Here repeated playing yields decorative ribbons, vehicle and troop skins, and special abilities. Unlockable enhancements are currently à la mode in the games industry. Game developers Relic instead opt for a series of minor changes, and a graphical overhaul. These components of Company of Heroes, which made it both a commercially successful and enjoyable game, remain unchanged in Company of Heroes 2. Company of Heroes offers a kind of RTS different to Total Annihilation/ Supreme Commander or Star Craft II – base building and warmaking on an epic scale is the approach of the former, while the latter demands micromanagement and mastery of short cuts. This worked better than the straightforward mass-'em-and-rush-'em strategies beloved of the genre's less imaginative offerings. Combat, as in the Second World War, was both fluid and attritional – grinding away at an enemy's front lines and rapid outflanking were both successful strategies. In Company of Heroes, infantry and vehicle classes balanced each other in a sort of six-way variant of 'rock, paper, scissors', while cover and firing lines made positioning central to tactics. Resource-gathering RTS games turn off many casual gamers, since to achieve mastery it helps to have a little bit of decision maths up your sleeve.
It's widely credited with having revitalised real-time strategy games: out went detailed economy management, in came territorial capture. Here starts Company of Heroes 2's campaign: death and decay on the Eastern front.Ĭompany of Heroes: Tales of Valour is a tough act to follow.
At the war's end, Stalingrad's population had fallen from 850,000 to just 1,500. The civilians in Stalingrad are lucky to eat so well: diary accounts show that many of Stalingrad's denizens ate dogs and rats, and stole from their malnourished neighbours to survive. Wehrmacht soldiers, their supply lines cut, and chronically short of food, celebrate Christmas by eating the horses they rode in on. I t's October 1942, and the German 6th Army is trapped on the banks of the Volga River between Red Army divisions stationed in Kalach and Stalingrad.
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