Just finished the prologue. Should I bother with the Realms of Chaos campaign?

[Very serious person]

I heard its horrible, but I enjoyed the story in the prologue. I could give it a go and find out myself, but I don't want to spend a hundred turns in a campaign to then find out it has some issues that make it boring.

What are the opinions of more seasoned players? Is that campaign worth a short or should I just go ahead and start an inmortal empires campaign?

[Zeek]

It's not nearly as bad and annoying now as it was at launch, so you might be hearing things that are simply outdated.

I'd recommend playing it atleast once with your favorite faction. The story is meh, but I had fun with it. The story doesn't change with factions, you just get a different ending cutscene (and ofc a different campaign)

[XŦĦ§¥]

Definitely not horrible, Realm of chaos is a narrated campaign with specific set of objective(short victory), which does not prevent you from ignoring it all & conquering a certain portion of the map to attain a Long-Victory.

Keep in mind, if you play any of the initial/original WH3 races(Kislev/Cathay/Ogres/Daemon/Nurgle/Slaannesh/Khorne/Tzeentch), the short victory includes a race between factions, so you can't sit on your butt 😏

Immortal empire is nothing more than a MASSIVE sand-box.

[jtordoff]

Originally posted by Very serious person:

I heard its horrible, but I enjoyed the story in the prologue. I could give it a go and find out myself, but I don't want to spend a hundred turns in a campaign to then find out it has some issues that make it boring.

What are the opinions of more seasoned players? Is that campaign worth a short or should I just go ahead and start an inmortal empires campaign?

I played it a couple of times with a couple of factions on "easy/easy" just to take in the narrative and learn all the mechanics, it's ok.

[Lunos]

It's not horrible by any means. It's definitely overshadowed by how much fun Immortal Empires is but if you're looking for a more tailored, narrative driven and focused experience then you will probably like RoC. Personally I don't like being constrained by time limits so that is why I don't play it anymore. If you've played the Vortex campaign in 2, it's similar to that vs Mortal Empires.

[Amphibian Artillery]

Play as either Tzarina Katarin or Kostalytn since in order to unlock Boris Ursus you have to beat a quest battle that is exclusive to those 2 in RoC only. Also I believe you have to beat the RoC campaign once to unlock Be'lakor as a playable faction in IE. So playing as base Kislev will knock out 2 birds with 1 stone.

[Ashley]

I wouldn't personally say it's horrible. Just painfully mid.

[Aleera]

I say, atleast try it once.

If you find it not to your liking, quit the campaign and play the combined map.

[Coldhands]

I liked Vortex more, but Realms of Chaos is alright.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Coldhands:

I liked Vortex more, but Realms of Chaos is alright.

Huh, I remember much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the WH2 forums about the Vortex campaign.

[Coldhands]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Coldhands:

I liked Vortex more, but Realms of Chaos is alright.

Huh, I remember much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the WH2 forums about the Vortex campaign.

Total War fans have a habit of doing that whenever a campaign give you objectives more complex than, 'Paint map'.

I quite like having a little more story in my Total Warhammer, I think it makes for a more compelling game. Plus, the shorter victory conditions are more reasonably achievable.
Mortal/Immortal Empires are great too, but I've played Vortex/Realms of Chaos as much or more often.

[Velber]

only if you want to

[BiteSizeCenter]

It's worth at least one playthrough just to see what it's all about. I didn't totally hate it tbh, but once they dropped IE my interest in RoC pretty much vanished.

[Velber]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Coldhands:

I liked Vortex more, but Realms of Chaos is alright.

Huh, I remember much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the WH2 forums about the Vortex campaign.

yea when it first came out because people didnt like the ritual stuff
after tomb kings and vampire coasts were added people stopped complaining as much

[Aleera]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Coldhands:

I liked Vortex more, but Realms of Chaos is alright.

Huh, I remember much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the WH2 forums about the Vortex campaign.

You generally could ignore the ritual. You couldn't ignore the soul race until they added changes.

[Mr.Hmm]

Realm of Chaos campaign was bad when it was released but now its much better.