Company of Heroes

Great game - still holds up in 2024

This one of the best game ever ply it keep bring because so to learned each time you play it.

I fell in love with the series from the moment I started playing, this is the third time I am playing it again because the game play is unique and demands decisive strategy and action..

It is a real challenge even in medium mode but hard is seriously punishing so start with medium/normal.
the missions in story mode are awesome so i wonder how multiplayer is going to be.

The graphics were good ut in the secons game its way better.

Its a recommend for any RTS fan.
Thumbs up for the developers..

i love is game i was 17 year old now i play is game is fun but i have no friend and i no one help me my rank i am sad and but itsokay thank you game company of heroes pls help me my rank

Nothing is better than dropping insane amounts of indirect ordnance into unsuspecting Germans

Love the Campaign, love the memes that it came out from. 10/10 would rush Rangers/Airborne head on against a MG42 to chuck a satchel charge

This game used to be fun but they ruined it with the upgrades they did since then. I used to build a base and good defenses before moving on, now you are forced by them having enemies attack you before you even have any defenses or other structures built. A game that used to be fun is now a pile of crap made that way by the programmers. I'm sure there is a specific strategy that you can do but I like to play it the way it was when it came out, not the downgrades they did afterwards. The only good thing is that it was relatively cheap, Still, it wouldn't be worth the download even if it was free.

The CP's leaking a bit but we're ready to take orders!

its pretty fun

Even if it's old game, it's still one of the best World War strategy games I've ever played.

lovely jubbely. best wwii rts

My favorite RTS, it has a lot of detail and the maps look like little dioramas. The movement of the units seems more natural to me than in the sequels, the terrain is deformable and the destruction with the Havok physics engine shines. The projectiles bounce off the front of the vehicles and the positioning of machine guns, artillery and so on balances it out quite well. The only problem I see is that the air strikes are super destructive especially if you use the German units.

Single player missions are awesome but don't know why multiplayer is not working 😭

Company of Heroes is an old game. I got the original when it came out years ago. I don't know what I did with it and bought the updated version. So I got the complete version on Steam when I seen it. You need to turn up all the settings to their highest with newer computers for the game to run correctly.

As RTS games go it's in the top ranking.

Used to play it on crack when im on Junior Highschool and i only have a laptop without a gpu before just intel pentium with integrated graphic. Now it still enjoyable but the past fullscreen bug still haven't been fixed.

Its the best of the classic RTS games, COH its much better than COH2 and waaay better than COH3, have a epic story line and a great gameplay.
A 10/10 game, sadly im very bad at micromanagement in battle xD

Excellent RTS game, been playing it for years now. A real classic!

It's a great game but it literally crashes every time you alt+tab. also not being able to move the screen with WASD is horrible and using scripts to do it has only caused more frustrating problems.

nice game than newer versions

It took me nearly 20 years to finally play the campaign... and its surprisingly good. There's been many versions released over the years (and even an update of this one?). No idea what they're like, but this one is? It's fun.

Or as fun as commanding unnamed soldiers to their slaughter can be, which I guess is pretty accurate for WWII Generals.

Great game

bought this as a package with COH 1 , OF, TOV and COH 2, but normandy campaign is locked? solution is they want me to buy the legacy edition including all the DLCs FULL price! without subtracting my paid DLC from another package... cant play this game since 2020...

Timeless classic.

TLDR: An extremely solid RTS which stands the test of time.

General Thoughts/Overview:

Please note: This is a single player campaign review alone, I haven’t tried it online and have no intention of doing so.

I got a lot more from Company of Heroes (CoH) than I thought I would. I enjoyed both the ‘real’ campaigns, and also the short hero stories in tales of valour. The game itself is Real Time Strategy using the capture points to gain resources system, in fact I think this was one of the first to do so. Play as allies or axis, with both factions having two different branches of their forces with three specialisation trees you can choose from, each with their own unique units and perks.

This is a WW2 RTS. The American campaign follows Able Company doing literally everything you’d expect the American campaign to do. The British campaign follows the battle for Caen, and the German campaign follows Operation Market Garden, but from the German perspective. I thought it was an interesting twist on the usual stories and enjoyed it thoroughly.

The main campaigns gave me about 15 hours of play each, and the short stories around an hour each.

