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Guild WarsvsSupreme Commander

Guild Wars leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Supreme Commander leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Guild WarsSupreme Commander

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Supreme Commander leans harder on execution: Massive APM demands across strategic-zoom battlefields

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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.

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