Most interesting campaign?

[Galdred]

Which campaigns works best mechanically (including chaos)?
I don't think I will have time to play all 3.
Is there a mod to play Eldars in campaign?

[Fosil]

there is no relevant difference between the campaigns mechanicially, except that nids have simplified resource/ship building mechanics. I would decide which ship roster is most interesting for you. I would use mods too.

either this one:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/veritatem-imperialis-2

or if you want it more wacky:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skalgrim-mod/downloads/skalgrim-mod-v15/

afaik there is no faction switch mod out yet.

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Originally posted by Fosil:

there is no relevant difference between the campaigns mechanicially, except that nids have simplified resource/ship building mechanics. I would decide which ship roster is most interesting for you. I would use mods too.

either this one:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/veritatem-imperialis-2

or if you want it more wacky:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skalgrim-mod/downloads/skalgrim-mod-v15/

afaik there is no faction switch mod out yet.

Skalgrim is confirmed as NOT HERESY. Kind of makes playing the 'crons tedious though, since you end up fighting battle after battle of 1 BB and 2 escorts vs 40-120+ chaos lancespam boats, which requires so. much. cheese. because the lighter 'cron ships do not scale well to any other fleet cap than 100%, while practically every other factions' ships do.

[Kaiafas Kain]

Empire, nids, chaos. Necrons worse.

[SpiceMerchant]

Chaos me thinks is the most interesting

[Froggy Chair]

necron is the most boring of the bunch, 'nids i haven't tried it out yet, chaos is good, the better is still empire to me as it does have three sub factions to spice up things a little, custom campaigns with increased fleet cap and leadership are also funnier (but story related missions will be easier)

[Sang The Racc]

Chaos is definitely the most interesting campaign. The storyline was interesting, the chaos power mechanics were fun to use, and chaos has enough ships and subfactions with their own abilities to really let you experiment with fleet composition. One combination I found incredibly fun was using Khorne ships that get a special boarding ability, and carriers. I was able to output massive amounts of boarding actions and bombing runs before the enemies even got in range.

Tyranids are only fun if you find their playstyle fun, which I personally dont. They are at their most powerful while at close range, swarming and doing ramming and boarding damage. Its the only tactic youll ever use for the entire playthrough.

Necrons are powerful, but boring. They have a single battleship, a single grand cruiser, and the only stance worth using 90% of the time is the chain lightning. They have fun leader powers, though. Scarab swarm is great for healing your ships while also damaging ships around you while you brawl, and transdimensional thunderbolt fantastically wrecks escorts when they line up.