boot camp
In partnership with Sega, we’ve created Boot Camp, a series of articles and videos showcasing new features and tactical considerations for Company of Heroes 3.
Typical. After ten years of waiting for a new Company of Heroes campaign, two are coming at once. That’s right, Company of Heroes 3 stacks the double helping of single-player strategy into your chaos, allied and Axis powers as the game follows the front lines of World War II around Italy and North Africa. But these campaigns don’t just tell separate stories on both sides of the Mediterranean, they take place in completely different ways. I’m looking for a single-player service for Company of Heroes 3, so follow me with your binoculars.
The first is the Italian campaign. The campaign takes the game’s signature real-time battles and seeds an epic turn-based strategy map all-new for Company of Heroes. First staging in Sicily From his point, he personally leads the invasion of the Italian peninsula. Recruit companies of soldiers, seize Italian towns, ports and airports, build fortifications, establish supply lines, direct them to support your advance by air and sea, and reach your ultimate goal: liberation. Head north. Rome.
Of course, the Nazis won’t welcome your arrival with an espresso and a slice of pizza. and fight the Wehrmacht for control of its territory. These battles are not randomized and are directly influenced by the campaign map situation. If the battle takes place within range of a howitzer battery you have built, you can use that artillery to your advantage to bombard enemy positions during combat. Nearby companies can also lend out units and abilities to their allies for that particular battle, strengthening each other.
Similarly, the outcome of combat can influence broader strategic approaches. Goals are issued by the Strategy Advisor during the campaign. Completing this increases their loyalty to you and unlocks bonus abilities. Either follow General Buckram’s ambitious plans to improve air support, listen to British General Norton’s more conservative advice and improve naval capabilities, or spy on Italy in exchange for access to his network. You can help the partisans.
These dynamic systems are the backbone of customized missions that occur at key moments during the campaign, such as the capture of major towns like Salerno or notable historical battles like the Battle of Monte Cassino. threaded along. But even these more scripted encounters could play out differently, depending on whether you’re bringing American paratroopers or British artillery into combat, and the resources needed to support them. there is.
Italy represents a very different take on campaign design in Company of Heroes, but if you’re craving classic single-player strategy, the North Africa operation is for you. In this campaign, you’ll be in the driver’s seat of Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Legion as the Desert Fox tries to drive the British out of the continent. The campaign’s series of missions represent some of the most notable events of his campaign in Africa, such as the Battle of Alamein and the Battle of Gazala. Port of Tobruk.
While the mission focuses on the successes and failures of Rommel and his Afrika Legion, the story of the campaign points a different path. Through letters between Salima and her father, who is fighting Rommel with the British, we hear about the impact the war had on Salima’s life and the people of North Africa at large. As Rommel’s forces blaze a trail of doom in Libya and Egypt, the campaign is constantly on the lookout for the war’s impact on the local population.
Maintaining the essence of the game while introducing new ideas has always been one of the toughest challenges in sequel design, and every developer has a unique approach to this problem. Relic’s solution for Company of Heroes 3 is simple.
