Building comparison
head to head
Fat PrincessvsWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness asks more than Fat Princess, and the gap is execution.
Fat Princess
Optimization · Mind & Math
Team objective tug-of-war testing class economy and reading the other team's pushes.
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Classic RTS that polished Warcraft's formula with naval combat, air units and beloved multiplayer.
Fat Princess leans Optimization (Mind & Math); Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Fat PrincessWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 6
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans clearly harder on execution.
Fat Princess
Simple hack-and-slash actions per class
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Faster micro across land, sea and air units
Reads5 vs 5
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Fat Princess
Predicting enemy team pushes and rescues is constant
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Multiplayer scouting wars and build feints
Variance2 vs 3
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Fat Princess
Minor spawn and map noise
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Fog of war conceals enemy tech and armies
Optimization6 vs 7
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Fat Princess
Class economy, cake feeding and upgrade timing win matches
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Refined build orders and upgrade timings are studyable
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.