Company of Heroes is a real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment. It was released on September 12, 2006, and was the first title to make use of the Games for Windows label. A standalone expansion, Opposing Fronts, was released on September 25, 2007. A second standalone expansion, Tales of Valor was released in April 2009. Company of Heroes Online, an MMO version of the game was released as a free-to-play, microtransaction based game in South Korea in April 2010.[1][2] Company of Heroes: Online Open Beta ended on March 31, 2011. According to Relic Entertainment, the reason for the servers being shut down was the developers' new unnamed RTS project which was to be unveiled in August 2011.[3] It was announced on February 21, 2012 by Aspyr Media that they would be releasing Company of Heroes and all of the standalone expansions to the Mac OS X platform on March 1, 2012.[4] This also happened, and Company of Heroes is now also available on the Mac App Store.
Resources
The resource management in Company of Heroes retains micromanagement details such as reinforcing troops, which has the effect of creating a less tactical RTS experience.
Players must take control of certain points on the map. The more of these points a player controls, the more resources they acquire. This concept demands constant expansion of a player's territory. These points are connected like supply lines, and so, during the course of a battle a player can capture one point in the supply line, isolating the rest which had been connected to the base through it, therefore reducing the enemy's resource intake.
Buildings
Units can occupy a civilian building and convert it into a field barracks, allowing certain units or squads to be created by that building, thus allowing a forward unit production and reinforcement point.
Medic stations can also be built on the field to house medics, who can recover fallen soldiers from the battlefield and return them to the medic station. When enough soldiers are recovered by medics (4 for Germans and 6 for American), they are formed into a combat ready squad by the medic station at no expense of manpower, however player must have room for the returned soldiers.
Contents
1 Gameplay
1.1 Resources
1.2 Buildings
1.3 Combat mechanics
1.4 Factions
1.4.1 Allies
1.4.2 Axis
1.5 Multiplayer
1.6 Game modes
1.6.1 Victory Point Control
1.6.2 Annihilation
2 Plot
2.1 Single-player campaign
2.1.1 D-Day
2.1.2 Battle of Carentan
2.1.3 Battle of Cherbourg
2.1.4 Operation Cobra
2.1.5 Operation Lüttich
2.1.6 Falaise Pocket
2.2 Distinguished characters
System Requirements
Minimum
OS: Windows Vista (32bit), Windows 7
Processor: 2Ghz Intel Core2 Duo or Equivalent
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 20GB
Video Card: 256MB Direct3D 10 capable video card (GeForce 8800 or RadeonHD 2900)
Additional: Internet Connection
In the world's darkest hour you are a commander of the Soviet Red Army,
entrenched in brutal front line warfare to free Mother Russia from the Nazi
invaders.
It is 1941 and the beginning of what will become the bloodiest conflict of
World War II resulting in more than 14 million military casualties.
Witness the struggles of the Red Army from near defeat through their
incredible triumph over Germany in the most challenging and costly theater
of the war, the Eastern Front.
Your military tactics hold the power to tip the very balance of this
conflict. Engage in tactical combat that will define you as a military
leader and wield the might of the Soviet Empire as you smash your way to
Berlin.
The Motherland is Calling!
