head to head
vs
Mount & Blade: WarbandvsWildStar
Mount & Blade: Warband leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); WildStar leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Mount & Blade: WarbandWildStar
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
WildStar leans harder on execution: Telegraph dodging and movement DPS set a real physical bar.
Reads2 vs 2
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
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.