According to art director Samwise Didier, "We didn't want to be Lord of the Rings or standard D&D fantasy. This made the units easier to read from the top-down camera, and also made everything feel bigger and more heroic. The results were received negatively among the development team, so the colors were made simpler, the shading was decreased, flat colors were added, and characters were scaled up and made bigger and bulkier. The game originally utilized a realistic art style, which made everything in the game much smaller.
As such, units were referred to as your hero's party. Each unit had a special ability and the number of units you could control varied depending on the "Leadership" stat of your hero, for example if your hero had a Leadership of 8 you could control 8 units. Military units were supposed to be much more micromanaged: you were supposed to use your troll headhunters' tracking ability to find enemies, then root them with your raiders' nets, then use the tauren to initiate combat with a bullrush that stunned, and then finally send your orc grunts with their berserker ability that did high DPS. Rob Pardo had described it as similar to the Sacrifice game, except with multiple heroes. In this original design, there was no Fog of War but you couldn't freely move the camera, it could only jump between your heroes. It had six planned races and a slated release date of "late 2000". It had smaller, potent parties of heroes and troops in a dynamic world of living towns, wandering monsters, characters and quests, with players simultaneously having to devise strategies to defeat their enemies. The game originally started as a "Role-Playing Strategy" experience: a strategy game set heavily within a role-playing environment. When Mike Morhaime pulled the trigger on that concept and wanted the game to come back to its RTS roots, those developers moved away to create the Guild Wars franchise instead. The developers who left had the concept of a client-server, online and very instanced game, with an over-the-shoulder camera and full 3D. Eventually, the game morphed into a more traditional RTS, but retained the element of heroes, after a change of team leads halfway through development. It was a squad-based tactical combat game, thus departing from the type of traditional RTS games that Blizzard had already released earlier for both the Warcraft and StarCraft universes. Originally, Warcraft III started out as a game called Heroes of Warcraft. In the case of the latter, it was the origin of the hero and RPG elements that would be retained in the final version of Warcraft III. In the case of the former, this took the form of bringing Thrall over.
Warcraft III has roots in two cancelled Warcraft games- Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, and Warcraft Legends. Role-Playing Strategy to Real-Time Strategy 1 Role-Playing Strategy to Real-Time Strategy.
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