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Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns cover artvsStar Wars: Empire at War cover art

Kohan: Immortal SovereignsvsStar Wars: Empire at War

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Star Wars: Empire at War leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Kohan: Immortal SovereignsStar Wars: Empire at War

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns leans harder on execution: Modest micro thanks to company-based formations

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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Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns

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Star Wars: Empire at War