Originally Posted by
Kazyras
Just some thoughts on the horde:
Orcs: Finally free of demon corruption, the Orcs tell everyone it was the Burning Legion's fault they nearly wiped out the Dranei and humanity, and this time they promise not to do it again. This is immediately followed by a declaration of total war against the Alliance, removing Theramoore from existence, and slaughtering unarmed civilians. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me after that, shame on me/the alliance nations that voted to let you live after stopping your brutal rampage.
Tauren: What the @#$% are these people doing in the horde? It's like the Planeteers (of Captain Planet fame) joined up with the collective host of saturday-morning cartoon villains. In a place full of genocidal, corpse-eating, backstabbing and warmongering peoples, earth-mother worship is as out of place as the normal kid on the Munsters. That is, if the dad in that show had murdered the normal kid's first dad and left a warning not to leave the family or challenge him again. The Horde gets excellent warriors and shock troops out of the Tauren, but what do the Tauren get from being in the Horde these days? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Trolls: So it's not enough you have to win and probably kill your enemies, but you want to eat them too? And do none of you have non-Caribbean accents? Could there be at least one Troll that speaks with proper diction? Vol'jin seems like he gets what's going on in general, but there was that whole "get cast out of our adopted homeland by a level 10 guy " mess, so I dunno for sure.
Forsaken: The biggest problem for the Horde with having the Forsaken be members isn't the foul experiments, terrible PR, power-hungry usurpers, or even the cannibalism. Even raising more people into undeath is sort of understandable. No, the biggest problem is that you're relying on people who already died once before to help you out now. Good luck with that. I usually take people who know how not to get killed as my allies.
Except if they're Blood Elves: More over-dramatic whining from a vaguely androgynous group hasn't been heard since the Smashing Pumpkins broke up. It's like drama and betrayal is all that can nourish them: they betray the alliance, than some of them betray each other to the Lich King, than some more to Illidan and then MORE to the Burning Legion. I'd say try to hug them, work out whatever differences you have, but they'd just put a knife in your back while ranting maniacally about some setback and claiming power for their people. Later, they would also tell whoever was listening that it was your fault too.
Goblins: At least you can pay them to be loyal. While they are a bunch of weaselly, sniveling little backstabbers, they're predictable about it since it all revolves around money for them. I assume that the idea here was to have some sort of counterpart to the gnomes in the alliance, but there is a small problem with that idea: Gnomes will test their dangerously unpredictable tech on themselves, while goblins would rather test it out on anyone other than themselves. Since the Horde is comprised mostly of prideful and angry people, I assume some sort of bloodthirsty mob will eventually set upon them with torches, pitchforks, and a pit of lava in an effort to stop being used as test subjects.
Pandaren: You joined up with the guy that wants to use the Sha, one of your ancient enemies, as a way to empower his forces? At least the rest of you had the good sense to stay out of it or join up with the side that doesn't use the phrase "lesser races" as a part of it's elite military.