Nice try, but history, spam, and resource points don't mix.
Despite its "epic" advertising and hype, company of heroes fails to live up to it. It's essence engine is the essence of CPU usage, and the seen-it-before gameplay leaves you bored and disinterested after a few runs through. Sure, replayability is guaranteed through physics, but the model isn't even really that detailed. It's almost too familiar to dawn of war players, those resource points seem to just be a little more absurd and in even more stupid locations. At least you didn't feel like something was wrong when you ordered your soldiers to capture a requisition point in DoW, but ordering a squad of WWII soldiers to capture an "AMMUNITION POINT" in the middle of a farm field just makes me laugh. I really start to feel awful whenever i see my rifleman squad charging up to a few meters away from a volksgrenadier squad and watching the two of them fail miserably at basic marksmanship. Rifles like the m1 garand and k98 could hit a target very accurately at up to 300 meters; the K98 was designed for 800-900 meter engagements. So why in God's name are my soldiers missing? Because we get random number generators, oh and balance. Yeah that's totally right, random number generators really mess this game up online. Take snipers for example, the most tactical of all the early infantry combat troops. Well guess what? Your sniper's chances of hitting mine are completely random, but once he misses, mine might (most likely will) pop him off in a single shot, and then he'll be free to harass your MG's which are guarding a VERY crucial early objective. This completely ruins the fun of the game, why play slots whenever you want to influence the game with tactics and strategy. Truth be told there's very little of that in this game, but the hype, sound (excellent sound by the way) and graphics have really lured a lot of people to believe that it is much better than it is. To add to the mess, Relic might as well have said : "Historical accuracy can kiss our behinds." whenever they began development, because this game is terrible in that respect. Just look at it, crocodile shermans which weren't even used (if so they were incredibly obscure) on the western front, shermans that can deflect tiger rounds from a foot away, riflemen with sticky bombs that destroy tanks, bazookas failing to penetrate lightly armored StuGs (and knocking them out), panzerfausts (which could penetrate up to 200mm of armor) failing to even lightly damage a sherman. Woah, I'm already exhausted, but the list just goes on and on! Troops that can barely shoot, paratroopers that magically reinforce, tanks that cannot shoot both armor piercing and anti-tank rounds, and AT guns that shoot HEAP (magical HEAP too) until they're ordered to fire magic AT rounds that can penetrate a Tiger and Panther with ease. I mean come ON, it's a friggin 50 millimeter gun, that thing couldn't penetrate a tiger from 100 meters for christ's sake, I don't care what type of shell you're using! To top it off, the AI really sucks. This so called intelligent AI leeches control of my soldiers and sends them hurrying in the direction of my enemy, moves them out of the cover i sent them behind, and generally makes a mess of things (to make it worse there are no stance settings). The AI is so bad that a tank will turn to face a point 20 meters behind it whenever an enemy tank is engaging it, thus exposing its incredibly vulnerable rear to enemy fire. That's pathetic, these kinds of failures are simply unacceptable from a big company like Relic Entertainment, and I feel those who purchased this game (along with me) got slapped in the face without even knowing it. You would've been better off buying Dark Crusade, or Medieval 2. If WWII was an unsettleable need, maybe Faces of War, but it has its game killers as well (and boy they're bad bugs until you patch).