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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine cover artvsMount & Blade: Warband cover art

Monaco: What's Yours Is MinevsMount & Blade: Warband

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mount & Blade: Warband leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Monaco: What's Yours Is MineMount & Blade: Warband

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Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Mount & Blade: Warband leans harder on reads: Multiplayer melee involves human feint-reading

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 8

Mount & Blade: Warband leans harder on optimization: Trade routes, troop trees, and fief management are solvable

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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