This sees you crossing the Eastern Front and the campaign features 14 challenging missions for you to pick your way through. The game takes place in the legendary setting of World War II, in which you will span several legendary encounters from the perspective of the games new faction the Soviet Red Army. Of course this isn’t just me sharing my preferences for gaming but a warning that I am a complete n00b at CoH2 and may not fully grasp the source material, you have been warned. I’ve tried and failed at this genre before and I’ve yet to find a game that really hooked me, even then I think the last one I moderately enjoyed was C&C Generals! But I have heard great things about Company of Heroes and when presented with a chance to test out this latest edition in the series I just couldn’t help myself. Combined with the Iron Man lock, this makes Ardennes Assault particularly tricky.This week I’ve been getting lost in a part of the gaming world I know little about, real-time strategy. Hell, moving through enemy territory on the strategy map (which you’re often forced to do in order to engage somebody) will cost you some.
Even a successful mission where you’re diligent about healing up wounded squads and lose relatively few troops will cost you a fair bit of strength. Missions can be attempted multiple times, but each of your three companies has limited strength and this depletes as you undertake military actions. It was refreshing to be able to screw up like that, but this expansion is also pretty heavy-handed in the way it applies attrition to your forces. My first efforts floundered around two-thirds in and the rest of my review time has been spent replaying earlier missions to see whether Relic’s claims about dynamic structure hold water. As a result of that I haven’t seen every single mission this expansion has to offer, because I’ve not yet made it through the full thing. Just as in XCOM, this means you can reach a point in Ardennes Assault where you simply have no chance of progressing and may as well restart.
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