Hello there Eador fans, I want to get into the Eador game series and am wondering where I should begin. Is there some continous storyline that ties all games together or is Eador more like an iterative series, where the newest game will offer the best gameplay experience because of fleshed out mechanics/systems that all three games have in common. Or is it the opposite and every game delivers a unique gameplay/story experience that's worth playing individually? Price and system requirements are not relevant to me :)

The main difference between the latest game and the earlier ones is that Imperium ( the most recent one) has multiple short campaigns while the Masters of the Broken world and Genesis have one long campaign (very long in Genesis).

In my opinion Imperium is the best of the three. It's the newest and the only one still being actively updated (latest update was today). It also has significantly more content than the earlier ones.

Genesis was fun but it's the oldest and both the interface and the gameplay show it's age.

Masters of the Broken World - Avoid this one. It remains unstable and still has game ending bugs that apparently will never be fixed.

Thanks for your input, i guess i'll try imperium first then :)

I played all three...

Gensis is the most stable, has the least Bugs and you can play quick and undisturbed.
You can play single maps or a loong strategic sandbox campaign.
The downside is...it's outdated in many aspects UI, Graphics, "animation" and isN't supported any more

MotbW adds some nice features, has a improved UI/controlls, better graphics, real animations... but it plays slower and...has a number of nasty Bugs/glitcheseven noadays,...it's not very common anymore but it still happens that the game corrupts your save...so..make different saves.

Imperium removes the stragic sandbox campaign, adds several new classes&features and every new class gets a storycampaign. I played only the Necrocampaign but the story was below average and overall it was more a expanded tutorial, not a real storycampaign. The Bugs&Glitches that remained at MotbW reappeared at Imperium and some new ones where added, mostly campaign bugs.

My suggestion would be...
If you you're in a "chess"-mood, like strategic games, sandbox and graphic isn't too important to you..play Genesis.
If you need graphic and have the patiance to deal with bugs play motbw
If you need a stoy or don't like strategic sandboxcampaigns start with imperium.

Master of the Broken World has this great music going with it and every match around a shard can take days (given you don't hardcore play one medium shard in a day).
This game is really really long, no comparison to the short skirmishes in games like Age Of Wonders.
And there is little guidance or a quest log. You just play because you like playing it. Every shard is like a game/match in a game, while you progress an overall storyline.

Brilliant game.

I heard Genesis is the same with bad graphics.

Yes Master of the Broken World can crash at times, but is saves every single turn in the Astral and every single turn on a shard. You may need to redo a battle. If it crashes when going back to Astral, just stay a turn or two longer on the shard to change some variables around and try again.

There is a max of ~95 Astral turns before the end and you just do what you can until then. Each Astral turn you can do a match which can take ~1-24 hours or whatever you like.

The new horizons mod adds a LOT of content to genesis. New music as well.

Funny thing about that mod, it's not always best to just get the latest, it seems they are changing things up just to make it different and fun to play sometimes. The latest might be the best, but it might have features you don't like too. Take a look at the logs for the major revisions if anybody reading this is curious.

You have to use the translated version if you don't understand Russian though, it's here in the forum... I use English translated 2.31 currently.

genesis is slow, but speedhacking can alleviate that, not cheating since speedhack doesn't do anything favorable to turn based games (if it was a shooter slowing the down the speed could make you more accurate etc, but it's not so w/e)