Project Black Ice
Story
During the third war, the Lich King noticed how much more powerful, and more intelligent the Ice Trolls were compared to Forest Trolls, sense Ice Trolls were mostly in Northrend, Ner'zhul wanted to take advantage of these powerful warriors to increase his army power. However when Illidan damaged the Frozen Throne, the Lich King was losing his power, thus losing control of a fraction of his army(this is when sylvannas broke apart and a number of other undead minions joined her) Including this was the Ice Trolls, which were enhanced by a large degree with Demonic Corruption, once they weren't capable of creating a civilization, and were merely just brute hostile units in Tribes. Now King Malakk came to Throne to gather up the tribes that were in control by the Lich King, King Malakk wanted take advantage of this, and take his shot onto the world, so he created a Elite fighting force to defend off the scourge while there new empire was formed.King Malakk traveled to Kalimdor during the third war, before the orcs discovered Kalimdor, they were searching for allies, while searching, one of King Malakks search parties ran into a underground cave full of Dark Trolls, most of the search party was killed, but King Malakk had interest in these trolls, hes heard they are the most populated troll race in azeroth, and he felt he could use that to his advantage. So he sent a small army, along with himself into the underground cave, he ran into many magic wielding trolls, known as warlocks, it was a fierce fight as him and his small army traveled the underground cave, until he ran into there clans chieftan, Zan'gash. King Malakk challenged Zan'gash for the supremacy of his clan, after a fierce fight, King Malakk defeated Zan'gash, cut off his head, and showed it to his clan, telling them they belong to him now.
When gathering the Dark Trolls, he watched as they swarmed out of the cave, hundreds of warlocks, and powerfully built warrors gathered by a lake near by. Before he came to Kalimdor he also made allies with numerous tribes of other races that want revenge against the Lich King and rest of the world.
After Arthas fused with Ner'zhul, most of the Scourge went back to northred, while The lich King re-gathers his army and plans his invasion. King Malakks Empire grew to a large extend, having many allies from the north, and new ones including the Dark Trolls,few tribes of Jungle and forest trolls, the New Troll Empire was a new threat to deal with, though the Horde and Alliance didn't know about it until a few raiding and scouting parties attacked Theremore and a few outposts of the Horde. Though they had no idea it was a entire Empire invading until some orc scouts and theremore scouts discovered a massive army marching across Kalimdor.
They also found out that isn't even close to the there full army, many scouts discovered several massive armies across Eastern Kingdoms and around Kalimdor.
Each faction needs to find allies fast, and put a end to this new Empire. The Night elves fully joined the Stormwind Alliance, giving there full support. The Forsaken also made a similiar of course temporary pact with the Horde. A numbers of units from each faction have joined the horde and Alliance. Though it may not be enough to stop King Malakk and his massive Troll Empire...
I've looked up numerous things like on Wow Wiki, and this fanfic story Can fit perfectly with the timeline, sense this is between WoW and Warcraft 3, I've looked up numerous names, tribes, the Ice trolls and Dark trolls, so I tried hard to make it so they fit in. Sense there is a 5 year difference, and little info between them besides a few books it gives me and a friend working with me in this a great opportunity to create this. King Malakk is a actual character in world of warcraft, there isn't much lore for him but hes the perfect candidate to lead this new empire. He is currently the Frost King of Gundrak city in Northrend. Which after the Troll Empire is obviously defeated he retreats back to Northrend and commands a decent army and stays at his capital, and lives in peace, though hes i pretty evil, the lore defines him as greedy, evil and ravenous. Also I can't remember offhand but not long ago Zul'drak nation was formed in which is a Ice Troll Nation. So I can make this whole story make sense =).
General
"Old, old information from week agos, hasn't been updated yet"
Night Elves and the Undead are no longer playable in this project, you can use some of the units that were in them in each factions arsenal. This project will mainly focus on 3 factions, which the story revolves around this new Troll Empire, in which later on a more detail storyline on where they came from, and how they could hide themselves will be revealed later on.
The new Troll Empire, focuses on brute force, in which most units have either piercing, sieging, or magic damage. Sense most units will be pretty powerful, most will be considered unarmored, so they have less armor(defense).
in this map there will be small neutral Hostile bases in specific locations, normally they will be demonic or renegade orcs, if they are destroyed, theres rewards.
In this first map it will be a set of islands, which mostly contain ogres everywhere, each island is a decent size for a base, each contain a Goldmine, a good amount of gold. You can't rush in this one, there are shipyards everywhere however.
There will be campaign maps, but until then it will mostly be special melee maps. I would also like to mention that because there are only 3 factions now, it will be easier to balance, thus we can add more units, a lot more.
This is the progress we have so far
Terrain-72%
Terrain Detail-62%
Units-56%
Models-23%
Triggers-0%
Job Openings
The biggest thing we need at the moment is a good modeler, reason is we need icey kinda troll buildings, and specific troll models. I've tried requesting for models on numerous sites, but I've been mostly ignored.
So far there are only 2 of us on the team(officially) we would like 3, which should be the Modeling position, this is a very important position, and greatly needed.
Also in this map there will be small neutral Hostile bases in specific locations, normally they will be demonic or renegade orcs, if they are destroyed, theres rewards.
In this first map it will be a set of islands, which mostly contain ogres everywhere, each island is a decent size for a base, each contain a Goldmine, a good amount of gold. You can't rush in this one, there are shipyards everywhere however.
Within a week I will add a lot more information, Organize this thread some, and post some screenies of the terrain and units.
Units
New Troll Empire(Temporary name)
Troll Warrior- A powerful Ice Troll equipped with very sharp and powerful blades attached to there wrists. They start out with around 21-23 damage, but are considered small or unarmored for there defense, seeing how they have no armor. Though with there fast attack speed and damage, don't doubt them, for they are powerful in numbers
Troll Slayer- This is pretty much a headhunter only its a ice troll carrying and spear with sharp icey ends.
Frost Wolf Rider- This unit carries a large Icey axe riding a Frost Wolf, similar to the orc unit "Raider" Only its damage is considered normal rather then siege, this unit is good if you want to scout or hunt down weak units fleeing battle.
Frost Priest- Weak range unit that can cast heal and has a aura that slows enemies movement. Has magic damage type.
Shadow Warlock- Weak ranged unit that can cast Raise dead and a Aura like Bloodlust, which increases HP by 20%, gives unit +4 damage and +2 armor. has Chaos damage type.
Shadow Warlord- Powerful Ranged unit that has a weak unholy aura.
Frost Warlord- Powerful Melee unit that has a weak Endurance Aura.
icey Catapult- Not as strong as the orcs catapult but has a spell that allows it to slow unit production when it hits a building.
here is the terrain I got so far, just look at the mini-map and you'll know I've gotten a lot done on it.
http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blackiceterrainwj6.jpg
