head to head
vs
Mount & Blade: WarbandvsV Rising
Mount & Blade: Warband leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); V Rising leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Mount & Blade: WarbandV Rising
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
V Rising leans harder on execution: Twin-stick action combat precision
Reads2 vs 4
V Rising leans harder on reads: PvP servers reward reading raids
Variance3 vs 2
Mount & Blade: Warband leans harder on variance: Emergent campaign events and lord politics
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.