As the battle spreads across the map, you wind up having a lot of juggling. You can use those resources to create more tanks, half-tracks, infantry squads, or special weapons crews. Amid the chaos of simultaneous enemy movement, you must dispatch your squads to capture strategic points on each map in order to get more resources. Relic is releasing what is effectively a whole new game, a standalone expansion based on the Company of Heroes 2 game engine.Īs with the earlier games, you play from a top-down view of the battle, with squads of soldiers at your command. By and large, it does a good enough job of balancing historical accuracy and fun. And the final game lives up to my high expectations. I have long been a fan of this series, which first debuted eight years ago, as a perfect mix of state-of-the-art graphics, fast-action real-time combat, and the drama of history. Relic followed that up with Western Front armies for multiplayer play this summer. Ardennes Assault is the latest extension of Relic’s Company of Heroes 2, which debuted last year with a focus on the chilly Russian front. Army companies - Able (airborne), Baker (mechanized), and Dog (support) - in the real-time strategy game. I relived that battle as commander of three fictional U.S.
The attack created a giant bulge in the American lines, and it’s your job as the American commander to close that bulge amid difficult conditions in the middle of winter. Hitler launched an all-out tank assault with more than 400 tanks and nearly 300,000 soldiers in a surprise attack in the Ardennes forest of Belgium in December 1944. Sega’s Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault (available now for Windows PCs) depicts the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, which represented Adolph Hitler’s last stab at glory after the successful Allied invasion of France.
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