Another shot of an Orcish base, this time with many new elements for us to feast our eyes on! :)

Let's start with the buildings, down in the middle bottom is umistakenly the Tauren Totem, we can easily see it is this, unlike the last shot where we could only see a little bit of it. Just up and left of it is the Great Hall. Surrounding the Great Hall is a group of three completely new and unknown buildings, they could be anything really, although I have a few suggestions:

1. They could be a new design for the Huts (farms), mainly because there are so many of them, and there are no Huts in site.
2. They might possibly be some strange kind of Bunker (think Starcraft Terrans) building, I think this because they seem to have small openings all around where units could fire out, and there are also the spiked logs sticking out all around. The main problem with this theory is that there aren't really enough ranged ground units in the game to warrant the use of such a building.
3. They may just be an upgrade to the Hut so that it allows for more supply (food) to be provided.
4. They could also be an upgrade that turns the Hut into a Bunker as described in (2).
5. This is the most likely one, they could be something that I haven't even thought of. :)

The last building in this shot is up the top and is the Lumber Mill where we can see three Peons clearing a forest and returning their Lumber to it. There are also two (maybe more) Peons mining from the Goldmine.

The military units consist of two Trolls HeadHunters down in the bottom right, a Blademaster a in the middle, and just to the left and Orc Shaman. Up the top-centre is another Shaman, and over by the unknown buildings are two Taurens. The Taurens look very strange as they seem to be carrying huge logs with strange symbols marked on them, my only guess is that they use these as weapons instead of their old "ball and chain", but they seem a bit cumbersome as a weapon. The Shaman has some lovely looking spell icons - from left to right; Earthbind (brings air units to the ground), System Shock (a dispel magic spell) and an unknown spell that he seems to have cast on the Blademaster, it looks like some sort of Electricity Shield.

It seems that blizzard have finally given us a Multiplayer screenshot as the "Allies" and "Chat" button's are both not grayed out anymore. Other small details in this shot include that if the unit is not a melee attacker, the Range is measured by numbers (see Shaman stats), and there is also a grayed out portrait of a Blademaster up the top right, this probably means that he is dead and awaiting resurrection.

-Chib

The screenshot is provided by Gamespot. - Posted 10-18-2001

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