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Either can be used to create game models. Game engines typically triangulate everything anyway, and when you export a poly object from max to a format like .3ds, it also will be triangulated.

The reason the poly counts differ between the two geometry types is simple: Editable Poly can have faces with any number of sides. In an EPoly object, if a polygon has 15 sides, it will still count as a single polygon. If you convert the same object to Editable Mesh (which can only handle 3-sided faces), it will turn that 15-sided poly into 13 triangles -- giving you a far higher face count.

When you're working in EPoly, and you want to know how many faces a polygon will triangulate into, subtract 2 from the number of sides the polygon has.

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