![]() ![]() This is where Company of Heroes 3 gets closer to a traditional grand strategy game, and you can even auto-resolve battles if you don’t feel like getting your boots dirty every time. You can call in air support or bombard coastal targets using warships, or transport troops around by sea to get ahead of enemy movements. In this mode your primary goal is to advance the war effort by capturing and holding specific targets, destroying enemy defences, and liberating captured settlements. It’s more vehicle-focused initially, given that Rommel was an infamous tank commander, which allows for some tactical variety. In the Italy campaign you’ll control Allied forces, primarily British and American, while the African campaign casts you as the Axis forces as led by General Rommel. Between combat missions you spend time on an overmap, moving squads of soldiers or vehicle units to different strategic positions. Your men might spend as much time screaming for a medic as they do insulting the enemy, but the balance is skewed towards the “tally-ho” side of WWII.Īs the Theatre Commander of either of the two campaigns, Italy or Africa, you’ll direct squads of fighting men, led by squabbling Generals who you’ll often be forced to side with as they trade grudgingly respectful barbs and bicker over which targets to strike or which towns to capture. ![]() ![]() In particular it’s the little soundbites from your soldiers, tossing insults in strong Welsh accents, speaking in Cockney rhyming slang, or deep American drawls. It’s not a laugh-a-minute or anything and this is still war, after all, but there were definitely moments that had me chuckling. ![]() One thing that struck me right away while playing Company of Heroes 3 was just how, well, funny it is. ![]()
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