Honestly I wouldn't bother with DLC there's so much content. Maybe if you end up playing it to death the next time there's a mega DLC sale. 3 is also best bang for your buck DLC wise when it's on sale.
Chaos Dwarves isn't free but Ogres should be included (unless it was pre-order like Chaos in WH1). Chaos Dwarves are probably the best DLC, out of the WH3 DLCs so far, but I still have hardly touched WH3 compared to WH2 and prefer the races from 1 and 2.
CA has done a lot to improve WH3 since release, I'd say it's definitely better than WH2 at this point. Ogres were the preorder bonus race, so pretty sure you'll have to pay, though if you pick up Omens of Destruction (latest DLC) you'll have access to Golgfag Maneater who is the best Ogre campaign anyway. Chaos Dwarfs were never free to my knowledge, but it's a really good DLC.
I’ve got over a thousand hours into 1 and 2. I just didn’t like 3 at launch. At all.
Sieges were fixed a long time ago. If you slow grind a siege the defender will gain enough supplies to eventually build everything, but they can no longer rebuild shit. Once you destroy something, it's gone. Also, minor settlements are no longer mini sieges unless the settlement has the tier 3 defense building, it will be a field battle otherwise.
Yeah, settlements not being sieges anymore has me fucked up. I really like the change, but I used to build with sieges in mind and have had to totally change strats. I've been getting turbo fucked on Legendary, getting used to the new mechanics.
Yeah, none are dogshit, other than maybe Daemons of Chaos. They still haven't really made the Daemon Prince that great of a lord; if you want to play specific Chaos Daemon faction, play one of their specific lords because their mechanics are more interesting, and if you want to play a mixture, Be'lakor is better and more interesting.
Maybe dogshit was too strong of a descriptor, I just think of all the WH3 LLs he's probably my least favorite. I had a lot more fun uniting Chaos with Be'lakor.
Not necessarily disagreeing but who else is there to be the FLC Slaanesh LL? Azazel would've been perfect, but he's on WoC for some retarded reason (the retarded reason being it should've been Sigvald in that DLC but he was already in the game).
I agree on Bretonnia but what's wrong with the Beastmen? Their last update really fixed them up with great mechanics.
I'm not aware of a canon mount option, but she's a daemonette so you could slap her on any unit that daemonettes are already riding without causing a fuss. The issue with the daemon prince or keeper of secrets is there's already two lords of that type, N'Kari as the keeper, Azazel as the prince (although, again, he's on the wrong faction). Daemonettes are the standard Slaaneshi troop so I just kind of expect one of the LLs to be a daemonette (same as Epidemius representing plaguebearers and Skulltaker for bloodletters). Of course, this logic doesn't hold true for Tzeentch, but he's also down a LL compared to the others.