Must have DLC's?

[Abomination713]

I have never played a Total War game at all and have very little knowledge of the Warhammer universe outside of Skaven bad from Vermintide 1 and 2. Was bored and thinking of picking the game up while on sale since it looks very interesting and sounds like one of the better Total War games they have released. If I pick it up, which DLC are must haves? Do any of them change or add things to the game for every faction to use? Are all the DLC just more lords and it's all just personal choice? Since I know nothing about Warhammer I'm just be sticking to the humans for now if that makes a difference.

I know that if I buy Warhammer 1, I can combine the maps which sounds cool. Any DLC that are a must have from the first game?

[A.Pot]

If its your first time playing Total War, you should probably just buy the first game and not buy and any of the DLCs. Just give it a try first and decide if it is something you like in the first place.

[Ogami]

Norsca is the best faction DLC from the first game, Wood Elves and Beastman i would skip, they really need an overhaul and dont work very well in Warhammer 2.
Warriors of Chaos is ok if you want to play as them but they are a very boring campaign in my opinion.

Apart from that, grab all the free lord DLC for both games and get the blood DLC, the battles look way better with it.
Does not matter if you buy it for Warhammer 1 or 2, it counts for both games.

After that i would just play the game and try a few factions, if you find some you really like you can look into getting more lord DLC for them down the line or some new faction DLC for Warhammer 2. ( Tomb Kings, Vampire Coast are both really good).

The game has so much content, even with just Warhammer 1+2 and no further DLC you have enough to do for hundreds of hours if you want.

Also, one thing to note about DLC for Warhammer, ALL the content that the DLC add ( new lords, factions, units, gameplay changes, and so on) are always in the game, even if you dont own them.
They get added with free patches that everyone gets. So you will encounter those DLC factions in the game, controlled by the AI. You just cant play them yourself.

So there is no " must have" DLC which prevents you from playing the game on a even field with users who have all the DLC.

Well, some of the lord DLC units can be very powerful but still, its not a must.

[Sardorim]

Queen and the Crone gives High Elves their most broken unit ever created... And let's you use the Everqueen which is cool too.

The Prophet and the Warlock is a must, in my opinion, as Skaven are so much more fun with it and Ikit Claw is amazing. He can literally nuke his enemies in battle and on the campaign map. Ikit Claw also has exclusive stuff that no other skaven has.

Tomb Kings and Vampire Coast let you play entirely new races - very well done races. Warriors of Chaos, Norsca, Beastmen, and Wood Elves do as well but they're very, very outdated and are nowhere near as fun as the Warhammer 2 races. They all need do-overs and odds are the Chaos aligned ones won't get it til Warhammer 3 which will be Chaos themed.

Blood DLC is a must. This is Warhammer. And Total War. You need blood and gore.

The others are based more on preference. Though The Warden and the Paunch is really fun. Grom is insane with his Goblins while Eltharion is literally Elven Batman.

After that I suggest playing Warhammer 2 (Vortex or Mortal Empires) with no mods installed. Beat a Campaign then start experimenting with mods.

[Kaybern]

Only buy the dlcs for factions you like otherwise I would buy wh1 and wh2 to unlock mortal empires and see if the game interests you

Or just wh1 at first and see if the style of game interests you

[Ahriman87]

Dont buy any DLC, this game is ♥♥♥♥♥ and you willl give money to a bunch of retarded trash who cannot code a game correctly without puttin heavy script.

[Rack]

Prophet and Warlock, Queen and the Crone are must have. The rest is really upto you. Tomb Kings is best faction dlc.

Buy second game and find out if you like the game first then buy dlcs

[Goatmanpig]

Originally posted by Ahriman87:

Dont buy any DLC, this game is ♥♥♥♥♥ and you willl give money to a bunch of retarded trash who cannot code a game correctly without puttin heavy script.

This is bait

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Goatmanpig:

Originally posted by Ahriman87:

Dont buy any DLC, this game is ♥♥♥♥♥ and you willl give money to a bunch of retarded trash who cannot code a game correctly without puttin heavy script.

This is bait

Just ignore him, he is trolling the entire day already and making crappy troll threads/posts.
His opinion is more then worthless.

[Menzagitat]

Originally posted by Udoroth:

Only buy the dlcs for factions you like otherwise I would buy wh1 and wh2 to unlock mortal empires and see if the game interests you

Or just wh1 at first and see if the style of game interests you

What is this "mortal empires" which is unlocked by having both wh1 and wh2?
Why not buy only wh2 which has better rating?

[Martydi]

Originally posted by Menzagitat:

Originally posted by Udoroth:

Only buy the dlcs for factions you like otherwise I would buy wh1 and wh2 to unlock mortal empires and see if the game interests you

Or just wh1 at first and see if the style of game interests you

What is this "mortal empires" which is unlocked by having both wh1 and wh2?
Why not buy only wh2 which has better rating?

Mortal Empires is a second campaign. WH2 on its own gives you the Vortex campaign, which can be played with High Elves, Skaven, Lizardmen, Dark Elves and Bretonnia on its own, as well as Greenskins, Tomb Kings, Vampirates and Empire if you have the DLCs for them.

If you buy WH1, you get to download the Mortal Empires campaign. It combines maps from WH1's Old World campaign, and WH2's Vortex campaign into one giant map. You can play as everyone from the Vortex, plus races from WH1 (that is Empire, Vampires, Greenskins and Dwarfs, as well as Wood Elves, Beastmen and Norsca if you have DLCs).

Mortal Empires offers many more factions to play as, and an entirely different map, plus you don't have to bother with the Vortex race, which makes for a better sandbox experience.

[Kaaz]

Originally posted by al_potenciano:

If its your first time playing Total War, you should probably just buy the first game and not buy and any of the DLCs. Just give it a try first and decide if it is something you like in the first place.

^

[Martydi]

Originally posted by Kaaz:

Originally posted by al_potenciano:

If its your first time playing Total War, you should probably just buy the first game and not buy and any of the DLCs. Just give it a try first and decide if it is something you like in the first place.

^

Actually, no. Buy the second game first. Game 1 is the objectively worse experience.

[Kaaz]

Game 1 is fine, in the confines of game 1

[wrought82]

game 1+2 is already hundreds or thousands of hours. start with that unless you have cash burning a hole in your pocket and nothing to d w your time.
When you're bored with those, any of the faction DLCs, beastmen is probably the least interesting and my favorite is tomb kings but in the end all of them are worth the $.
the nonfaction DLCs where you just get new units and a few new mechanics but not a new faction are more debatable whether they are worth the cash...but they arent very $ so you'll prolly end up getting those as well^^

[Menzagitat]

Originally posted by Martydi:

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Thanks! :)

Originally posted by wrought82:

unless you have cash burning a hole in your pocket [...] so you'll prolly end up getting those as well^^

They all want to take my cash. And the summer sale comes soon