Realm of Chaos Campaign

[Kharn the Bloody]

Is it worth playing? Can you continue Campaign even after you reach victory conditions? What are the main differences between Realm of Chaos and a standard Total War sandbox?

Just coming from about 18 months of Warhammer TW 2 and have yet to start a TW3 campaign. I wouldn't mind a change of pace with a story line campaign as long as it's not too linear and as long I have the option to continue playing after Victory Conditions are met.

TLDR version: I'd like a long campaign.

Thanks!

[Darklight]

Nobody can really answer the part of it being worth playing or not. There are people going to answer no simply because they don't like it, and people who will answer yes because they enjoy it. The only way you'll actually know yourself is by playing a campaign.

As for being able to continue, I'm pretty sure you can.

[Erik-Ray]

Main differences are the scope and unique campaign mechanics. Realms of Chaos has a line you can follow for victory, you can generally conquer your starting area and fortify while you wait for more portals to the realms, while the sandbox game is more of a total war feature.

You have a limited amount of enemies with lots of "corners" that you don't really need to defend in ROC. Vanilla wise its probably a 90-150 turn campaign to beat I think.

[Basarab Laiota]

i have fun on it if i ignore the objective, entering the realms is hell
festus has a pretty fun start, so does skrag

[Havean]

Is it worth playing?
Yes but only once.

Can you keep playing after the objectives?
Yes

What is the main difference between it and IE?
IE is pure sandbox, you go at your pace where you want for how long you want. RoC is a narrative linear experience where you are chasing after the realms to enter a Chaos God realm and fight his demon champion in a weird tower defence style map.
It has unquie battle maps that are not in IE so for that alone it is worth while.
It also punishes you for expanding as realms pop up in every settlement every 30 turns. Only your legendary Lord can enter these realms so making more armies is pointless.

The campaign map is also bad, it is mostly chaos wasteland and a tiny bit of human land.

Play it once and you have experienced everything it offers.

[RomulanPraetor]

I find the ROC campaign very linear (You can choose the order of the chaos gods realms but you have to do them all), BUT since it was generally disliked, any DLC faction got its own objectives and does not have to do the standard campaign mechanic.

Also the standard ROC mechanic is a race - you have to be the first faction to complete everything.

[Perplex]

ROC is only worth it as Khorne, any other race need to exterminate Khorne ASAP. If Skarbrand get to level 50 and is about to win he is super hard to stop. Not impossible but it is a really bad time.

[MadArtillery]

It can be fun. You can keep playing after if you want pretty sure though I don't. I do like that it has some interesting options like the Slaanesh deals being incredibly worth it especially if you go early. You can make some pretty interesting decisions that can be quite long reaching though I think they went a bit overboard with how short the campaigns are, not much time between rifts popping up which can get annoying making defending territory and total warring difficult without what is likely your main army pretty constantly. Nurgle prince fight having to be autoresolved due to crash hopefully will get fixed eventually.

The short turn times are pretty nice I will say. I would really like more smaller map options.

[Zoey]

I personally enjoy it over all but it does have some major down sides. For example the game is basically a race against the other factions to do the objectives. The AI however does not have a failure rate and will basically cheat its way to success. Only your faction leader can do these tasks too often tying them down when they would otherwise be much more useful in the front lines of your conflicts.

But the story is quite nice and gives good motivation, and if you are playing as a non Chaos faction it really feels like the odds are heavily set against you. At-least play it once for the story and I would recommend playing as Kislev for the first time.

[SBA77]

Originally posted by Kharn the Bloody:

Realm of Chaos Campaign

A lot to breakdown here.

Originally posted by Kharn the Bloody:

Is it worth playing?What are the main differences between Realm of Chaos and a standard Total War sandbox?

Personally I'd play it the first because it's the campaign. Actually it's a lot like the Vortex campaign, more so now than at launch.

Just like the Vortex it's story driven and you are competing against all the playable vanilla factions to achieve a goal, in this case collecting the souls of four bosses in the four different Realms of Choas by defeating them so that you can reach the final boss and the final battle. You get to the Realms of Chaos and the bosses through portals that spawn every 30 or so turns briefly, that'll also spawn hostile armies and generate corruption.

Also similar to the Vortex campaign Realms of Chaos now has similar features that allow players to put off the main objective. There are buildings that allow you to prevent Chaos portals from spawning in your territory and you can not only send the AI back to square one by beating their LL in combat, but that the Vortex's handy "Teleport to the AI When They Are About to Win" button is back as well.

Originally posted by Kharn the Bloody:

Can you continue Campaign even after you reach victory conditions?

Yes you can, in fact after you beat the campaign you have a choice unlocking a special unique lord or a massive empire wide buff.

[Enelith]

Note that the "actual race" only concerns the original races on release, not the DLC's (Ogres are a DLC, but they're an exception). The others don't have to deal with the portals and else related to the main story (since they're following a different agenda...).

So people saying "once at best" are only talking about a clunk of races/factions.

[the cup]

DLC realm of chaos campaigns are extremely fun, sometimes I actually prefer them to IE.

In particular the Chorfs, Elspeth and Malakai Campaigns are the pinnacle of the Warhammer campaigns IMO.

I don't enjoy ROC vanilla campaigns, survival battles are grindy and boring and they all just go "surprise!!!! even more enemy reenforcements".

[Taifun_Vash]

You can play it until you are the only one still existing on the map, if you find fun in that.

[Jabroni]

I played it as ogres when it came out and have tried a number of other factions and I think the patches have fixed most of the issues but it still feels small and claustrophobic

Having a call-in that's a clown army to attack mine to make up for no action is no fun