How many unique campaigns?

[sgtnolisten]

So I've recently decided to stop buying anything new for the next while cause nothing really interested me, and start working on my backlog of unplayed or unfinished (dlc included) games in most of my consoles (handhelds and the *really* old ones weren't included even if they still have stuff to count). Warhammer 2 (and one but who needs to count that?) is in this list, and I have all its dlc.

Well, after finding out I seem to have a problem collecting games but not touching them (over 300... and remember, theres still more...) I realized that Warhammer has a *lot* of campaigns that could be considered unique, so I wanted to ask how many there are.

What do I count as unique? Well, mostly story wise. Base Vortex Campaigns follow the same principles but with different stories, so along those lines. So, in hopes you could make my future missery easier to deal with, how many times am I going to have to play through this game to finish it?

[Garatgh Deloi]

*shrugs* Hard to say where the line goes between a "unique campaigns" and a "slightly different campaigns".

Most legendary lord are rather different and also have different faction effects (boosts/buffs etc for the race) and there are 69 legendary lords (in mortal empires with all of the DLC), most of them also have different starting locations.

Then we have the fact that the vortex campaign have different starting locations for some of those same legendary lords and there are also different campaign goals/mechanics for some of them (The DLC ones mostly). So some of them are worth replaying in both mortal empires and vortex.

So if you wanna do some sort of 100% run you are likely gonna be here for hundreds if not thousands of hours :P

[Elitewrecker PT]

Well...
Once for each vortex participating race.
Once or twice for each lord pack excluding Queen&Crone and Prophet&Warlock
At least once for each race pack

For Mortal empires you have Drycha with her own story in the Wood Elves, the rest maybe once for each race, there aren't a whole lot of differences between each faction there, maybe the two most far apart starting locations for each race

[Dr. Uncredible]

The focus on the game is really not on story.
Finish a Vortex campaign with Tyrion or something and cross the game off your list.

Hopefully you´ll enjoy the game and want more, but if not, that´s one game off your backlog.

[Hex]

Every new campaign is unique until a certain point when you just start to steamroll everything, and even then it's random which faction is the biggest kid in the block. For example right now on my Skaven mortal empires I'm fighting Greenskins that had 62 settlements when the war started like 70 turns ago and I'm just slowly grinding them down.

[Migromul]

Story-wise I would say every faction with a unique mechanic.
- Alit Anar (naggaront?) of the high elfs has only a unique moving mechanic, similar to underground-movement. However, this only function in ceartain areas. Except of that, it's the basic vortex-story.
- all Vampire coast-factions have the same goal: pirating and defeating an sea-arch-nemesis eventually. They compete against each other, so no confed available.
- all Tomb kings have the same goal: conquering the black pyramid eventually (by searching and collecting special books of magic) similar to VC, they compete against each other, so no confed avilable.
- all rats except of eshin clan have the same vortex-goal. Although Skyre has access to a unique workshop, and Moulder (is this the "Züchterclan" in the German version?, because I mean his faction) has access to a similar workhop, mutating creatuers instead of upgrading war-gear.
- Tic Tac Toe of the Lizards has a uniuqe story, not bothering with the vortex.
- Nacai too. He is even a Horde-faction (the only one of the order) But relative difficult to play, because he doesn't have much income.
- WH1-factons available for vortex all have unique mechanic and story. Although beastmen function similar in ME and vortex since last patch

All LL have own beck-ground stories, even if they have the same goal in the campaign(s)

And there can be a huge difference between ME and vortex for the factions. Not only do they often start with other units, they often have extrem different starting positions. (Skyre, for example, starts in scavenblight, in ME the only city, I know, which has 12 building points at level 5. All other big cities have 9 and normal ones 7. And the map is also different. (pestilence has an unsuitable region in his starting province, for example and sits at the most southern point of the map, while in vortex. although also starting at lustria, (OIyxl),he is surrounded by other factions, including south.

So, there is a lot, although I didn't mention a count.

[bruktrukruk]

then there is all the faction, race and L.Lord mods!

[abyssalfury]

Assuming you are crazy and wanted to do everything at least once:

4 x base game factions in Vortex
1 x Vampire Coast
1 x Tomb Kings (possibly 2 x, can't remember if Arkhan has different story scenes)

2 x Hunter and the Beast
2 x Shadow and the Blade
2 x Grim and the Paunch
2 x Twisted and the Twilight
2 x Silence and the Fury

Some of the FLC Lords don't take part in the Vortex race, but from memory don't really have any story.

1 x Mortal Empires

No real story, so you can probably count just count this as a one off. Maybe 2 x for Chaos.

[sgtnolisten]

Originally posted by bruktrukruk:

then there is all the faction, race and L.Lord mods!

Yeah. No. I ain't touching mods...

[sgtnolisten]

Thank you everyone.