FFT help just getting into it

[Dreamer]

I want to get into FFT and i want to know the chronological order and which is canon..
I was thinking of playing war of the lions, but im worried that A2 is unaccessible to me.. so will i be missing anything or is that jus a total different story canon-wise

[Blue Link]

no. the story in A2 is totly different. in fact, it closely resembles FFTA. if you've played that, then you should have no problems.

[Rockman X]

Yep, you're good starting off on War of the Lions. Chronologically, things go like so:

XII --> Revenant Wings --> Tactics (War of the Lions) --> Vagrant Story

Tactics Advance would seem to occur before Tactics, since Moogles, Bangaa, and the other furry races haven't gone extinct yet. However, since it's a dream world, it complicates things. It's likely a jumbled-up replication of the real pre-Tactics Ivalice. It's sort of an off-branch to the timeline.

Now TA2 just makes things even crazier. Even though it's a sequel to TA, it's set in the real Ivalice. I'm guessing it's around the time period of RW.