![]() Dog company is all about support units, Able the more infantry-based Airborne while Baker company features mechanised infantry. However, each company is a different twist on the US Forces model. It’s on this Risk-like meta map that you manoeuvre your three companies, to the various missions and engagements against German controlled regions, picking your battles and the overall strategy of the predominantly American forces’ counter attack. However, the real hook with the standalone expansion is that, rather than following a set series of missions and a story that takes direct inspiration from historical events, it instead allows you to zoom out from the field of battle and take command of three separate companies of troops on a map of the whole region. ![]() It reveals the true plan behind creating the US Forces and Oberkommando West for that expansion, as it applies them to this new situation. Interestingly, Ardennes Assault is a single player only affair, following on from the multiplayer only The Western Front Armies. That’s not why Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault eschews the nickname though, that’s more down to the major departure that the game takes from the more traditional formula. In the 69 years since the end of the second world war, “Battle of the Bulge” has slowly but surely come to more commonly mean a man’s attempts to avoid having a beer gut, rather than the famous staving off of one of the last major assaults the Germans made.
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