head to head
vs
Golden AxevsMoonstone: A Hard Days Knight
Golden Axe leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Golden AxeMoonstone: A Hard Days Knight
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 2
Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight leans harder on reads: Human knights in multiplayer bait swings, a real but small layer
Variance2 vs 4
Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight leans harder on variance: Encounter rolls and dragon placement vary each campaign
Optimization5 vs 4
Golden Axe leans harder on optimization: Wave patterns and magic usage are fully learnable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.