Other times, I’d scrape by, hemmed in at the last garrison, before somehow pulling through. At times I’d trounce the foe, charging forward, dominating my patch. Luckily it was a problem easily overcome.Įach battle is hard, and no matter how many successes my team accrued along the way, I never really feel like I was ‘winning’. This was my biggest problem, as the above outlined scenario was merely the introductory level of a further 18 mission campaign testament to the grueling war set forth from the game’s outset. I hadn’t played Company of Heroes 2, and hadn’t even played the original since probably around 2007. This somewhat justifies, or at least attempts to justify, the game’s £30 price point, however it’s immediately clear that developer Relic is banking on newbies being familiar with Ardennes Assault’s forerunners, thus knowing what they’re doing. It’s a standalone expansion, meaning you need not own, or even have played Company of Heroes 2 up until this point.
There’s no over elaborate tutorials, and you’re pretty much thrust into the trenches helmet-first with little to no training or warning from the outset. It felt like moments before, because it was.Ĭompany of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault, the single-player focussed CoH main series RTS expansion is not one for holding hands. It felt like just moments before that we’d arrived at Checkpoint Fox, set up camp, and built our defenses. And now the burgeoning German assault had us pinned back within an inch of defeat.
I could still hear the Captain’s relentless orders clear as day in my ears, as we’d set up our firing stations before this all kicked off: “The area of view is the wrong way! Get it pointed towards the treeline!” and “That’s not gonna do any damn good over there! We need a position between the trenches!” I was new to this. How had it come to this? It had all happened so quickly, too quickly, as bullets incessantly rained over the watchtower I now single-handedly defended.
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