The Meta Map is also heavily tied in with a new experience system called ‘Requisition’. You can even lose entire Companies forever if you advance too aggressively. These decisions will influence the outcome, and can become devastating to either side if you continue to push across multiple locations in a single turn. These take many forms, but, depending on the form, players are given a choice of actions whether to retreat or attack, mortar or rifle, and so on. While advancing your Companies, you run the risk of running into a non-playable random encounter.

It’s not all about the main engagements, however. Permanently weakening the German forces across the entire campaign. Once you are victorious, German troops will scatter to adjacent locations, and can even be intercepted if you have positioned your remaining Companies correctly to force a surround on them. You can take any Company and attack any German held territory, prompting a mission within that region which occurred during The Battle of the Bulge. In fact, Relic even went as far as to boast there is (theoretically) over 1,000,000 potential methods of completing the campaign using the Meta Map.Īll three Companies are on the map, and the player can position them whichever way fits their strategy best. Allowing players to choose their own mission paths as they progress. The biggest addition, and my personal favourite, is the ‘Meta Map’.

This new standalone expansion comes packed with 18 missions, 3 playable Companies (complete with unique Officers, Skill Trees, and Abilities), and an entirely new non-linear campaign map.

Shown entirely from the United States’ forces’ perspective during both the original offensive, and the ensuing counter-offensive. This 40 day long offensive is the setting for Company of Heroes 2’s newest single-player only expansion: Ardennes Assault. Draining German resources immeasurably, and causing the allies to incur unimaginable losses.

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