head to head
vs
FoxholevsStar Wars: Empire at War
Foxhole leans Optimization (Mind & Math); Star Wars: Empire at War leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
FoxholeStar Wars: Empire at War
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 3
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads6 vs 5
Foxhole leans harder on reads: War-long strategy versus humans is reads
Variance3 vs 2
Foxhole leans harder on variance: Logistics outages and front shifts vary
Optimization8 vs 8
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.