![]() (More on that later.) Officers are one of the defining aspects of the American army. ![]() While this might initially seem unfair, or even over-powered, how units are ultimately brought into play is where we see the scale tip back in the favor of balance. Meaning to say, the US faction is given everything they need to hit the ground running right from the get-go. Right when a match starts, players will notice what makes the Americans differ from the Oberkommandos their base structures are pre-built. Let’s take a look at what all is included in this package.īreaking down the two new armies, we first have the US forces. In this pseudo-expansion, we get two new factions and a host of improvements. Enter The Western Front Armies, a standalone DLC that focuses on refining the multiplayer experience by completely forgoing a single player campaign. That being said, despite how compelling COH2‘s story was, the multiplayer left something to be desired if for nothing else than because of the omission of a playable US military faction. In fact, we felt it was the better of the two mainline games, what with its bevy of enhancements and new features. It’s evident from our review of Company of Heroes 2 that we believed it to be a fantastic sequel to an already wonderful game. And while Company of Heroes 2 gave way to some wildly unbalanced and thereby almost completely broken MP, the Western Front Armies damn near wipes the slate clean and gives us a retooled, focused effort that emphasizes balance and new units as much as it does harrowing victories and crushing defeats. Essentially, Relic has gone back to COH2’s multiplayer and taken a long, hard look at what worked and what didn’t. I had lost.Ĭompany of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies has piles of these moments just waiting to be experienced in its standalone multiplayer endeavor that focuses on the game’s two newest factions, the US and Germany’s Oberkommando West forces. But then an artillery strike was called down on my sad, broken forces and it obliterated them all. But all I had to do was hold the point just a little longer - another 2 minutes, and I’d win. As the German’s armor rolled in on me, I knew it was a lost cause. Scrolling frantically to where I thought the shots were coming from, I noticed that somehow I had been flanked by two separate armor units, turning the enemy tank count from one, into three. And then I noticed a similar explosion coming from the building where I had garrisoned some of my paratroopers. But as I readied my army, I noticed my own tank explode in a bombastic display of the heart-dropping fireworks. ![]() I saw the enemy’s tank on the horizon I knew what I was going to do to take it out. I had even managed to buy enough time for my Sherman to deploy and make it to the capture area. Forces exhausted, beaten, and bloody, we fought on using every ability given to me, I played my cards the best I could. That certainly was the case here.Īs I saw my foe’s ground troops rush over the hill like a uncompromising riptide, I braced for what I knew would be my final stand. But in war, the battlefield is ever changing, and any counter-attack that is planned for always has the possibility of not going exactly as intended. As I positioned my troops, manning machine guns that were picked up from fallen comrades, laying razor wire to halt the advance of enemy troops, and hiding my anti-tank gun in the hedge grove just behind my forces, I’d hoped that I would draw my opponent’s colossal tank into the opening where it could be shelled by my bazooka-toting infantry and that hidden AT-battery. I still had a minute or so before my Sherman took to the battlefield, but the game clock was winding down, making the next five minutes the most important of the entire match. With only a handful of riflemen and a single anti-tank gun, the odds were clearly not in my favor. I scrambled to regain my senses and what was left of my men, and pushed forward to re-fortify the hotly contested capture point that had been fought over for the better part of 30 minutes. The percussive blast from a howitzer left me deafened and disoriented.
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