head to head
vs
Age of Empires II: HD EditionvsWarcraft: Orcs & Humans
Age of Empires II: HD Edition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Warcraft: Orcs & Humans leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Age of Empires II: HD EditionWarcraft: Orcs & Humans
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads4 vs 4
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans leans harder on variance: Fog of war hides enemy composition
Optimization9 vs 7
Age of Empires II: HD Edition leans harder on optimization: build orders and economy are near-solvable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.