head to head
vs
NCAA Football 11vsNorthgard
NCAA Football 11 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Northgard leans Optimization (Mind & Math).
NCAA Football 11Northgard
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
NCAA Football 11 leans harder on execution: Stick moves and pass timing matter on every snap
Reads5 vs 5
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Northgard leans harder on variance: winters, wandering events
Optimization6 vs 7
Northgard leans harder on optimization: clan economy and tile control
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.