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Company of HeroesvsStarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Company of Heroes leans Execution (Grand Arena); StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans Execution (Grand Arena).

EXECUTION7 /10READS7 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Company of HeroesStarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 9

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans harder on execution: APM, macro, micro-control under pressure

Reads7 vs 8

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans harder on reads: 1v1 ladder vs adaptive humans modeling you

Variance4 vs 2

Company of Heroes leans harder on variance: Reinforcement point capture variance and munitions drops add uncertainty

Optimization7 vs 8

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans harder on optimization: build orders, economy curves heavily solved

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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