Building comparison
head to head
Company of HeroesvsWarcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Company of Heroes
Execution · Grand Arena
WWII squad-tactics RTS where cover micro, sector pressure, and doctrine counters form an interlocking test.
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Optimization · Grand Arena
Blizzard's hero-centric RTS where build-order theory meets surgical unit micro against humans.
Company of Heroes leans Execution (Grand Arena); Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos leans Optimization (Grand Arena).
Company of HeroesWarcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Company of Heroes
Infantry cover micro and suppression-break timing are precise demands
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Micro of heroes and units decides fights
Reads7 vs 7
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Company of Heroes
Opponent sector pushes and doctrine choices must be predicted
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Scouting and out-guessing a human opponent's tech
Variance4 vs 3
Company of Heroes leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Company of Heroes
Reinforcement point capture variance and munitions drops add uncertainty
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Creep routes and item drops add randomness
Optimization7 vs 8
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Company of Heroes
Resource point priority and doctrine selection are learnable systems
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Build orders, creeping routes, and matchup theory run deep
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.