head to head
vs
Mount & Blade: With Fire and SwordvsWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Mount & Blade: With Fire and SwordWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans harder on execution: Directional melee and mounted gunplay reward manual skill
Reads3 vs 5
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans harder on reads: Multiplayer scouting wars and build feints
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 7
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.