Pros:

• Each faction feels very different. To the point where I’d recommend doing the tutorials for each one, as they way they are built is asymmetrical but balanced. I enjoyed the way each campaign felt very different.
  
• Interesting stories, interesting maps, interesting ideas, interesting perspectives, and interesting and varied gameplay. Solving problems form a multitude of angles was really good fun. From the creeping artillery based pushes building trenches and emplacements by the British forces to the lightning mobility of the Panzers, with the American and Wehrmacht offering a healthy mix of the two.
  
• The supporting gameplay is decent as well. Terrain effects combat, and combat changes terrain. Garrison buildings, or hide behind their remains. Barrage an area then hide infantry in the craters. Set traps, ambushes, and defensive lines. Use light tanks to crush small barriers, or support large slow moving tanks to push through heavy blockades. Secure points, use the defences yourself. The supply system works incredibly well, with only one exception I’ll get to.
  

• So that one exception is that you can’t always easily abandon equipment to move forward. This led to a situation where I had to use my own commandos to blow up my own howitzers so I could build a new encampment further forward while I was creeping my lines forward. This was both frustrating and broke immersion. It was also a problem having ‘dead supply’ in a lot of the defence maps, where you need to build stationary emplacements, but then didn’t have enough left over to maintain a mobile enough force to fight effectively.
  
• The pathing of units is suicidal, with fog of war causing issues when I know there’s a sniper, and I’ve tried to send my men in an arc around using shift commands, but they sometimes ignore that and kill themselves running into emplacements I wanted them to avoid.
  
• The size and scale of the maps might be quite daunting for folks who don’t have RTS experience. Several of the maps feature multi-prong attacks which are extremely difficult to hold while the enemy just floods you from multiple angles with far more units than you can muster, leading to line collapses and the need to fortify very small areas to effectively fight back.
  

• Allow abandoning of equipment to provide a ‘weapons crew’ who can magically fire all the weapons and offers only a limited fighting potential otherwise. Also provide the option to build ‘uncrewed’ emplacements to match.
  
• More ways to increase army cap. I enjoyed what we had but it felt too small in most maps. I imagine technology held back the amount that could be supported 20 years ago, but it must be possible to increase unit cap now.
  
[*] I’d have liked some more ‘advanced’ orders. Such as “Retreat to nearest HQ when at 75%,50%,25%,0% Squad strength (selectable)”, “Merge units of the same type” “Patrol”, “Abandon Garrison when building HP at 75%,50%,25%,0% stability.”

Excellent war game with realistic battles and sounds.

I love it, being able to command troops down the individual soldier

best rts game only thing is needed is soviets

Soldiers with rifles destroys a mg42 armored car before the machine gin kills them so ridiculous lmao

great strategic planning game. Great way to pass some time by didn't even realize that I've went through 15 hours so far it's crazy how time flies by when you're having fun

Despite it's age I really love this game
really solid ww2 rts

The easy and relaxing play.

LMAO there aint no way bro... this game is such a downgrade from CoH2 its crazy. Its a complete pain to play in skirmish.

This is the most realistic strategy game until the year it released. Realistic tactial combat of WW2. It is so good to realize WW2 as a strategy game.

Best part. No subsequent ones have ever reached its level. The effects, sounds are amazing, it's 2006, and everything is done so well that it amazes even now. I recommend everyone to take it. There is also a cool free mod Eastern Front. Dare to recommend!

Brilliant addictive little game

I wasnt sure id like this game until hour number 110. Up until then i though "eh, its ok i guess, but i wish there was more borderline Nazis in the player community IRL and a much more frustratingly stupid way to arrange my controls for the keyboard. The default controls are barely even impossible!".

I did eventually figure out those two problems, I now pretend in the fan servers of discord to be a female anime picture, and ive finally been able to meet all those lovely intolerant jack-boots i had longed to meet for the first 110 hours. I even managed to make friends with several hundred players who are so good , and they know they are that good, that rather then humiliate me over the course of a strategic game will instead commit all there resources into the loudest fastest and most impotent display of preferably off feild artillery, and then inorder to save me the embarasment of having to admit i just cannot compete with th eintellect, simply shut down there program and have me booted from the match. Some even scream NOOOOB , which im sure is a shorthand way of stating "no oh uh oh b(ye)" - clearly a way to say its not that you that lacks strategic ability but rather they themself felt it was unjust for me to have to face a player of there advanced ability and having recognised this mistake, decide to quickly say there farewell and cancel the match inorder to efficiently and politly re ernter the que in the lobby for another, better balanced match. I can only thank them for there wisdom and rapid assesment in order to prevent me a new player from getting discouraged in teh beggining hours of learning this game. And besides, everybody knows the foyer is the best part of this experience, such a wide variety of different people and a diverse pool of opinions on topics such as "are British players retarded actually" and the exactly detailed minutae of there manifesto as to why they simply will not ever play as allies. I must agree, before being lectured for several hours on the topic - i had no idea just how desperatly i really needed to know there expert opinion on the topic.

