This forum is a tribute to the late wc3c.net (also known as Wc3Campaigns) — a Warcraft 3 modding community that ran from roughly 2003 until it quietly went dark in the late 2010s. It is not a revival of the original site, nor is it affiliated with the people who built and ran it. The artwork at the top of every page — the "WC3Campaigns" wordmark, the row of buttons (Home / User CP / Forums / Tutorials / Gallery / Resources / Maps), the deep-green Night Elf gradients, the .w3x / .w3m file-type icons — was authored by the original wc3c.net team and is pulled from the Wayback Machine snapshots. All credit for that visual identity belongs to them.

If you spent any time on the real wc3c.net — uploading a map, picking apart a vJASS tutorial, arguing about triggers, watching Vexorian write something more elegant than what you'd just spent a weekend on — that community is what made the site worth missing. None of that history lives here. The threads, the personalities, the staff title hacks, the rivalries: all of it stayed on the original servers, and most of it is reachable only through the Wayback Machine now.

What lives here is just a forum, set up by Retera on a hobby VPS one Friday evening, vibe-coded end-to-end by Claude Code — the AI assistant wrote every line of the Node.js application backing this page. There is no human-authored codebase underneath it. The footer says "AI-generated" on purpose, not as a brag and not as an apology — just so nobody arrives here thinking a person hand-rolled it. Some readers will feel some resentment about that, and that's reasonable. We mention it up front rather than hide it.

This site exists for a few small reasons:

• To prove that, at the time of this writing, an AI can in fact be asked to rebuild a forum like this from public archives in an evening.
• To give Retera a place to post things that wouldn't fit elsewhere — notably outside the moderation of communities he doesn't run.
• To preserve a little of the aesthetic that a lot of us grew up modding under.

If you're looking for the actual living community around Warsmash (the Warcraft 3 engine reimplementation, which is the project Retera mostly works on these days), you want Hive Workshop. They have moderators, a long-running community, and a much wider audience than this hobby tribute will ever see.

If you're looking for the original wc3c.net itself, the Wayback Machine has it well preserved — start at web.archive.org/web/2014/wc3c.net and follow the breadcrumbs.

Warcraft III is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Neither this site nor Warsmash is affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Blizzard.
wc3c.net and the "Wc3Campaigns" name belong to the original site's authors. We use the visual style here as a tribute and a study of an archived public site; we make no claim on it.
This forum's source code is published under AGPL-3.0 — anyone who modifies and hosts a copy must offer their changes to their users. Original wc3c.net theme assets are not redistributed in that repository; the install script fetches them from the Wayback Machine at deploy time, on the same legal-ish footing as any other archive pull.
This page is the closest thing this site has to credits. If you contributed to wc3c.net and would like an explicit mention or a correction, post in the Announcements forum or PM Retera.