This means that you can pause the game and while it is paused, you can issue a series of orders to your troops, which are then queued and when you resume the game, these orders are executed at the same time.

It's worth mentioning a very useful feature called Tactical Pause. Here you have to establish your command center, support structures and forward bases, move companies around, give your soldiers orders to move, attack or plant mines and the like. At this point, the game becomes a traditional RTS where you participate in a very specific battle. The game will feature some of the key battles from history, but with the sandbox style campaign map, expect for them to play out very differently to what you’ve read about in books or seen in The World at War reruns.Much like a turn-based role-playing game, the game changes character when you enter battle. All of this will feed back to the campaign progression.Ĭompany of Heroes 3 is set in the Mediterranean theatre of war, as the Allied forces battle through North Africa and then invade Europe through Italy. In the video, Lead Single Player Designer Sacha Narine explains that missions might feature various objectives, such as forcing enemies out of a location, recovering wrecked vehicles or destroying enemy resources. This has a knock on effect for the missions that you’ll undertake, with Relic having had to design them so that you can always complete them, regardless of the faction, companies and units you’re sending into the fray.

It allows you to command not just forces in direct combat missions, but also take a much broader view to marshal the whole war effort. The Dynamic Campaign Map should make this the most replayable single player campaign in a Company of Heroes title.

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