The Horde Needs a Solid and Unequivocal Loss

The Alliance has plenty of reason to fight the Horde. Time after time, the Alliance has shown the Horde mercy. Jaina sacrificed her father to peace. Varian left Orgrimmar standing. And every time, the Horde decides to go and attack the Alliance again. The Horde is convinced the Alliance is their eternal enemy when there has always been a path to peace if the Horde would simply accept it.

For an enemy they insist on fighting, the Horde never actually seems to have reason to fear the Alliance.

See, the attitude that seems to permeate the Horde is that they are convinced of their own superiority and then use that sense of superiority to attack what they perceive as a weaker foe. But that is the opposite of honor. The Horde is theoretically the underdog faction, but at no point has the Horde in general seemed to experience a genuine worry about how they are to survive against an Alliance foe.

The Siege of Orgrimmar saw their capital invaded and captured, but by that point most of the Horde had already turned on Garrosh. This meant that what was theoretically a loss for the Horde actually got turned into a victory.

The Horde never loses.

Now let's talk spoilers:


Obviously the Horde's going to lose Undercity either next week or as the expansion launches. But while the final cutscenes aren't in there yet, it appears very strongly that Sylvanas has turned Undercity into a trap, blowing the place up with a plague bomb after she has lured the Alliance forces into it.

Which means that again, what should be a devastating loss for the Horde is actually just a ploy - an underhanded victory. It robs the Alliance of satisfaction after the loss of Teldrassil while leaving the Horde to feel smug and satisfied. Again.

On my Horde characters, I have no reason to hate the Alliance. Hell, the meeting with the Desolate council showed that even the Forsaken, so convinced that the living humans would hate them simply for what they were, are wrong about it. Sylvanas is a bigger threat to them - even them, the ones that she claims to be doing everything to protect - than the Alliance.

It's not as if the Alliance is lacking for potential threats.

The Worgen, to me, are never played up for the monsters they could and ought to be. They're werewolves, guys! I want to see Horde villages depopulated by fanged beasts.

The Void Elves should be able to assault the very minds of their enemies, driving Horde forces to madness.

And the Lightforged should be unrelenting zealots who make the Scarlet Crusade look like a Bible study group.

I want to see the Horde panicking, struggling to regroup, making a desperate and doomed last stand against the Alliance.

And I say this because I think it would be better for Horde players. Let the Horde actually deserve some moral high ground for a change. Let them be heroes. Let the Alliance go too far.

I want the Daughter of the Sea to rain hell down on the Horde, and for brave Horde heroes to have something worth fighting for.