Accordingly, you have to pay attention to your troops, analyze the battlefield and the changing situations and make the right decisions. A tank may be a powerful enemy when fighting infantry, but if one of the steel colossi with the right weapons is caught from behind, it can quickly become a burning pile of junk. Stone, scissors and paper in their purest form.
You can improve the special abilities of the companies.īeginners should in any case be prepared for a steep learning curve and not rush anything, because Ardennes Assault is also as tactical as we have known it from the series for years. On the other hand, I found it pleasant not to have to play a boring tutorial mission that explains to me everything that I already know. Newbies may therefore be surprised that apart from the usual unit descriptions and tooltips, there are no entry aids or the like. And this also applies to the lowest level of difficulty, if you proceed carelessly. I don’t have to explain the gameplay to the veterans among the CoH players, but newcomers could sometimes have problems with the tactical demands of the game. So it’s all the more gratifying that Relic is now adding a standalone single-player expansion with Ardennes Assault – and as a snow-loving person, the deep winter Ardennes are all the more delightful as a setting. Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault – TestĪs good as Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies was qualitatively, the add-on offered relatively little to me as a player mainly oriented towards solo mode.