Sorry for the late ping, but I would suggest the following path:
Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
China: Mao’s Legacy
a. DLC 1
b. DLC 2
c. …
Crisis in the Kremlin (the new one)
I do not mean in terms of time spent there or where you lay your focus on, but purely from a mechanical/difficulty perspective.
I’d recommend you stay with every game for as long as you need to become in navigating it. Ofc not in terms of knowing the intricacies, but a general knowledge of the concepts and especially navigation. With Oatalgie I think all the DLCs just add new countries, with China Maos legacy they also add new mechanics, so I’d recommend going through each DLC.
But that’s just how I’d imagine it to be the easiest and is ofc a biased perspective since this is highly subjective.
There will be a lot of save scumming and that is basically a core mechanic tbh if you want to make heads or tails of the various decisions and their outcomes (because they aren’t that clear in the first two).
In that regard I think it would provide as gentle a learning curve as is possible with Nostalgames’ titles. I think I too have most of my hours in China Mao’s Legacy and it has been their poster child game, but the remake of Crisis in the Kremlin is their absolute best. so far, magnum opus even.
However it is also the most complex, even with hundreds of hours in their other games I had to look up a steam guide ^^'. But they are rly great like the community is churning out guides at a rly impressive rate.
Sorry for the late ping, but I would suggest the following path:
a. DLC 1
b. DLC 2
c. …
I do not mean in terms of time spent there or where you lay your focus on, but purely from a mechanical/difficulty perspective.
I’d recommend you stay with every game for as long as you need to become in navigating it. Ofc not in terms of knowing the intricacies, but a general knowledge of the concepts and especially navigation. With Oatalgie I think all the DLCs just add new countries, with China Maos legacy they also add new mechanics, so I’d recommend going through each DLC.
But that’s just how I’d imagine it to be the easiest and is ofc a biased perspective since this is highly subjective.
There will be a lot of save scumming and that is basically a core mechanic tbh if you want to make heads or tails of the various decisions and their outcomes (because they aren’t that clear in the first two).
In that regard I think it would provide as gentle a learning curve as is possible with Nostalgames’ titles. I think I too have most of my hours in China Mao’s Legacy and it has been their poster child game, but the remake of Crisis in the Kremlin is their absolute best. so far, magnum opus even.
However it is also the most complex, even with hundreds of hours in their other games I had to look up a steam guide ^^'. But they are rly great like the community is churning out guides at a rly impressive rate.
Thanks, comrade.