I’m not a sailor, but I don’t think WC3 bothered showing a dock when Arthas left Tirisfal from the North Coast. Sylvanas and her forces probably went the same way.
As for the Forsaken navy I need to find the source, but I remember something about them dredging up shipwrecks.
At any rate Tirisfal has always had an airport. I don’t know how zeppelins would handle the weight of a lumber shipment, but they could use some of it up building a big crane to skip the stairs.
That said I’m pretty sure EPL wood is unusable mush that has more in common with fungus, WPL wood would be protected by the Argents and the Cenarion Circle if not the Alliance, and Silverpine was just all but completely taken by the latter.
But I don’t want the orcs to have Lordaeronian lumber anyway. Sylvanas made the Forsaken live in ugly Monster High toys for 12 years because they were supposed to be more structurally sound, and it turned out not to matter once the Alliance actually paid them real attention. They need their lumber to rebuild Gallow’s End Tavern and Brill Town Hall now. If Orgrimmar wants to burn 300 decorative bonfires every single day the answer is Warsong Gulch.
Better yet, since Thrall’s ego is out of the picture and half the Horde leadership is elves whose magical power level should embarrass Jaina, just make Durotar habitable like she once offered to do.
I mean realistically yeah, the Druids and Shamans would have worked something out, but this is Blizzard forcing the issue as a point of contention.
I’d say it’s unrealistic for a massive world power to have issues with trivial raw resources, but then again the USSR at points literally relied on their sworn enemy (The US) for food imports at a couple points of time.
Faithful, enlightened, ambitious Lumberjacks…In but a single battle-ground; a few mere swipes of the flag, we have gathered a sacrifice of lumber that will be made legend.
We harvest. We fell. It is mindless forestry; this universe is mindless!!
Kinda unsure why druids don’t just grow more trees in Stonetalon or take advantage of that Wailing Cavern situation for wood rather than piss off the neighbors.
I think the lumber thing is purely based on Wisp magic and not actually something most druids can just do on an industrial scale. I do think it’d make sense if the Horde druids went and re-foliated Durotar to bring it back to what it was before Proudmoore burned down the jungle.
I just don’t get why/how its still an issue. Horde has more forests available now than they did in Cata, there’s not an ongoing ecological cataclysm happening, and they’re not remodelling Org again.
A couple of bonfires do not require that much wood, and “hey, please make the desert nights a bit more livable” seems like the kind of thing shamans could easily convince fire elements to help with. Idk.
Ironically, if they’d just joined the Horde in the first place, their ability to produce unlimited free lumber would have removed any need to kill elves.
Swamp wood is all damp. It’s not good for construction.
Until you realize those trees are part of the balance of Mulgore and simply tearing it all up will leave an ecological disaster in its wake. Sort of like what the Horde is doing to Ashenvale.
PS. The night elves dont all live in trees either. Well at least those outside of Darnassus.
Well… the lumber thing has always felt contrived to me to force conflict. The horde has druids, why dont they just go grow some trees. or hey, they could build a good trade port in Lordaeron and export lumber. They have it coming out of their ears in the eastern kingdoms and no one is going to try to murder you for stealing their resources when you chop it down.
Even that aside. I gotta say the Horde seems kind of terrible at sustainability. They just clear cut forests, strip mine mountains, etc… It makes one wonder if Yrel had a point that the Orcs had destroyed AU Draenor through their reckless use of technology and extraction of resources to fuel it.
