Yes, yes. And leaving a dislike under a YouTube video constitutes a punishment against the YouTuber. Yet by any meaningful definitions of the word, a punishment incurs a penalty of some sort upon the punished party. In terms of punishments in the legal sense, as would be the case here since Genn committed high treason, those penalties are pretty straightforward and range from fines to gruesome executions. Weirdly enough historical instances of traitors that merely received a talk from their leader are described in the categories of clemency, not punishment. And gee, what would have changed had Anduin put his money where his mouth was? I dunno, how about the factions would have no basis for their conflict anymore? Damn, that was hard to figure out.
I like how you yourself point out how this wouldn't have convinced Saurfang. Yet Genn attacking the Horde with complete impunity from Anduin did. It's like your argumentation physically repelled the very concept of consistency.
The denial here is yours. Sylvanas' plans were just about raising Stormwind's population as Forsaken even when she was already drafting the plans for War of Thorns for Saurfang. The idea that she'd have went down the exact same path she did after Genn fucked her shot at immortality in a timeline where he failed to do that has no grounding in anything resembling logic.
And their work before that constituted of just finding the artifacts and establishing a headquarter. In some cases the organizations itself didn't even exist yet at the time and instead had to be (re)created at the start of the questline. Not leading the charge against the Legion. That happened during the class campaigns at the very least. Which, you know, happened AFTER Stormheim began. So what's this? You failed to address the actual point you were responding to for the thousandth time? Damn, color me surprised. What an unexpected turn of events this is.
Besides, the idea that the factions were at each other's throats immediately after the Broken Shore doesn't pan out if you actually paid attention to the story for once. We've seen the immediate aftermath of the Broken Shore from both sides. Both contain reports on how the other faction took it, yet weirdly enough neither mention any open hostilities in that context. Even in the first Alliance quest in Stormheim, which takes place slightly later on, Genn and Rogers are only permitted to start hostilities with the Horde when provoked. If they were already openly hostile to each other that caveat wouldn't have made any sense.
Also, the BS about the Horde leaving the Alliance without "so much as a warning" continues to be nothing more than a desperate lie. Horn signals constitute warnings. The very purpose of horn signals on a battlefield is to convey information. On top of that, Varian quite clearly understood what the signal meant and did so instantly, even if he didn't understand the "why".
And I just love your blatant dishonesty in the way you handwaved away the fact that the factions fell for a trap (which they did because the Alliance fucked up). Obviously it was on Sylvanas and Sylvanas alone to do something to preserve the peace. Never mind that Detheroc has been unmased while still in Stormwind and Anduin "I'm totally in favor of peace (as long as it means the likes of Genn attacking the Horde with impunity)" Wrynn not only failed to do anything about it, he even failed to connect the dots. But hey, I guess that didn't count ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On top of that you're merrily ignoring that Sylvanas wasn't even the Horde commander at the Broken Shore. Vol'jin was. And he ordered Sylvanas to save the Horde. Furthermore, the idea that the Horde was in any position to help the Alliance is bogus. Their position had just been bombarded by the spaceships Vizuul had summoned and their ranks had been broken. All the while demons continued to pour in from the portals at the Horde ledge.
Finally, even if Sylvanas had a Val'kyr to spare (which is a nonsensical premise given the above), what was that Val'kyr supposed to save Varian from, exactly? At the time of the Horde retreat, the situation on the Alliance easy-mode side of the battleground was not only stable, the Alliance was winning. And immediately afterwards their gunship (that Varian was too stupid to bring to the battleground from the get go) provided the air support that the Horde's retreat temporarily deprived the Alliance of AND allowed them an easy way out. Varian died because of the Fel Reaver that wasn't even on Azeroth at the time. Gul'dan summoned it after the Horde was already gone and the Alliance already boarded the gunship. And there is no logical link whatsoever between Gul'dan summoning that Fel Reaver and the Horde's retreat.
We neither needed Odyn's helps (his biggest contribution in the entire war was destroying a single Legion ship), nor were we actively seeking it. Again, we were in Stormheim after the Aegis and the way we pursued the Aegis was trying to complete the trials, not sucking up to Odyn. Also, as per the dungeon dialogue, Eyir was salty towards the mortals because of what she witnessed in Stormheim. With what she witnessed being Sylvanas' attempt at capturing her and the Worgen attacking the Forsaken. Yet Odyn continued not giving a shit and was cheering on our VALOR. Likewise, even after the dungeon he merrily cheered Horde players on as they aided the Forsaken in their fight against the Worgen, just as he cheered on the Alliance players aiding the Worgen. If you were right, which as per usual you're not, one would think Odyn would show even a little bit of favoritism in those quests.
Please what? Genn figuring out that Sylvanas is after Val'kyr only when he got to Skold-Ashil is literally a part of the Alliance questline. Prior to that he states multiple times he has no clue what she's after. The only things you're achieving here is presenting Genn as so stupid that his intellect is inferior to that of toddlers and once again showing off that you don't even know the Alliance side of the events you somehow consider yourself fit to talk about.
Keep building those straw-men. Maybe one day one of them will Pinocchio itself into a real boy argument.
Come the hell on. You've been through this multiple times both with me and with @Super Dickmann. As per the Alliance side of the relevant questline (which you of course don't know either, because why would you ever inform yourself at least about the Alliance side of things) Varian himself acknowledged that the Wrathgate has been committed by people he himself considered to be not Horde. Unless you found an answer as to how the Horde could have lost Undercity to itself, hmm? Because the last time I asked you this question you somehow failed to provide an answer. Likewise, the fact that the only reference to the Forsaken in his declaration of war was him insulting Sylvanas, with everything else being about his salt towards the Orcs also hasn't changed since the last time you took a swing at this topic and failed to provide any counter-arguments once your initial premise has been contested.
Yes, I suppose the cheap appeal to emotions of "but muh Genn's son" you're using here in lieu of an actual argument can be described with the word "audacity". Meanwhile in the real world, Anduin was the leader of a kingdom and of a multinational military alliance. Where sentiments play second fiddle to realpolitik. And the way things were, the war during which Sylvanas "murdered" his son had by then been over. On top of that, Anduin gave Genn explicit orders not to attack the Horde unless warranted. And then he himself thought that Genn violated those orders, meaning that Anduin himself somehow didn't consider muh "murdered" son as a valid excuse.
I like how you immediately assumed your appeal to emotion wouldn't have worked so you decided to support it with blatant whataboutism for good measure. Never mind that there is not a single confirmation that Garrosh knew what happened in Gilneas as we haven't seen him give the slightest shit about the area after the events of Worgen starting zone. Meanwhile on the other hand we know for a fact that Anduin not only knew about what transpired in Stormheim, but he considered it to be a violation of his orders.