Originally Posted by
Jackstraw
Yeah, but here is the thing: all the Alliance does bad gets reframed so that it's actually always the Horde.
Theramore is heavily painted as bad because of the mana bomb and the emotional perspective of Jaina, and Brennadan has parents impaled to walls while children stare crying.
The Horde is responsible, that's fine: responsibility makes for apt narrative when developed properly.
The Alliance carpet bombs the surroundings of civilians escaping Taurajo, kills children or at least threatens it by admission of quest text, sends purging squads to Vol'dun to exterminate Vulperas especially.
The Alliance would be responsible, but much rather the scissor that's invisible in World of Roguecraft something excuses the actions of the Alliance or it gets straight up rewritten because of some kind of (legitimate or not) complaint on how the Alliance would end up being portrayed.
So in the end we have a clear good and a clear bad, because one faction cannot do any bad and the other always will be put in a position to do so, no matter the wishes of its player base who way back when were content of being the edgy anti hero.
So at the end of the day it's not a matter of explanation, but on how the writers see the plot and characters, and how it all gets furthered. There's no agency on that from the players, hasn't been in a very long time.
Also, I always sigh when I see the overwhelming firepower of the Vindicaar being mentioned. The Vindicaar with all its might could open a small hole in a wall during its most significant deployment. Hardly something to write home about: if we're going with what's shown, the catapults that burned Teldrassil to the ground sport a way superior destructive power.