Does the base game have a good amount of content?

[💎 Andy 💎]

Or do you really need to buy the Oceania, or European expansion to get into the game.

Than you for any help.

[marttini7]

You can learn about expansions even without having them. Just look at the tutorial: you can select which "scope"/area of knowledge you'd like to dive into -- including the tags for expansions (you being at the "free" modality yet, doesn't matter).
A good way to start online as an amateur is choosing 'Automa', because the 'online Automa' has all expansions by default, whereas the 'offline Automa' will not (in the case you don't own those).
If people knew that Automa lets you play "alone" with yourself, skipping turns very quickly, they would never click to "start 5 min. game" (when online) instantly! 🙄

[Machin Shin]

IMO its better start with only the base game otherwise you have more mechanics and it's harder to learn, The base game has near 200(Bird) cards and that's massive... you then get around 160 more with both expansions, personally mostly only play with base and Europe because I'm no big fan of the nectar mechanics from Oceana, and someone who starts should learn the game without it.
I'm sure someone can appreciate the oceana mechanics more if he knows the game without it later

[Petrus Romanus]

I'll echo Machin Shin above and say that you probably want to start out playing the base game. Whilst Wingspan is far from challenging to learn, you can do so and then decide whether the base mechanisms are interesting enough for your taste to build upon with those sweet, sweet 'spanshohs.

There's enough in base to keep you occupied for quite a few games as there is quite a large variety of birds, even if many share or have similar card powers. The game doesn't really change mechanically by buying expansions; it just increases the variety within the base mechanics, if that makes sense?

I'd recommend it!

[💎 Andy 💎]

Thank you guys, I really appreciate the feedback, and reassurance about the amount of content it has, without DLC.

Also the benefit s f getting the base game first.

Brilliant help. 👍🏻

And thank you also marttini7 for the info on online Automa. this was info for me buying it for my niece. But I know she would be playing it single player, offline.
But Again, I really appreciate the suggestion.