men of war assault squad 2 vs company of heroes 2

But you will need to build specific structures to tech up and unlock better units. You won't be fiddling around with mines or supply depots like StarCraft – your resources still come from capturing and holding points across the map.

In the slice I got to play, I really enjoyed the dynamism this adds and the way it rewards aggressive infantry doctrines, when previously my only option might have been to set up in my own unoccupied building and exchange ineffective fire with the enemy until one of us brought in enough heavy hardware to blow the whole front line to smithereens.īase building is also back, and it works roughly the same way it did in the first Company of Heroes. Breaching will allow your squads to kick the door down on a garrisoned building and chuck a grenade in to dislodge or destroy the defenders turtled up inside. Infantry have new tools to take on a wider array of battlefield roles, too. And while I didn't get to play with them directly, it's also been confirmed that we can gain access to Italian partisan units, representing the local paramilitary fighters who resisted the fascist regimes of Hitler and Mussolini.

I was particularly excited to see the Nepalese Gurkhas, one of the most fabled units of the war, finally making their appearance.

In service to this philosophy, Company of Heroes 3 will have a greater diversity of infantry units than the series ever has, representing many different tactical roles and the wide array of nationalities that participated in the Italian campaign.

Men of war assault squad 2 vs company of heroes 2