The Dark Star that fell from the sky not only inflicted enormous casualties on the Horde, but also brought their offensive against Shattrath to an abrupt halt.
The Orcs who had been so full of heroic spirit before attacking Shattrath were now as bedraggled as they could be.
But the Dark Star's damage to the Orcs was not limited to the casualties themselves.
More than ten thousand elite warriors had died on the spot, while over twenty thousand more had lost their combat capability to varying degrees. Combined with the casualties suffered beneath Shattrath's walls, Orcish losses in this war had nearly reached fifty thousand.
One had to know that, although Orcs were spread across Draenor, their total population was no more than a million. Even if every able-bodied person was considered a soldier, most Orcs were still the elderly, the weak, women, children, or ordinary laborers. Just over a third of the population was capable of fighting, and far fewer could be called elite. Thus, this anticlimactic siege had truly dealt the Orcs a severe blow.
Yet compared to the psychological blow, the physical losses were almost negligible.
Unlike the human kingdoms of Azeroth, Orcish civilization was far more primitive. If Azeroth's humans were in the age of feudal kingdoms, then the Orcs were still in the age of clans and slavery. Compared to an agricultural civilization, they more closely resembled barbaric nomadic peoples.
This caused the Orcish Horde's level of governance and organization to fall far below that of humans and Draenei. The entire Horde was merely a loose confederation.
Although Warchief Blackhand had established the foundation of his rule through formidable force, with the Shadow Council assisting him from the sidelines, such rule still lacked sufficient prestige.
In the past, the various Orcish clans had also formed