I played my first game of WI last night and it was a lot of fun. I'm going ot pick up the other race expansions (I'm a long time Fantasy player) simply to have each race that is released. My question is about the expansion card packs. Are the expansions only useful if you are going to build unique decks or can you shuffle them up and then deal out a number of them to each player (who will have a stock race deck) just like the neutral cards? I don't really want to get into deck building, but I would like to add more to each of the race decks. Will that work?

I searched the forum and didn't find an answer and I can't find a product information sheet that clearly explains how to use the expansions.

If u buy an actual expansion, you can generally just add in all the cards to the decks and keep playing, if you don't care too much about balance.

Assault on Ulthuan comes with 2 pre-made decks, 1 for High Elves and 1 for Dark Elves. These 6 are the only factions with their own capital board. All other factions are neutral. It also comes with about 6 extra cards for each of the original 4 races.

March of the Damned doesn't come with pre-made decks, but if you just took every Undead card in the set and put them together, you'd have a deck. Same goes for the Lizardmen. It also comes with a few new cards for each of the 6 main races.

The only other real "factions" at present are the Skaven and Wood Elves, but the Skaven cards are distributed throughout a bunch of the battlepacks. I think the Legends expansion includes a pretty large number of Wood Elves. It also includes 2 Legends for each of the 6 main races, as well as a bunch of other cards for those races.

Most of the early battlepacks are divided pretty evenly, so that if you bought one you will get about the same number of cards for each races. Many battlepacks have a theme, like including 1 good attachment for each race, or 1 epic spell. Starting in the capital cycle, the battlepacks are more focused on a specific race.

In summary, the core set and the big expansions are a pretty good way to just add new cards/mechanics to the decks you have, and add entirely new factions if you are willing to do a little deckbuilding.