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Robocraft cover artvsWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness cover art

RobocraftvsWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Robocraft leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
RobocraftWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans harder on execution: Faster micro across land, sea and air units

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness leans harder on variance: Fog of war conceals enemy tech and armies

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.

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