c. Chapter three: Into the Realm Eternal (ROCWU3)

As this mission starts you are thrown right into combat as you level a high elf outpost.

One acolyte automatically begins haunting the goldmine to the north (confirm this and make sure it doesnt get destroyed).

Take another acolyte and build your necropolis right next to the forest on the south side of this base, center between the southwest and southeast paths.

Turn on your necromancers auto-cast for skeleton warriors, as you will get attacked soon by.

Once you do focus down Sylvanus first, followed by the rest of the units.

You want your ghouls to survive primarily, but try to keep all your units alive.

Turn off auto-cast for skeletal warriors after the battle.

Once the necropolis completes have your ghouls start harvesting lumber and returning it to the necropolis for now.

Build two ziggurats on each side of the necropolis as far south as you can and upgrade to a halls of the dead right away.

Your next task will be a graveyard; build this next to the forest by the gold mine.

Build a crypt as well, but you can build it out of the way as you will not need it for much.

Once the ziggurats complete upgrade them and train one additional acolyte and send him to the gold mine.

Take your construction acolyte back down to the south and build two additional ziggurats on each side of the necropolis.

Build them vertically on each side as close to the necropolis as you can get it; build one on top and one on bottom for each side (your ghouls should have cleared the forest away by now).

Upgrade these all when they complete and this will be more than sufficient for defense.

Now when you have the resources build two temples of the damned and a slaughterhouse, and get only the damage upgrade from the graveyard.

Your attack group will consist almost entirely of necromancers.

You will want about 6 total meat wagons and the rest of the group necromancers.

At this time turn on your meat wagons auto-collect corpses if you have not yet and move them near the graveyard to fill up on corpses.

Once the temple(s) complete get the skeletal longevity and adept training upgrades.

If you still have your three meat wagons train three more and if you still have the five ghouls you started with, kill one or two off to stay in "no upkeep".

You probably have more than enough lumber by now anyway.

Order your ghouls to now harvest the forest next to the graveyard.

Have your newly trained meat wagons collect corpses as well and as a meat wagon fills up, move it away from the graveyard.

Once about three meat wagons are filled up start training necromancers.

Keep all necromancers auto-cast off of course.

Train them up to 70 food and form them into the first two attack groups with Arthas in each one.

After this is done you should have about 18 necromancers.

Let your meat wagons finish filling up on corpses if they need to; you shouldn't have many left to get.

Assign your meat wagons into another attack group and head out of your base down the southwest path.

Move down to the runes and once you get there bring up your meat wagons and order them to attack the ground at the trees.

After they are cleared out wide enough for your wagons to fit through, move them through and move Arthas southwest just enough to spot the first defense tower to the elf base.

Line up your meat wagons outside the base (do not attack yet) and save your game.

You may get attacked out here (once the trees were destroyed it opened a path for your base to get attacked by), so be ready in case that occurs.

Just take them out regularly; do not spawn any skeletons.

Anyway when you are lined up, order each group of necromancers to summon skeletons and they will do so from your meat wagons.

After this turn on auto-cast for them and send your skeleton warriors into the base.

Keep your necromancers and meat wagons out of the battle for now.

Let your necromancers continue summoning skeleton warriors and sending them in as they come until all the units that come to attack are finished off.

At this point move your meat wagons up just to take out the defense tower.

Continue advancing your skeleton warriors through the base but again leave your meat wagons and necromancers back a bit.

Clear out any additional units and then order your meat wagons to destroy the defense tower in the middle of the base near the town hall.

Once you have a decent foothold in the base turn off your necromancers auto-cast and start moving your acolytes that were harvesting the gold mine down here (it has more than likely collapsed by now).

Order an acolyte to haunt this gold mine once the majority of the base is leveled.

After that with the gold you have (you should have quite a bit still), refresh your necromancer and meat wagon groups as needed and rally them down to this area.

If you need quite a few of them have every other meat wagon that comes out collect corpses from the graveyard at your main base and then move them down to your outpost once they are full.

While your acolytes are waiting on the gold mine to be haunted have them repair your meat wagons as needed.

Build a graveyard down here too, and 8 ziggurats on the right side of your outpost.

After this use an acolyte to unsummon an equal number of ziggurats from your base.

You will be attacked down here so when you do use Arthas and skeleton warriors to fight and keep the rest of your units back.

If you get attacked prior to your defense towers being established summon skeleton warriors and immediately after move your meat wagons and necromancers out of the fight.

After any fight roll your meat wagons over to collect the corpses.

If you have not already spend Arthas attribute point in unholy aura.

Once your groups are refreshed up to 70 food order your first group of necromancers to summon skeletons, and send the skeletons with Arthas out of the base to the southeast, and take the first left to reach a fountain.