head to head
vs
Knights and Merchants: The Shattered KingdomvsSimCity
Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); SimCity leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Knights and Merchants: The Shattered KingdomSimCity
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 1
Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom leans harder on execution: Manual troop formations need some real-time handling.
Reads1 vs 1
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.