

Installing Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne You can use this desktop shortcut, the one added to your start menu, or the autorun screen to run the game. This creates a shortcut as well as an extra. When it asks you whether you want to create a desktop shortcut, click “Yes”. Installing and playing Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos on Linux Kubuntu 20.04 LTS Accept the License Agreement to continue.From here on, installing Warcraft III is just the same as on Windows. cd to it in a terminal, then run wine install.exe. Then, run wine install.exe: Click the URL in Dolphin to find the location where the CD has been mounted. Make sure you already have WINE installed by running:Įxpand the “Warcraft III” device and click “Open with File Manager”.įrom the file manager application that opened, you can click the URL to find out the location where the CD has been mounted. We’ll be using WINE, so the steps are going to be pretty much the same as “ Running Legacy Windows Programs on Linux with WINE“, although this will be tailored for Warcraft III. I won’t be covering the recent remaster, Warcraft III: Reforged. In this article, I’ll show how to set up the original Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne on Linux, assuming you have the original CDs. In the case of Warcraft III, only the cinematics don’t seem to work on Linux (more on this further below). Over the past week, I’ve played through the Bonus (Orc) Campaign of the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne expansion… on Linux! It’s both surprising and delightful how many games that could previously run only on Windows can nowadays be run on Linux with little trouble, especially since Windows 10 is no longer able to run some of those older games.

Late-game, it simply protects them from being killed quickly by more powerful and advanced units.The campaign selection screen in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne This makes them powerful for creeping against camps that have mainly pierce and magic damage, as they will be able to take the incoming hits surprisingly well. When on the ground and night falls, Archers benefit from Elune's Grace, reducing the damage taken from piercing attacks by 65% and spells/magic damage by 80%. Generally, Archers should be mounted on Hippogryphs, giving them more health and turning into an aerial unit to protect them from ground attacks. Archers as a whole are fairly weak in team matches, because large numbers and collision size do not work well for allied units. The basic ranged unit of the Night Elves, Archers are fairly popular mainly due to their cheap cost allowing them to be easily massed.
