Great set for a beginner player in Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West


On the gameplay reminds the previous game creation Relic Entertainment - a series of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. Players Teams fighters troops, rather than individual units (with the exception of machinery and unique combat unit), at the forefront put the struggle for resources. Each side in the game is divided into three unique infantry-direction, and tank landing Americans and defensive, offensive and propaganda of the Germans, the promotion of which gives access to new units and attacks (eg, plaque Stormtroopers).

Like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, the game has a system of "distribution" of weapons. This means that the player can decide what weapons to equip a platoon of infantry or engineers. The difference is that, firstly, following the death squads to post weapons, and secondly, the platoons in which there are more soldiers without special weapons can pick it. This applies even to the weapon stationary type, such as anti-tank guns, heavy machine guns and mortars.

Another important difference is that the units (including equipment) in the game now have three levels of experience. Each level increases the firing rate, damage, speed, health, armor or combat unit range coverage, depending on its type. New features in combat units do not appear (except Knight Knight´s Cross in the Wehrmacht).

Changed the terms of replenishment of troops - troops can replenish only about barracks, barracks or field support truck (with the exception of paratroopers from the US forces)

One of the most important innovations is to change the control of the infantry. Each infantry platoon has a health setting (health) and morality (suppression), similar to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, but another element was added to CoH - shelter. During the battle, or move through an enemy / neutral territory fighters are now trying to stand up so that they are best protected from the enemy - behind the wall, haystack, or what was left of svezhepodbitogo tank. When moving the unit the soldiers are trying to cling to the walls, be dispersed use of trenches and ditches for cover. This means, on the one hand, now that the men will be better able to cope with the enemy, even without direct player control, but on the other hand, takes a certain freedom of the player (it is easy, however, to restore in the options of gameplay). Shelter for their fighters the player can create and own - mainly by the engineering troops. As a player - sand bags, anti-tank and barbed wire, bunkers and mines along with the already placed on the map by fences, buildings and lanes of dense bush.

The morale of infantry also strongly influences the course of the battle. Platoon came under machine-gun, artillery and mortar fire, automatically fall to the ground, he has reduced the rate of fire and movement. If a player does not take action, the platoon generally ceases to respond to orders and shoot at passing pinned down mode, literally "pinned to the ground."

As a result, the pace of innovation of all battles (but not playing) slows to a crawl, as it is strategically located a machine gun coupled with mortars can stop (if not destroy) a set of conventional infantry platoon. All this, along with a rather low maximum possible number of units and the ability to build fortifications turns the game into a rather interesting mixture of RTS and wargame.

In addition to the single player campaign game allows for multiplayer games over LAN or Internet with a number of players from 2 to 8. In Company of Heroes Relic Entertainment has launched a new online-system for online games, called Relic Online.