Chronological story play order TWH 1-3 and additional content?

[cool skill]

Leaving out the Empires mode that combines the games. What is the order of play of all three main games and possible expansion content based on chronology of the storyline?

[Zeek]

It's basically Game 3 -> Game 2 -> Game 1 in terms of story

[FinaL]

It's the endtimes. If you really want to have a "storyline" experience, you should play the mini-campaigns of WH1 first, then the mini-campaigns (Lords like Wulfhart etc) of WH2, then the WoC DLC of WH3 mini campaign, then the Vortex campaign of WH2, then the race for the Realm of Chaos campaign of WH3 and at last a Immortal empire campaign of WH3

:D

[FinaL]

Originally posted by Zeek:

It's basically Game 3 -> Game 2 -> Game 1 in terms of story

Not true at all, the disturbance of the vortex is the reason why Ursun is endangered. After the Vortex clinge, all the Daemons come back to the world

[Zeek]

Originally posted by FinaL:

Originally posted by Zeek:

It's basically Game 3 -> Game 2 -> Game 1 in terms of story

Not true at all, the disturbance of the vortex is the reason why Ursun is endangered. After the Vortex clinge, all the Daemons come back to the world

Ok yes that makes sense. I was thinking the other way around; Ursan's roar was the cause for the vortex race, but that doesn't make sense.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Zeek:

Originally posted by FinaL:

Not true at all, the disturbance of the vortex is the reason why Ursun is endangered. After the Vortex clinge, all the Daemons come back to the world

Ok yes that makes sense. I was thinking the other way around; Ursan's roar was the cause for the vortex race, but that doesn't make sense.

Fairly certain that was caused by the failed Skaven going to the moon thing

[mystery]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Fairly certain that was caused by the failed Skaven going to the moon thing

And this is why Skaven are my favorite race. Bunch of mad rats pushing tech, bio & science beyond the limits, all high on warpstone & damning the consequences; even if it dooms the world.

[Ashardalon]

Originally posted by FinaL:

Originally posted by Zeek:

It's basically Game 3 -> Game 2 -> Game 1 in terms of story

Not true at all, the disturbance of the vortex is the reason why Ursun is endangered. After the Vortex clinge, all the Daemons come back to the world

why would demons need to come to the world for a god to get captured in a completely different dimension
gods dont live on the world
the worlds ease of access is irrelevant

also yes skaven caused the vortex thing with a pretend twin tailed comet
not a failure, it was intended to crash back into the earth
the comet didnt actually do anything except make elves and frogs think they had a chance

[SBA77]

Originally posted by Zeek:

It's basically Game 3 -> Game 2 -> Game 1 in terms of story

Also "Empires mode" doesn't have a story whatsoever.

[FinaL]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

why would demons need to come to the world for a god to get captured in a completely different dimension
gods dont live on the world
the worlds ease of access is irrelevant

also yes skaven caused the vortex thing with a pretend twin tailed comet
not a failure, it was intended to crash back into the earth
the comet didnt actually do anything except make elves and frogs think they had a chance

At first: The Vortex soaks the magic out of the Warhammer world. This is the reason why Daemons have a hard time to manifest there (without summoning for example).

Because the Vortex is attacked, the magic can roam freely the world, that results in another Daemonic invasion. That's all canon lore btw.

The Gods are dependent from the mortals - so the world isn't irrelevant (in fact: it's their only goal: To submit their will on the mortals). All the souls-stuff, you know?

Because the Lore is flux in these games, it's most likely not the Skaven (Real Warhammer Endtimes) end for this game. It's more likely that the High Elves/Lizardmen defended the Vortex before Warhammer 3. However, the damage is already done with the battle OVER the vortex: the Daemons could manifest in the world.

Be'Lakor was banished to the Old World as a shadow. Because the Vortex was attacked, magic enhanced his power till he was able to gain a new body. Then he began his plot against the Chaos Gods, attacking Ursun while the Vortex enhanced his power.

When the Vortex stabilized, he wasn't able to finish Ursun (his powerlevel dimished), so he needed other means to consum the God to become a God himself.

Then the story of Warhammer 3 begins.

[Ashardalon]

belakor isnt in the mortal realm
and neither are the gods
the vortex being a buffer between the warp and the mortal world does nothing to the amount of warp in the realm of the gods

its also confirmed that its 321
even if you have a very neat headcannon

[Karl]

Originally posted by FinaL:

Originally posted by Zeek:

It's basically Game 3 -> Game 2 -> Game 1 in terms of story

Not true at all, the disturbance of the vortex is the reason why Ursun is endangered. After the Vortex clinge, all the Daemons come back to the world

What makes you say this? the reason it's 3 - > 2 - > 1 is fairly easy to see because of the advisor story progress.

Technically it's now 3 -> warriors of chaos campaign from 3 (it mentions ursun having been saved) -> 2 -> 1, in one the final end of the advisor can be seen if you play chaos.

[cool skill]

So it's backwards? But somebody said mini-campaigns for TWH1 first? Which are those? Everything seems jumbled up. Is there like a time frame list for each product?

[Ashardalon]

the wood elf and beastmen had storys in their dlc
no idea when those happen

[Karl]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

the wood elf and beastmen had storys in their dlc
no idea when those happen

I remember the beastmen one involved the whole rivalry between boris and khazrak, so that's somewhere earlier at least. Assuming khazrak/boris having lost their eye is already a thing by warhammer 3 then it would be pre warhammer 3 even.