Southern Barrens warfront
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The subject of this article or section did not make it out of the alpha stages of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth.
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An unnamed Southern Barrens warfront was experimented upon by Blizzard Entertainment for the release of Battle for Azeroth. It was a very early internal prototype, which served as a test bed before any of the new areas were created.[1] It would have involved the Alliance attacking the Great Gate to Mulgore,[2] and many unused NPC IDs were added for it, but it was never completed.
Story-wise, despite the warfront not being released, it seems the Alliance still tried to reestablish Fort Triumph[3] along Bael Modan.[4][5][6] The Great Gate was still besieged by the Alliance.[7]
Commanders[]
It is unknown which commanders would have appeared.
Units[]
The following Fort Triumph/Northwatch Expeditionary Unit soldiers were added in patch 8.0.1 but never used, being presumably intended to appear in the warfront:
- Fallen Triumph War Gryphon
- Injured Triumph Vanguard
- Northwatch Artillery
- Northwatch Cannon
- Northwatch Cannoneer
- Northwatch Defender
- Northwatch Dockworker
- Northwatch Gryphon Rider
- Northwatch Guard
- Northwatch Lookout
- Northwatch Messenger
- Northwatch Rifleman
- Northwatch Siege Engineer
- Triumph Lookout
- Overgrowth Woodworker
The Horde would have presumably deployed tauren and Desolation Hold soldiers, such as Desolation Guards, Desolation Raiders, Desolation Wind Riders, Desolation Champions, Northwatch Assassins, and Northwatch Ambushers.
Items[]
Notes[]
- For a time even after release, the warfront music could be heard while in the Southern Barrens, a remnant of the experimentation on making the warfront.