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Europa Universalis IV cover artvsTotal War: Warhammer II - Serpent God Edition cover art

Europa Universalis IVvsTotal War: Warhammer II - Serpent God Edition

Europa Universalis IV leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Total War: Warhammer II - Serpent God Edition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Europa Universalis IVTotal War: Warhammer II - Serpent God Edition

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Total War: Warhammer II - Serpent God Edition leans harder on execution: Battle micro APM helps but never twitch-decides campaigns

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 8

Europa Universalis IV leans harder on optimization: idea groups, economy, mana spending

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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Total War: Warhammer II - Serpent God Edition