How to Play Orcs in Warcraft III

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Build Order: 4 of your 5 starting peons send to gold mine while 1 builds an altar of storms.

   Make four more peons.
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   Step 2: First peon builds burrow

   ,  Build your second burrow as soon as you have 40 wood (return resources early to get 40 wood faster.) ,  Queue 3 grunts. ,, Build your third burrow around 26 food and keep grunts in production until you have three to five of them depending on how much you spent on items. You want to keep enough gold to produce everything you need at tier 2 which is listed below.
   
   Before tier 2 finishes upgrading, build a war mill so you can get upgrades, voodoo beasts, and towers if you need them. ,  Build a Beastiary so you can get raiders.
   
   Finally, upgrade berserker strength at your barracks for your grunts. , When Spirit lodge is finished train Shaman and when he is finished upgrade adept training then get 1 more shaman. , Build a kodo beast once you have 2 shamans and 2 raiders + grunts.
   
   The kodo should put you at or near 50/50 food.
   
   Build more burrows and make a few Witch Doctors from Spirit Lounge and Wyverns from Beastiary.
   
   Upgrade Pillage at your Stronghold.
   
   Than build Tauren Totem and train a Earthshaker. ,  I like to also tech to tier 3 before breaking upkeep.  If you can get an expansion then it's safe to break upkeep before all these conditions are met only if the expansion has paid for itself at the very least.
   
   Now, it's time to take the fight to your opponent with all your forces!
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   Step 3: second builds barracks

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   Step 4: third goes to gold mine

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   Step 5: fourth goes to cut lumber.

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   Step 6: When your altar finishes

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   Step 7: queue a Blademaster (WW

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   Step 8: Bladestorm skill order) and scout for the opponent with your altar peon.

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   Step 9: At 16/20 food

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    Step 10: your barracks will finish and you should have 200 gold.

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    Step 11: Upgrade your Great Hall to Stronghold for tier 2 capabilities.

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    Step 12: Build a spirit lounge in your base preferably near the back and creep easy camps near your base with the grunts only while your Blade is harassing your opponent.

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    Step 13: When your upgrade to Stronghold finishes

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    Step 14: train a Far Seer(wolves

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    Step 15: wolves

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    Step 16: far sight

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    Step 17: earthquake skill order).

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    Step 18: Once your tier 2 buildings are done

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    Step 19: build your fourth burrow.

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    Step 20: Once your beastiary finishes

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    Step 21: train your first raider

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    Step 22: research ensnare

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    Step 23: then train another raider

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    Step 24: and build 2 catapults to destroy towers easier.

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    Step 25: A word on Upkeep:  Only break upkeep once you have 50/70 or 50/80 food (20 or 30 unused food) AND you have purchased all the items and upgrades you need AND you have 1000 gold or more in the bank.

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