head to head
vs
Iron BrigadevsOrcs Must Die!
Iron Brigade leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Orcs Must Die! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Iron BrigadeOrcs Must Die!
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Iron Brigade leans harder on execution: Manual aiming from your walking trench-mech
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 8
Orcs Must Die! leans harder on optimization: Trap placement and kill-corridor economics are the game
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.