What we are being told is very different than what actually happens.
Villainbats are not really the point when it comes to military achievements.
And finally a good army general uses strategy. If commander is throwing his soldiers at an impregnable gate rather than flanking from behind he isn’t demonstrating strength but just stupidity.
I wouldn’t say they need to be the masters of everything but the one or two enchanted forests they have dominion over? Yes.
Honestly Horde should have a huge fist pump moment when they marched through it with relatively minor losses that still allowed them to wage a global war after it.
Character redemption =/= Faction redemption.
And even then the player is not really THAT guilty compared to the rest. They are just a passenger along for the ride.
I’d say it’s a lot closer than you think Droite, if the Night elven military is present at it’s full force, including ancients and wild gods. I’m not saying they could beat the Horde anywhere. But in their own lands, i’d say they have enough advantages to atleast make it costly enough where the Horde wouldn’t want to.
I believe droits point was the horde didn’t win anything in the fourth war, every battlefront was a loss. Every advantage the horde gained with the zandalari fleet was lost quick, the only victory being that the horde barely took darkshore and that was because of some lucky smugglers route through the mountains’.
Same thing for the Alliance really.
This tug of war of territories didn’t achieve anything for Alliance either.
At least the Horde can point towards the extra story content and faction growth as a win if they liked it. But otherwise Alliance ended up where they used to be minus the NEs and another entry in their book of grudges.