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The Company of Heroes debate

What the community thinks of Company of Heroes, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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  1. CritByte2

    Remember when everyone said this would be a niche RTS? Or was it niche, whatever, still played it for years.

  2. Leta_1988

    Booted it up again last month, the cover system still teaches Civ VI a thing or two about terrain use.

    CoopRunner

    Cover system beating Civ VI on terrain sounds right to me, though I'd stop short of calling it a masterclass overall, still worth the replay.

    Carpentier2010

    Le système de couverture reste solide, oui, mais je trouve que Civ VI gère mieux la lisibilité globale d'une carte entière.

  3. fwuckert

    Oh sure, it's a masterpiece, that's why half the forum still argues if it even belongs in this bracket.

    Rae_1990

    Half the forum arguing if it belongs, funny since I never see that fight under XCOM, why is that?

  4. IronHunter82

    Way more tense than XCOM turn based tension. Different beast though, closer to real time chess with terrain.

  5. frida_sawayn

    My kid asks for one more mission every single night, so bedtime keeps sliding later than it should.

  6. SaveRex1999

    not gonna lie this one feels overrated to me. the campaign missions get repetitive fast and the ai does some really dumb stuff once you know its patterns. people praise the cover system like its revolutionary but half the time units just stand there taking fire in the open anyway.

  7. LootNinja25

    Played this at a friend's place back when it came out, and we're still arguing about its ranking a decade later.

  8. LaurySniper

    Back in my dorm days a buddy and I would take turns commanding while the other just watched and yelled suggestions, terrible strategy but somehow we cleared entire campaigns that way, we called it co-command even though the game never had a real coop mode for it, good memories regardless of how badly we played.

    ComboWarden

    Pas de vraie coop mais l'entraide improvisée, ça marche souvent mieux que les modes officiels de toute façon.

  9. GerhardByte

    closer to XCOM in tension than Civ VI ever gets, different genre but same tight nerves

    Alice_1995

    Ce qui frappe surtout c'est la gestion du terrain justement, chaque haie ou mur devient un vrai choix tactique et ça change toute l'approche des combats.

    Córdoba2003

    La tensión existe, sí, pero comparar con XCOM me parece forzado, son ritmos distintos y aquí el terreno pesa mucho más que cualquier decisión táctica puntual.

    LaceyOwl

    Same feeling here, I kept coming back to it years after XCOM had already faded from my rotation.

  10. CosmoHunter49

    I was in college when this came out and my roommate had it running constantly, we'd skip classes to finish just one more skirmish, feels like another life now.

    SilviaAce

    No sé si comparar es justo, pero jugando esto después de XCOM se nota que la tensión viene de otro lugar, aquí es el terreno el que decide, no el turno ¿a ustedes también les pasó?

    NeonSniper

    Skiping classes for a skirmish sounds familier, my study group did the same thing back then.

  11. GlitchBard3

    What sells it for me is the terrain use, real terrain use, not decoration, every hedge and wall actually matters and changes how you fight.

  12. ArcadeLegend3

    I've put more hours into this than Civ VI honestly, though for very different reasons, the pacing is night and day.

    Bayer15

    Only a few hours myself, but same gap I felt too.

  13. RogueNinja62

    On revote toujours pour lui par habitude à ce stade, mais bon, ça n'empêche pas qu'il le mérite encore un peu.

    Coop_Hagenes

    Replying to Faivre4

    Terrain, exactly, that whole night we kept fighting over one hedge like it was WORTH it.

    Faivre4

    Je me souviens d'un dimanche entier passé dessus avec un ami, on n'avait prévu qu'une partie et on a fini la nuit tombée.

  14. LootAce

    No lo domino del todo pero cada partida me enseña algo nuevo sobre el terreno, creo que por eso sigo volviendo.

    leilani_harber

    Compared to most turn based strategy from that era, this one demands you react in real time, no pausing to think forever.

  15. SilentDragon

    Je le fais découvrir à mon fils petit à petit, en lui expliquant pourquoi telle position tient mieux qu'une autre, il commence à comprendre la logique du terrain, ce qui me surprend pour son âge, même si les missions les plus longues finissent par le lasser et il préfère les batailles courtes.