| Tower-aid | |
|---|---|
| Episode 2 | |
| Air date | February 15th, 2020 |
| Episode guide | |
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Tower-aid is the second episode of WarCrafts.
Plot[]
The episode starts with an orc peon carrying wooden supplies and walking down the road in the middle of wilderness. As human footman approaches to engage combat, the peon immediately hides in the pile of wood. The footman examines the pile but peon is nowhere to be found. However, a mallet is levitated by itself and starts hammering the wood, followed by a handsaw sawing it after it suddenly summons more wood standing on the ground. This makes the footman dumbfounded as if a ghost is working on tools. The watchtower is erected from the ground as the peon's work is completed.
The watchtower proceeds to shoot arrows by itself even though its interior is vacant. The peon walks away but collides with the tower's leg and drops, unable to get out of the building.
Meanwhile, a lone peasant is ambushed by orc blademaster and its mirror image ability—there are now two blademasters. They punch the peasant back and forth like a tennis game.
The tower attacks the nearby human structure, setting it ablaze. The bell is chimed to call the arms, alarming the peasants to go back to the castle and wear combat gear as militia (pails as helmet and mops as axes). They attack the watchtower which kicks one of the militia off while firing more arrows below.
The blademaster—actually an illusion—doesn't kill a peasant gathering lumber towards the castle, even knocking a handful of lumber off as a peasant ignores both, delivering the lumber empty-handed.
However, the militia is timed-out, making the peasants' armor and weapons vanish. Completely unarmed, the peasants retreat from the watchtower. The footman flees from tower's attack range. Even though the arrows miss the footman running away, he is killed from nothingness.
Epilogue[]
Orc blademaster smiles as he says "wasabi!" until the paladin encounters him along with his fellow footmen. As the paladin strikes him, he casts mirror image ability, letting his illusion fall under human hands in vain while he runs away with a smirk. Meanwhile, a tree is harvested, being watched by an owl scout.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Peasants
- Footman
- Paladin
Orcs[]
- Peon
- Blademaster
Trivia[]
- The peon design is designed as an oversimplified orc unit.
- This is the second time a group of units use cleaning utensils and everyday objects as both weapon and helmet. First time was in a StarCrafts episode, "Spineless Coward".
- The watchtower has a facial expression: its window serves as eyes, and its roof serves as eyelids.
In-game References[]
- Because of different races' method of constructing a building, the peon disappears inside the site when he builds any structure (which is a classic method recently used in previous games WarCraft II and WarCraft), unlike peasants who build a structure while staying at the outer site. The peasant can be commanded to leave the construction, pausing the building in progress.
- The peon is shown trapped inside the watchtower, referring to an in-game glitch as a peon reappears after the building is finished.
- An arrow shooting at a building sets it on fire, referring to how structures burn without using any fire magic or combat.
- Blademaster's illusion does not give any damage to a unit at all, so it's a disadvantage to leave the illusion out of the real blademaster when attacking an opposing unit.
- The bell is chimed as the town hall (including its upgrades keep and castle) enables "Call to Arms" ability, which converts the incoming peasant into militia for self-defensive combat.
- The militia does damage poorly on enemy structures.
- If the militia conversion's 45-second duration ends, they return to work as peasants, their armor immediately disappeared.
- The watchtower's arrow misses the running footman but still deals damage to him until he dies. It is the reference to an in-game animation in which any projectile weapon still hits the running target no matter how far the dodging and evading is.
Video []
WarCrafts 3 Ep 2 "Tower-aid"