Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos/Trudging through the Ashes

Mission Objectives
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 * Main Quest - Rescue Acolytes
 * Save 20 Acolytes
 * Arthas must survive

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 * Optional Quest - Find The Graveyard
 * Bring Arthas to the graveyard
 * Arthas must survive

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Starting Units
When this mission starts you will start with 2 Ghouls and Arthas. Since Arthas must survive for the mission, you'll never want to send him without escort.

The Acolytes
Follow the path until you come to your first acolyte approach him and as soon as you get close to him he will revert to his undead form. after rescuing this acolyte move forward to the first clearing in the town be cautious as you enter, if the towns people see Arthas or any of your other units they will call the guards to attack you, your second acolyte is in the center of the square, easily identifiable by being completely red, you don't need to get too close to him to rescue him. note that rescuing the acolytes will not alert the towns people or guards. you may kill the townspeople if you wish but kill the guard first and get the potion of healing in the boxes. after killing the hostiles move to the left side of the square and follow the path up where your third acolyte will be waiting for you along with a single Villagers. This acolyte will give you your only Optional Quest of this mission Find The Graveyard

when you are finished with your third acolyte move forward where you will be approached by a Shade. A Shade is an extremely useful unit. It remains invisible to other units unless affected by a spell or item thus letting you effectively scout the enemy forces. Using your shade head toward the top of the screen to find your fourth acolyte. Use the shade to watch for the passing guards that scout the path and have Arthas move in to free the acolyte and kill the villagers. after rescuing your fourth acolyte move towards the bottom of the screen, using your shade to scout ahead in case of the patrol being nearby, and you will find your fifth acolyte among 2 townspeople you can free this one without having to kill the townspeople but there is another potion of healing among the boxes. after freeing your fifth acolyte head to the left side of the screen, being careful of the barracks being guarded by a knight and footman don't forget about your shade, I would recommend using your shade to find this next acolyte because he is hidden behind 2 other townspeople that can surprise you and call the knight and footman to attack you.

After freeing your sixth acolyte use your shade and mover toward the top of your screen to try and find the secret path to the left of the main gate. Once you find the path be cautious going into the square there are a lot of townspeople around after emerging from the path there is an acolyte right ahead of you making him your seventh acolyte. The indicated box in the picture yields a greater mana potion but be careful opening it as the knights and guards may attack you if you get too close to them. After freeing your seventh acolyte and, if you wished to, getting your greater mana potion move towards the top of the screen using the path on your left, make sure to wait for the townspearson moving in between the 2 groups of villagers, and on the left side there is your eighth acolyte hiding in a secluded spotonce you've completed freeing your eighth acolyte move towards the right side of your screen, use your shade to help you if necessary(see told you he was useful), and find the acolyte hiding among the trees for your ninth acolyte. Not too far to the top of your screen from your ninth acolyte is the graveyard that lets you complete your optional quest and gives you a bit of backup if you lost your two ghouls along the way by summoning 3 skeleton warriors and 2 ghouls.

Farther towards the top left side of your screen there is a field and town hall that will be easier to take out and get another two acolytes your tenth is to the top of your screen from the town hall in a field that has 2 villagers in it. to the left of the town hall is your eleventh acolyte but to get to him you'll have to destroy the town hall and kill the peasants that will turn to militia when you get close to them. bandits will come from the upper left of your screen when you get closer to the town hall that will attack the town hall and militia you can use them to weaken the forces present and then kill them once the militia is defeated. once finished with the town hall head to the left of your screen following a path where you will find your twelfth acolyte with a female villager. after rescuing the twelfth acolyte head towards the top of your screen where you will find a bandit camp and a captured acolyte that you can free there is a potion of healing and spider ring dropped by two of the bandits once defeated free your thirteenth acolyte. once your done head back to the gate you passed heading toward the field where you found your tenth acolyte and have all of your units attack it. once you destroy the gates you will see acolyte fourteen being attacked by 2 footmen and needs to be saved. One of the footmen drops a potion of healing

once done killing the footmen head towards the left of the screen until you see some fenced in sheep. There is an acolyte mixed in with the sheep and you simply have to walk toward the fence to free him making him your fifteenth freed acolyte. head toward the bottom of your screen and you will see your sixteenth acolyte accompanied by two villagers that can be scared off with a death coil it will attract a knight from further down but if you stay away from where your acolyte is after around 15 seconds the knight will move away and you can rescue your acolyte. head back up toward the fence and keep going left but keep close to the houses on the bottom unless you wish to kill the 2 villagers but regardless of whither you kill them or not lure the 2 footmen. after killing the 2 foot men head toward the bottom of your screen and then make a left turn and you will see 2 female villagers and your seventeenth acolyte. after freeing your seventeenth acolyte move to the left of the screen but be cautious of the 3 male villagers between you and your next acolyte after scaring them off, killing them or just sneaking past them keep moving left until you can see him in the little clearing between the trees and free your eighteenth acolyte. for your final two acolytes journey towards the top of your screen until you see 2 footmen and a captain guarding 4 acolytes amongst some cages dispatch the footmen and captain and save your last acolytes to finish the mission