![]() This test review should let you know whether they’ve done a good job of packing this momentous engagement into an RTS game. ![]() What has gone down in history as the “Battle of the Bulge” involved over a million men on the Allied side, making it one of the largest and most costly land battles involving the US Army in the Second World War. Historically, the purpose of the Third Reich’s Ardennes Offensive was to weaken the Allied forces along the Belgian border with a surprise attack and to recapture the port of Antwerp. Relic Entertainment’s latest offering, Ardennes Assault, however, is a single-player campaign featuring the dense snow-covered forests and rugged terrain of the borderlands between France, the Low Countries, and Germany. The first standalone expansion to Company of Heroes 2, The Western Front Armies, focused on multiplayer gameplay. Language(s) : English full localization for German, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish interface and subtitles for Italian, Czech Combined with the Iron Man lock, this makes Ardennes Assault particularly tricky.Developer/Publisher : Relic Entertainment/Sega ![]() ![]() Hell, moving through enemy territory on the strategy map (which you’re often forced to do in order to engage somebody) will cost you some. Even a successful mission where you’re diligent about healing up wounded squads and lose relatively few troops will cost you a fair bit of strength. Missions can be attempted multiple times, but each of your three companies has limited strength and this depletes as you undertake military actions. It was refreshing to be able to screw up like that, but this expansion is also pretty heavy-handed in the way it applies attrition to your forces. ![]() My first efforts floundered around two-thirds in and the rest of my review time has been spent replaying earlier missions to see whether Relic’s claims about dynamic structure hold water. As a result of that I haven’t seen every single mission this expansion has to offer, because I’ve not yet made it through the full thing. Just as in XCOM, this means you can reach a point in Ardennes Assault where you simply have no chance of progressing and may as well restart. ![]()
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