
Though your natural inclination is likely to be conservative and hoard your precious resources, it may actually be best for new players to build units almost as fast as they can, aggressively moving forward, capturing new resource points, and experimenting with new unit types and strategies. Your Manpower, Munitions, and Fuel Resources are a delicate blend, and at the beginning of your Company of Heroes experience you’re going to be hard pressed to know what to do with them. Less obvious but perhaps even more important is the Strategic game, the number-crunching, load balancing aspect of resource management.

The Tactical game is obvious, comprising the battlefield flanking and maneuvering detailed through most of this wiki guide. These two games are interdependent, and you need to control and balance both well to achieve any regular success. There are two layers at work in Company of Heroes 2: the tactical and the strategic. Get ready to wage war with the original Company of Heroes 2 factions, the Soviet Army and the German Ostheer, in the original game!Īdditionally, for all you collectors out there, you'll be excited to hear that this update also sees the introduction of Steam Trading Cards.Īlongside these updates, we're running a massive Steam sale until 10 AM PDT on June 5th! All Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes 2 games and expansions will be 75% off, and all Company of Heroes 2 paid DLC will be 66% off.I've still got a long way to go before I master every intricacy of the game, but I thought I'd share a few tips I've picked up through the school of hard knocks to save my fellow players a little time and frustration. What's more, the incredible Eastern Front mod for Company of Heroes is now available on Steam. This means you can now play, share, and manage your subscriptions to custom scenarios without exiting the game, or manually installing files!

And we want to help that continue! That's why we have just updated the game with Steam Workshop capabilities and an in-game Workshop hub. Top class community content and modding have played a major part in the longevity of the original Company of Heroes.
