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. It’s possible to save mid-mission and pick up from where you left off, but you’re still limited to a single save. But I had to double and triple check that this was the only way of playing Ardennes.
Games like XCOM are great to play in Iron Man mode. The reason? Ardennes Assault is an Iron Man campaign with one rolling save. HOT COH2 TIP: Don’t be in this situation. Sure, they’ll learn some of this on-the-fly as they play, through tooltips and experimentation, but Ardennes Assault isn’t particularly forgiving of learning through failure. Nor subtleties like the Major being able to act as a retreat point for troops. Someone coming fresh to this expansion is going to have no idea about unlocking different strands of units by recruiting the Lieutenant, Captain and Major figures.
It’s a bit like somebody teaching chess by explaining how the Bishops and Pawns move, then shrugging and assuming you’re good to go.
You’re given a tutorial mission, which teaches a few tricks and commander abilities from each of Ardennes Assault’s three playable companies (support, paratrooper and mechanised,) but neglects to explain a whole lot of others. Since that’s basically an impossible balancing act, it’s not really a surprise that Ardennes Assault doesn’t handle it all that well. Ardennes Assault effectively has to cater to three tiers of people: those who’ve played everything up to now, those who aren’t familiar with the US troops, and those for whom this expansion is their first Company of Heroes 2 experience. The campaign’s playable US Forces have previously been introduced through multiplayer DLC, but not everyone will have played this. Hurrah.Īrdennes’ existence as a stand-alone purchase also presents an obstacle in how much prior knowledge Relic can assume of the player. The town is saved! And only partially destroyed in the process.
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