@ Tbest I am sure any 2000+ rated player on the ladders could have a 50% win ratio in chess too lololol. 50% is an average win rate, not a good win rate. If your definition of good is the absolute statistical average I don't think your opinion amounts to much.

I am moderately okay at Warlight. On chess I get 400 ELO.

I can compare warlight with blitz chess (5 minutes on game). There are no time to calculated all variants of game and many of moves are performed by intuition and general understanding of possition.

P.S. My blitz chess rating in best times was around 1950-2000 elo.

Edited 6/5/2014 08:55:16

Actually I was thinking more about a comparison to classical time controls, an average good team game in rt last about an hour to 2 hours with 5 minutes per move, which is similar to classical time controls, certainly slower than any rapid game I played.

Chess:
Information available for player: equal, all players view same board.
Move orders of player: one after another
Game units: 7 differnt pieces, 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, 8 pawns which could transform in other pieces except king.
Advantage consists of: material advantage + possitional advantage
Possible moves per turn: 6-40 depending on possition and figures
Possible maps: 1
Ability to change game in one move: yes, one good move could change game (fork, check which leads to checkmate in few turns etc)
Time to make move, when I know how I want to move: short (moving of one piece)

Warlight:
Information available for player: usually not equal because of fog of war.
Move orders of player: simultaneous
Game units: 1 army, max count of armies is usually not restricted
Advantage consists of: income adantage + armies advantage + possitional advantage
Possible moves per turn: all possible distributions of income * all possible moves for every distribution * all possible move orders for selected moves = fu$#ing many xD
Possible maps: infinite count
Ability to change game in one move: yes, one good move could change game (breaking of enemy bonus, good predicton of enemy attack for defence)
Time to make move, when I know how I want to move: long (place armies + move from N regions)

When chess player will start play warlight he/she will see next main differences, which require different way of thinking about game:
- enemy is usually invisible in fog of war -> need to guess where it can be
- game has 2 task: expanding and battle with enemy, and need all time find good balance between them.
- possible moves in every turn is very high compared to chess (but there are criterias which can be used to filter obviously bad moves).
- success in battle depends much from prediction of enemy moves in current turn -> strong mindgames.

So to summarize:
warlight requires more fuzzy logic, prediction of enemy moves;
chess requires more calculation of move combinations and understanding of possition.

Edited 6/5/2014 10:43:20

Thanks Green Tea that was a very well put analysis of the main differences.