# War1gus: a Stratagus reimplementation of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans

> War1gus reimplements Warcraft: Orcs & Humans for the Stratagus engine using graphics and sounds extracted from the user’s original game. Its scripts and campaigns support modern mouse controls, larger unit selections, additional multiplayer factions and a map editor.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Wargus/war1gus>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Wargus/war1gus/blob/8ec75764c7b4706a4405004438e810c050228b94/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/war1gus-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/war1gus-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/war1gus-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires original Warcraft game data for its graphics and sounds.
- **Limits:** The built-in data extractor is not working correctly on macOS; the project points to a third-party extraction script.
- **License:** GPL-2.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Wargus/war1gus/blob/8ec75764c7b4706a4405004438e810c050228b94/README.md>

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