Originally Posted by
derah
to all the people in the comments suddenly blaming the horde for what happened here, remember three things.
1: The horde was being attacked by far more than the alliance did. The alliance just had to deal with lots of demons on the ground. The horde on the other hand, was being bombarded by legion spaceships from the sky, on top of just as many demons on the ground as the alliance was. Its a miracle they held on for as long as they did. Do the horde version of the scenario if you don't believe me. The cinematic fails to show the giant spaceships blasting the shit out of our troops.
2: The alliance explicitly said that they needed the horde to provide air support in order for them to make their big push, and the only reason they sounded the retreat was because the horde couldn't provide said air support. Had the horde remained instead of retreating what would that accomplish? The horde would die down to the last man and woman, and the alliance is still without the horde providing air support, thus the alliance would have had to retreat anyways. The horde wouldn't have been able to provide support had they chose to sacrifice themselves, because again they were getting blasted from the sky by fucking spaceships. So its not like the horde would have been able to provide more than at best five seconds of cover fire before getting slaughtered.
3: Jaina is a fucking hypocrite for blaming the horde for what happened. She herself did the exact same thing that the horde did on the broken shore, the last time the legion invaded. She and her forces held archimonde on hyjal for as long as they could, but when they were overwhelmed, they sounded the retreat, and fled, rather than die pointlessly. Now she's giving shit to the horde, calling them dishonorable cowards, for doing what she herself did the last time the legion came a'knocking.
Have a good day.