@steveurkel: Awakening is pretty damn good to enter the series with, but honestly Three Houses blows it out of the water. The tighter cast and generally better writing, along with the ability to turn back time in case of fatal mistakes, makes it probably the best game in the series.
Plus there's no lewd facerubbing. Instead there's elegant teatime!
@darkcaedus: Well, you know going into it that you're playing with risk when you go for ultra-fertile floodplains and whatnot.
Civ does have a problem on higher difficulties that one slipup can start snowballing into failure down the line, and this could exacerbate the issue for sure.
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