Building comparison
head to head
Guns of Icarus OnlinevsSupreme Commander
Supreme Commander asks more than Guns of Icarus Online, and the gap is optimization.
Guns of Icarus Online
Reads · Mind & Math
A team airship battler testing crew coordination and outmaneuvering human captains.
Supreme Commander
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Large-scale RTS famous for strategic zoom, thousand-unit armies, and a streaming mass-energy economy.
Guns of Icarus Online leans Reads (Mind & Math); Supreme Commander leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Guns of Icarus OnlineSupreme Commander
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Guns of Icarus Online
Gunnery arcs and repair juggling need competent hands
Supreme Commander
Massive APM demands across strategic-zoom battlefields
Reads6 vs 5
Guns of Icarus Online leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Guns of Icarus Online
Human captains feint, reposition and counter your ship tactics
Supreme Commander
PvP hinges on scouting and countering opponent commitments
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Guns of Icarus Online
Cloud cover hides ships briefly, little else random
Supreme Commander
Deterministic engine; only unscouted intel
Optimization6 vs 8
Supreme Commander leans clearly harder on optimization.
Guns of Icarus Online
Loadouts, role coordination and positioning are deeply plannable
Supreme Commander
Streaming economy and build-order efficiency are the backbone
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.