All in all I think this game is actually incredibly fun, and thus unsuitable for anyone to play. Luckily though the games designers and programmers had discovered ways to balance that enjoyment with things like American Infantry blob rush, German tank production in early game of at least 4 Stug, pioneer teams that dont get shot no matter how close or the exact number of rifles discharged directly at them and a lovely idea of distributing randomly across the keyboard all the keys you will need to actually play the game in a manner both fast enough and competant enough to not look like a half drowned elk carcass in a drug induced full body spasm or a brain dead chimpanzee with both hands nailed to his forehead. Naturally they removed the ability to decide for ourselves what our key layout wouldlook like and the inconvenient hassle of choosing a distance and angle of our own choice for the game camera out of millions of combinations by deciding to settle on placing the view exactly far too close to the player characters but enticingly far out enough to make recalling techniques for winning bewilderingly evaporate from our minds as we breakdown into rage fuelled depressive tantrums after our elite highlytrained infantry decide again that the correct course of action when confronted with a tank about to murder us is to rapidly stop all movement fire ineffectivly and proceed to advance directly into any artillery fired at us all while reminding poor sweet Conrad to once again tie his fukin shoelaces.

All in all an excellent and responsive narrative setting coupled with graphics that do captivate and enthrall players regardless of age due to being stunningly beautiful it is mercifuly saved by an excruciatingly idiotic experience of applied late-stage dementia level AI in the individual soldiers choices of action coupled with a game camera that is universaly remarked to be the dumbest decision ever undertaken ever of all time but very closely followed by a key design imported directly from a syphilitic dullards left buttock - it is an experience only enriched by suicidal levels of rage and frustration at the incrasingly baffling choices of player interaction made by this studio - which has managed to go broke and squander fanatical levels of fan admiration for there creations repeatedly for the past 2 decades but does not trust you to choose your own 12 keys and directonal indicators on th ekeyboard or exact level and inclination of viewing angle.

And rightly so - we are cretins and we deserve to be treated as such. Punish us Relic, for you are much much much better and cooler then us.

Amen.



*the author of this piece was given a free copy of the game from a anonymous and presumably Korean individual he will never meet via random torrenting software after having purchased the entire series at least 3 times over the years with no way to retain his rights to that ownership and gladly agreeein ghe would do so again while driblling from one corner of his slack mouth and vocalising the word "DDDUUUHHHRR".

This is a fun strategy game. can be played solo, PVP or coop. Tactics matter.

I think Company of Heroes 2 and 3 are nowehere near as good as this game

Some games are just classics you could play forever. This is one of them

Just like World War Two

The game was really great. It had a very beautiful story and cool DLCs. Just because I had played before the game Men of War, I couldn't connect with the skirmish part.

One of my favourite strategy games that is based on WWII. The vehicles and units are good enough for Coh1 as its the 1st game, compared to Coh2. In my opinion, I like the UI on this game compared to Coh2. This game has some of my favourite tanks, which include Tiger 1, Tiger 2 and Piershing. Its fun how strategy this game is, mortars, mgs, artilleries, etc.

Great game. For sure.

Still the best of the series.

fun to play!!!

Fun and easy to play

to hell with steam, steam stopped working...now im using a vpn to acess steam, i cant even play it... after installing

This game saved my marriage!

Me and my wife were constantly arguing over the most trivial things and it was heading straight to a divorce until one day I noticed this on the steam store and so I bought it for myself and gifted my wife a copy since then we could not be happier as we play as the Germans and just devastate areas of the map with V2 rockets

Thanks Company of Heroes for liberating my marriage from the possibility of divorce and helping me meet my new girlfriend too!
5 stars!

its a very good game worth every penny

The best RTS for low APMers. Possibly the GOAT