What DLC to get??

[PlanetHunter]

I just bought Warhammer 3 for the first time coming from a historical player. The huge laundry list of DLC was shocking to me. My question is what DLC has the most value for the money.

[Abacus]

try to focus on what you want to play. Having all the DLC all at once will mean there is a lot of waiting. Unless you start like 20 campaigns and play them all at once, lol.

everything is already in the game for the AI.

So play a little to see what appeals to you, or get DLC for the factions you are most interested.

Getting the base games can be good, but isn't necessary. If anything it's like buying the WH1 or 2 is like a "starter pack" for a trading card game. You get the "starter" army, but getting a DLC instead, will give the army AND added units.

Check out the DLC after you have played a bit to get more context of what it really adds.

[serjento]

1.the one you are going to play
2.you don't need every dlc
3.look up reviews

[Mei]

Warhammer 1 and 2 are probably the most value. Other than that, just focus on which faction and lord you want to play as. No point getting all the Lizardman DLC if you don't like playing them.

[Amphibian Artillery]

The one DLC that makes all of the Daemonic Factions better to play is Champions of Chaos. If you enjoy any of them (Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh) I would highly recommend it plus Be'lakor the IE exclusive lord will get a lot more units to play with on top of a new narrative campaign and 4 additional WoCs Lords.

[BiteSizeCenter]

That answer is going to largely depend on what you as a player enjoy. In terms of value for dollar I'd say that Champions of Chaos is probably up there, but again it's going to come down to whether you enjoy playing those races or not.

[StrangestEcho]

WH1 and WH2 base games and DLC work as content packs for WH3. They are generally considered better value, and they go on sale for 50% off several times a year. WH3 DLC is more expensive and not as heavily discounted on sales.

Every race has it's own unique campaign mechanics, units and playstyle. You may love one race and hate another. You have to choose based on what races interest you personally.

Empire, High Elves and Cathay are popular races. Since you own WH3 you can play a campaign as Cathay and then decide if you want the additional content.

It's important to remember that the 'content complete' game has hundreds if not thousands of hours worth of content.

[FizzMan]

Champions of Chaos gives you a whopping amount of new units and lords to use with the 4 base game chaos factions, and access to 8 Lords which is the most for any DLC that isn't a base game addon.

Shadows of Change gives you access to The Changelings magnificently fun and diverse campaign with many different ways of approaching it, Yuan Bo's commandments which lets you pull of lots of fun strats and Ostankya's Curses and Hexes which are great to expierment with. They are also all base WH3 factions that don't have any other DLC released for them at the moment so you don't have to worry about missing out :^) (Except Tzeentch which are just the WoC variants)
This DLC also includes legendary hereos for each faction, and includes 5 instead of 3 units for each faction as was typical up until Shadows of Change.

WH1 gives you access to The Empire and The Dwarves which are extremly powerful and really fun right now after having just received a rework and new updates even without their DLC, greenskins have Waaghs and Vampire Counts can insta recruit late game units depending on if they are near any giant piles of corpses from "legendary" battles.

There is no "Most value for the money" as everyone has more fun with other factions then others, and this is all very subjective.

There is probably the most FLC for the WH1 factions, so you might get the most bang for you buck buying WH1 for this game.

[SonofProsperoXV]

If you can it might be worth it to pick up the other two games during the skulls sale. They'll give you the most for the money your paying. Other than that (like other people have said) it really just depends on what race you want to play. I think the ones that are most widely liked would be Tomb Kings, The Prophet and the Warlock (They should really just rename it to The Warlock), Silence and the Fury and Twisted and Twilight will both unlock whole races for you if you don't already own their race pack.

[Funky Monk]

OP it's best you try the base game first, play a Immortal Empires campaign. Then if you like a certain faction you played or if anothe faction catches your eye then buy DLC for that.

Now if I were to recommend a campaign and DLC, I'd say try a Be'lakor campaign and if you like him, buy the Warriors of Chaos DLC (Who adds Archaon, Sigvald and Kholek) and Champions of Chaos DLC (Adds Azazel, Valkia, Festus and Vilitch)


But if you are a newcomer then I'd say try a Cathay campaign (Zhao Ming was by far my easiest experience, more noob friendly)

You could also buy WH1 if you want to play the Empire, Dwarfs, Greenskins, Vampire Counts
or
WH2 for High Elves, Dark Elves, Lizardmen and Skaven (Tho Skaven are incomplete without a particular DLC)

These factions do transfer to Warhammer 3 when you own those games, tho lets say you just want to play High Elves, then all you need to do is buy a Lord Pack DLC that has High Elves, you get access to their FLCs as well.