Is the Collection worth it?

[Big Ron]

I've enjoyed a few of the previous Total War games and have few mates playing WH3 that I'd love to join.

But as someone who doesn't own any of the other Warhammer total wars should I buy the WH3 collection or just base game?

[Butcher]

If you got money for entire collection then why not? Unless you want to try base game first of course.

[Enelith]

Considering you will probably change your mind and will want to try X factions, better u get the collection (from which you'll can expand even more afterwards...)

[Eldi]

Ask your mates?

[Lepakko]

Depends how you often like to play your Total War games. If you like to play just few favorite factions. Then it more risky buy big collection. But if you often like to try every factions. You get lots of play time on each. Then collection would make sense.

[LKAI]

I'd go with base game, if you like it there will be other sales to try dlcs and warhammer total war differs from the others. Also if one friend owns the dlcs and hosts I think you can try them out in multiplayer?

[Shield]

IMO nah, the collection can wait, you'll get the most bang for your buck (and saved money) copping the mainline games/the the trilogy bundle. They're $60 a piece off sale, $15 on sale. At the least they're giant race packs for third game's immortal empires, at most they're 3 campaigns across 3 games. Vortex, RoC, etc.

[Urmel]

you should only buy wh 1 + wh 2 to play most main-factions + free big main campaign DLC called whatever.

[Cenwalh]

Originally posted by owlBear:

IMO nah, the collection can wait, you'll get the most bang for your buck (and saved money) copping the mainline games/the the trilogy bundle. They're $60 a piece off sale, $15 on sale. At the least they're giant race packs for third game's immortal empires, at most they're 3 campaigns across 3 games. Vortex, RoC, etc.

Agree with this. The base games will get you more factions to play, in the sense that the variation between gameplay styles will be larger. It's also the most value per $$ and you won't get prices this low anytime soon.

If you don't want to spend even that much, I recommend getting WH3 base only and start your journey there. There's a lot of different things when compared to previous TW games and you'll need to cast aside some presuppositions and previous experience.

[Zé Bonitinho]

I cant recommend investing that much money into WH while the AI is utterly useless, unless you want it for MP mostly.

[Pönnukaka]

Originally posted by Avro 👹:

I've enjoyed a few of the previous Total War games and have few mates playing WH3 that I'd love to join.

But as someone who doesn't own any of the other Warhammer total wars should I buy the WH3 collection or just base game?

Depends. If you will like this game and enjoy it for long hours, if you can find factions that you enjoy the experience and mechanics, so you will buy their DLC in future - yes. Especially since you can get all base games in a bundle with -85% discount. Pretty good deal if you will enjoy Total War + magic + monsters in obvious fantasy setting.

[JustSmile]

Originally posted by Avro 👹:

I've enjoyed a few of the previous Total War games and have few mates playing WH3 that I'd love to join.

But as someone who doesn't own any of the other Warhammer total wars should I buy the WH3 collection or just base game?

Warhammer is a very different Total War to historic ones. I think you can imagine the impact spells, massive monsters, or airborne bombardment has on how viable certain strategies are in battle. It is very fun, though. Definitely not worth buying EVERYTHING though, you'll never play most of factions and lords.

[MadArtillery]

I think it's highly dependant on what factions you want to play.