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f.  Chapter six: The Culling (ROCWH6)
Warcraft III: Reforged

f. Chapter six: The Culling (ROCWH6)

Guide to Warcraft III: Reforged's The Culling mission. Destroy plagued villager houses and kill 100 zombies before Mal'Ganis claims them.

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Guide to Warcraft III: Reforged's The Culling mission. Destroy plagued villager houses and kill 100 zombies before Mal'Ganis claims them.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Train a few more peasants, assign one more to gold, and a couple more to lumber.
  2. 2
    Build about 5 watch towers (upgrade them to scout towers) near the town hall to defend against minor attacks.
  3. 3
    Build the rest of your base in the top right area.
  4. 4
    Build a blacksmith and upgrade your town hall.
  5. 5
    Get the improved masonry upgrade from the lumber mill.
  6. 6
    After you have a keep, get the improved lumber gathering upgrade from the lumber mill.
  7. 7
    Take Arthas with the starting 2 footmen and 2 knights south into the town.
  8. 8
    Start dropping houses and killing villagers as quickly as possible to prevent them from turning into undead.
  9. 9
    A cut-scene will occur indicating Mal'Ganis will start claiming villagers.
  10. 10
    If you encounter Mal'Ganis, focus all fire on him and use Arthas's Holy Light to drop him quickly.
  11. 11
    Ensure your scout towers are upgraded and start attacking the next house.
  12. 12
    While attacking houses, get damage and armor upgrades for knights from the blacksmith, the lumber harvesting upgrade (if not already done), and the next rank of masonry.
  13. 13
    Once you have the resources, upgrade your keep to a castle.
  14. 14
    While your base is being set up, order Arthas and his group to attack a house and let them auto-attack villagers when they turn undead.
  15. 15
    Once your base is set up, focus on killing villagers.
  16. 16
    Destroy a couple more houses and villagers, then get your second ranks of melee weapons and armor upgrades.
  17. 17
    Stay away from Mal'Ganis for now.
  18. 18
    Once your castle is complete, get the final rank of lumber harvesting, animal war training for knights, then start training knights and set their rally point to Arthas.
  19. 19
    When Arthas levels up, get his Devotion Aura upgrade.
  20. 20
    If Mal'Ganis attacks before you have a good number of knights, retreat to your base and focus on destroying houses elsewhere to buy time.
  21. 21
    Head to the top left if Mal'Ganis chased you from the bottom, or to the bottom right if he chased you from the top left.
  22. 22
    Keep your barracks queue full with knights and get the final upgrades from the blacksmith for knights.
  23. 23
    Get the final rank of masonry if desired.
  24. 24
    Keep knights training, repair defenses as needed, and build farms as needed.
  25. 25
    Focus on destroying houses.
  26. 26
    Train a few more peasants if you cannot produce knights steadily.
  27. 27
    If a meat wagon attacks, use a knight to finish it off or wait for one from the barracks.
  28. 28
    If purple attacks your knights instead of towers at your base, run around until towers kill them, then deal with the meat wagon.
  29. 29
    If you have excess resources, build another barracks and train knights from there.
  30. 30
    Hotkey both barracks to the same key for even distribution of knight training.
  31. 31
    Regularly update your attack group.
  32. 32
    Keep destroying houses and alternating back to your base if needed.
  33. 33
    If you need to do things at your base, ensure your group is attacking a house before you leave.
  34. 34
    Once you have a full group of 11 knights and Arthas, you can safely attack Mal'Ganis.
  35. 35
    Shift-command your army to attack 4 or 5 houses at once.
  36. 36
    If you encounter Mal'Ganis, focus fire him down and keep Arthas's Holy Light on healing.
  37. 37
    If any knights die, resurrect them.
  38. 38
    Focus on destroying houses and villagers.
  39. 39
    Be aware that Mal'Ganis resurrects in the lower left; if you kill him there, move to the right side of the map.
  40. 40
    Zerg attack a bunch of houses and clear the villagers a few times, staying away from Mal'Ganis as much as possible.
Tips
  • You can indicate when a house has been destroyed when the screen shakes a bit.
  • Once the castle is assembling, have a peasant start building additional farms and shift-command them to your watch towers to turn on auto-repair.
  • Hotkey your barracks.
  • Your knights can outrun meat wagons.
  • If you get a second barracks, hotkey both to the same key, and any knights you order will be evenly distributed between the barracks.
  • The undead are weak and your knights can drop houses in about a minute.
  • Arthas's undead don't do too much damage to your knights.
  • A group of 11 knights is plenty to finish the mission with.

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