die faster than the cooldown refreshes.

After the paladin is defeated, he drops a scroll of healing. Use it to heal ghouls and then focus down the remaining footmen.

Bring meat wagons back to destroy any remaining structures if desired.

Bring Arthas to the graveyard southeast of your position and into the circle to complete the first objective.

After the cutscene, establish a base. Move meat wagons to the back of your base to avoid splash damage.

Have one acolyte haunt a gold mine and another build a Necropolis northwest of your base, near the western forest and south of the corn stalks, for defensive positioning of the upgraded Necropolis.

Wait for the Necropolis or gold mine to complete and establish blight before building further.

Send ghouls to harvest lumber. Have an acolyte build a graveyard as close to the eastern forest as possible. Have another acolyte build two ziggurats north of the Necropolis. Acolytes can move on to other tasks after starting construction.

If attacked before having spirit towers, pull ghouls to assist.

Build a Crypt once resources allow. Convert completed ziggurats to spirit towers. Train one additional acolyte and rally them to the gold mine.

Use another acolyte to build more ziggurats on the north side of the base; eight should be sufficient for defense.

If attacked by footmen, pull ghouls to help. Once ziggurats are built and upgraded, upgrade the Necropolis to a Halls of the Dead. Keep an acolyte near ziggurats for repairs.

Obtain upgrades from the graveyard when resources permit. After the Halls of the Dead completes, build a Slaughterhouse if needed (if you still have three meat wagons, it's likely unnecessary). Build another Crypt when possible.

Begin mass training ghouls, up to 70 food capacity. Rally new ghouls to lumber.

With two crypts, train 70 food worth of ghouls. Hotkey your ghouls with Arthas (including lumber gatherers) into two full groups and one smaller group. Hotkey your meat wagons.

Before attacking the alliance, move the two full ghoul groups south across the river.

Clear the three level six golems in the area.

Observe the elevated ledge to your right, follow it south to a ramp, and ascend. A level nine golem will appear; kill it and pick up the Pendant of Energy for Arthas to increase his mana pool for more death coils.

Refresh your attack group if ghouls were lost attacking the level nine golem. Return Arthas and all ghouls to blight for faster health regeneration, aided by Arthas's aura.

Once attack groups are refilled and at near full health, save and move forward.

Cross the river and clear the three level six golems.

Observe the elevated ledge to your right, and follow that to the south till you come to a ramp. Move up here and a level 9 golem will emerge. Kill him and pick up the pendant of energy for Arthas (This item helps an enormous deal as Arthas mana pool does not allow for many death coils).

Refresh your attack group and move Arthas and all the ghouls back to blight for faster health regeneration. Between blight and Arthas aura they will heal back to near full once your attack groups are refilled.

Now with your groups set back up again, save and move forward.