u/Karmondia

I love the Prequel era. I love the story, the world, the characters, everything. The Grand Army of the Republic, the clones were always special to me. Sure, they looked really cool, and the entire concept was interesting, but the best part of the clones story was the moral dilemma of Order 66. Before the Clone Wars show, the clones had free will and turned on the Jedi because they were given an order by their superiors, not because a magical mind control chip took over their minds.

In Republic Commando, Delta squad leaves Sev behind, because they were given an order to leave the area immediately. Did they feel guilt? Yes. But an order is an order. In Battlefront 2 (2005), the clone veteran says "It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, and what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." It is SO MUCH more powerful than the "Aaaghhh, my head! I... good soldiers follow orders." bs that they retconned into the story, to simplify the conflict.

In the Republic Commando books, it was so interesting to see Order 66 from Omega Squad's perspective. You learn there were other contingency orders: "We've got a hundred and fifty contingency rules, everything from arresting the Chancellor if he goes gaga to reducing key allied worlds to slag if they switch sides…". Most of the clones, and the general public did believe the jedi were traitors, because all they saw was a cleverly edited security footage of Mace Windu and the other jedi, trying to "assassinate" Palpatine. Those who didn't believe it were either afraid of disobeying their orders, in fear of getting branded as a traitor themselves, or were powerless to help.

The mind control chip, in my opinion, cheapens the impact of Order 66. The clones who disobeyed were heroes because they were brave enough to leave the only life they knew for their Jedi friends. With the mind control chips, I feel like the thought process was something like: "The clones are good guys, they can't be evil! Sooo... uhh... they were like... mind controlled, and they aren't at fault at all! See guys, we can keep selling action figures of the clones to little children, because we aren't selling soldiers who committed war crimes while they were following the orders of a dictatorship, we are selling innocent warriors who got mind controlled... but if you take out the evil chip, they are still good!"

It was a cowardly oversimplification of the tragedy that was Order 66, and makes the clones less engaging characters because they had no choice in the matter, those who defected only did because their chip got removed.

Tldr: The inhibitor chips rob the clones of their agency, and strip the story of any nuance.

A Traditional Warcraft 3 Campaign (Building bases, gathering resources, commanding armies)

or

an RPG-style Campaign (like the Rexxar campaign, focused on heroes and exploration)?