d. Chapter four: The Cult of the Damned (ROCWH4)

After taking control, train approximately 7 additional peasants. Assign 5 to gold and 4-5 to lumber.

Immediately start building farms with one peasant. Use shift command to queue multiple farms if needed, but ensure sufficient resources before starting construction.

Construct a lumber mill in the grove to the left of the right entrance at the bottom of your base.

Defend against the initial attack, focusing fire on necromancers. Use Jaina's Water Elemental and cast Blizzard to deal with skeleton warriors and ghouls.

Continue building farms until you have 4 or 5. Once the lumber mill is built, research improved masonry. Move the lumber-gathering peasant to harvest near the lumber mill.

Once you have sufficient resources, upgrade your Town Hall to a Keep.

Build defensive towers. Attacks will only come from the north path. Build 10 scout towers in two rows of five, positioned north to south, centered between the north and south treeline, just above where the forest on the left ends, to cover (press the cover button to crouch behind walls or objects) attacks from the west.

Keep your current units in front of the towers until defenses are established. Upgrade scout towers to watch towers as they are constructed.

Defend with all units if attacked before more than 1 or 2 towers are up. Keep the mortar team behind the towers and set to hold position.

Once all towers are building, research improved lumber harvesting from the lumber mill. Start building a blacksmith.

When resources allow, construct an Arcane Sanctum and then a Workshop. Simultaneously, have another peasant build farms until you reach at least 70 food supply.

Once the blacksmith is built, research all available upgrades, including improved defense for footmen and long rifles for riflemen.

After all 10 towers are constructed, position Arthas and Jaina in front, with other units behind them. This conserves resources by protecting weaker units and facilitates Jaina's Blizzard spell. Use Jaina's Water Elemental spell as well.

Assign one peasant to auto-repair towers, and have them harvest lumber between attacks, pulling them back when attacked.

After the Arcane Sanctum is built, research Adept Training for priests.

Once upgrades are in progress, begin training your army: approximately 7 footmen, 7 riflemen, 3-4 priests, and 3 mortar teams (adjusting for any starting units lost). If many units were lost, keep unit supply at 40 or less until the low gold mine warning.

Ensure 6 peasants are on the gold mine and check for idle peasants.

For the next attack, likely involving necromancers, use Jaina's Blizzard spell. Keep Jaina and Thrall near the defensive towers for support.

Continue training units as resources allow. Level up Arthas's Holy Light and Jaina's Blizzard. Ensure you have 70 food supply by building more farms if necessary.

With your army assembled (around 65 food), and your gold mine likely collapsing soon, ensure you have at least 450 gold saved. This is the cost to build a new Town Hall to access the eastern gold mine if needed.

Set up attack groups: Group 1 (Arthas, Jaina, footmen), Group 2 (Arthas, riflemen, priests), Group 3 (mortar teams).

Send Group 1 in first, followed by Group 2, with Group 3 supporting from the rear.

Warning: SAVE YOUR GAME before initiating the attack.