So, I've been playing Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne again for the last couple of weeks. I began my return playing solo games to reacquaint myself with the controls, hotkeys, counters and general flow of the game. Y'know, I wanted to make my errors at the expense of only myself. I then started playing random team (RT) games and finding arranged team (AT) partners. For awhile I pretty much dropped solo games and started playing only team based games, which can quite honestly be quite frustrating, due to whiny team mates or simply not having full control of your side of the battles. So, I decided to try a couple of 1 v 1 games this morning.

I'm glad I did. My second game was one of the most satisfying and entertaining matches I've had in awhile. War 3 players have a tendency to pan out after the first battle if it doesn't fair well, but that didn't happen in this game. There were at times multiple skirmishes across the map, harassing, battles, scouting, counter-scouting, guess-work, countering, massing, mixing, mistakes, brilliance, sieges, hit-and-runs, micro, macro and just about everything I could ask for in an RTS match. Every moment of contact was intense and could go either man's way. In the end, my opponent said "GG" and left before I could respond "GG! :D".

The thing that got me was that both of us made guess-work mistakes, but that's what made it such an interesting game. I thought he was getting air, but he was just getting some wolves to counter what he thought were my mass archers. It's like watching a college game after a professional sports game. The college one is sometimes just more entertaining because there exists a little more error or 'randomness'.

I just wanted to share my excitement for this game, simply because I'm sometimes sceptical of the enjoyment that can be found in anonymous online gaming, but today I thoroughly enjoyed it. If anyone is interested, I do have the replay and you can message me for a version (I doubt anyone will...but just saying).