Can’t have God-Emperor Anduin be seen as disrespectful. Might tarnish his pedestal and dirty his high horse.
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It was after Saurfang challenged Sylvanas.
“Brother you can not win”
“I set you on this path”
They knew that Saurfang will probably die.
“Walk with me the rest of the way” was literal but also metaphorical.
Cary my body as we show in the cinematic but also walk the path towards peace.
Also can’t let that precious resource known as Human Pontential go to waste. There must always be a human to moralize to those pesky beast races after all
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Nah, Anduin doesn’t understand anything but peace. He didn’t need a reminder on how to be a doormat.
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Kind of like when he threw away those kaldorei and worgen lives at the battle of daz’alor. God King Anduin can never be seen as making anything less than gloriously right decisions, Even if it costs others their lives
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Maybe but he lead the siege of Lordaeron. The casualties there were heavy.
Don’t underestimate him. “You call for peace when it suits you litle lion”
And got all surprised Pikachu face when the Horde deployed Blight. He knows peace, he is bad at everything else.
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Only because he underestimated Sylvanas and actually thought she would fight a fair war. The amount of idiotic decisions he made at Lordaeron would have cost anyone else their job.
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I agree he is still green.
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Incidentally, Anduin doesn’t do this during his part of the speech. He says:
Anduin: When the Alliance and Horde marched on Ahn’Qiraj, it was Saurfang who valiantly commanded our combined forces.
Anduin: today, his courage saved thousands of lives… on both sides of the battle.
Anduin: His sacrifice will never be forgotten.
Which is essentially just a truncated version of Saurfangs Wowpedia page. I guess if you want to split hairs you can point to the use of the word “valiant” but that was in relation to Ahn’Qiraj war specifically. Which I’d certainly argue fit his actions at that point. If you’re looking for the part of the speech where moralizing happens:
Thrall: Varok Saurfang
Thrall: Son of Koruk
Thrall: Supreme Commander of the Might of Kalimdor
Thrall: High Overload of the Horde.
Thrall: He led the charge against the Lich King. He defended our world from the Legion.
Thrall: Saurfang inspired all of us to strive for true honor. And his legacy will live on in our deeds.
It’s from big green alone.
https://www.wowhead.com/news=295286/war-campaign-saurfang-loyalist-and-alliance-finale-spoilers
Point is, why does it have to be Anduin? There are people in the horde who knew saurfang so much better.
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Because Anduin has the right to be there. He risked his forces and his faction to put faith in Saurfangs plan and it paid off. The least he can do is be there at the end to pay his respects and to show that the hostilities are over in a clear, visual way.
Aye this comes back to Blizzard treating it’s characters like set pieces to get the story going how they want.
Horde goes along with Sylvanas despite having gone through corrupt leader like… 3 to 4 times before. Gets used by a leader to support their personal goal not realizing they are used when they screw up spectacularly. You’d think the horde would go 
maybe we shouldn’t have the person resurrecting our own goes against our ancestral culture as our leader. Ignore that there are characters that can lead a war effort of preservation cough Saurfang cough
Meanwhile the entire Alliance forgets that Sylvanas uses blight in all her conflict where she has the Royal Apothecary Society ready to go and look incredibly out of character stupid because the writers really really wanted Anduin and Sylvanas to have a #faceoff moment. I don’t know how anyone can argue in good faith for anything when this is what we’re given. And a portion of the userbase ends up arguing that the horde is bad because they went with Sylvanas but when the Alliance suffers from bad writing it shouldn’t be considered canon. No double standards there
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And gained nothing from it they didn’t already own. Besides it’s not about winning the battle it’s about winning the war, which they didn’t do.
Because the Horde combined would have steamrolled Stormwind apparently, which is why when half the Horde worked with the Alliance it was a coin toss whether they’d win.
I don’t think you played the same expansion as the rest of us…just saying.
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No. The lowest point was SoO. The Alliance had effectivly defeated us, standing in our city and making threats against our leaders and got away with it. Was a bad day to be Horde back then. Vol’jin didn’t even respond to Varian about the threat to kill us all. True moment of weakness and I felt ashamed for it.
When the Alliance is ready to attack Sylvanas with the Horde rebels, Anduin speaks as if they are one battle away from defeat.
He doesn’t know how bad it is inside of Orgrimmar either. I think the game was trying to go for an implied mutually-assured destruction if either side didn’t have a decisive victory, although way more emphasis is placed on the alliance side since that’s the one with the hi-def cutscene saying it.
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The Alliance troops at Orgrimmar were the only ones they could spare for the assault. Anduin was banking on Saurfang able to do something to spare the coming bloodshed.
They still had enough to defend Alliance territories and a few extra units but that was probably it. They were worn out like the Horde. They just did not have enough for prolonged offensives.
mutually assured destruction would been better than this piece of crap.
at least we could rebuild both factions after theyre completely obliterated.
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