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Battlestations: Pacific cover artvsWarcraft: Orcs & Humans cover art

Battlestations: PacificvsWarcraft: Orcs & Humans

Battlestations: Pacific leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Warcraft: Orcs & Humans leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Battlestations: PacificWarcraft: Orcs & Humans

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 4

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans leans harder on reads: Human multiplayer adds genuine build mind games

Variance2 vs 3

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans leans harder on variance: Fog of war hides enemy composition

Optimization7 vs 7

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Battlestations: Pacific

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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans