Company of Heroes 3

released on Feb 23, 2023

The legendary strategy franchise is back! Company of Heroes 3 is the ultimate package of action, tactics and strategy. Take charge in the heat of real-time battle, then command as a General guiding the overall campaign where every decision matters. ​ Overwhelm your opponents with new and familiar factions, units, and international Battlegroups. Command ground, air and naval forces and build supply lines to crush enemy advances on the new Dynamic Campaign Map - no two playthroughs are ever alike! Play at your own pace across campaign and skirmish modes before diving into blistering multiplayer action. Discover the untold stories of a stunning Mediterranean theatre, featuring next generation destructible environments, all powered by Relic's proprietary Essence Engine.


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Company of Heroes 3 is an ambitious and enjoyable step forwards that doesn't entirely click together. The series' aggressive tactical action is refined and enjoyable, and tactical pause is a welcome addition for players with slower reflexes. Missions don't quite hit the highs of previous titles, though there are many more to play through in the form of special scenarios and generated skirmishes.

The new strategic game mode is especially interesting in how it frames the action and adds a layer of choice, but is unfortunately overcomplicated for what it is, without significant challenge or pressure compared to other 'paint the map' types of games. I'm yet to play multiplayer, but I've enjoyed my time with Company of Heroes 3 as a solo experience, and can recommend it as a casual world war two themed RTS.

It's been quite a while since I last played a Company of Heroes game and it feels good to have a more modern one. When I said modern, I of course mean graphically and technologically, since the gameplay is more or less the same as in the older titles. Which isn't a bad thing at all since the gameplay is what made CoH 1 & 2 so damn fun in the first place. I thought the new grand Italian campaign was really fun and opened up the game for new levels of strategy. I'm a strong believer in that giving the player lots of options goes a long way when it comes to making fun strategy games and the new grand campaign offers just that.

However the usefulness vary greatly between all these new tools that are at your disposal. The navy was a nice edition to offer naval bombardments during battles, but other than that it wasn't really worth recruiting ships since the AI doesn't have a strong navy anyway. Airplanes was nice as well for bombing the enemy, just like with the navy. The different emplacements though was complete garbage. They were designed to be defensive weapons in a campaign where you are constantly on the offensive. So they were always out of range and cost to much movement points to reposition all the time. I never really bothered with them and it didn't impact my campaign or experience in the slightest.

I also feel like the campaign was perhaps a little to long. There's a lot of settlements and about half of them was just regular skirmish battles that grew stale after about half the campaign. Especially since you pretty much played with the same roster over and over again. I would've liked there to be a few more story based missions to break up a lot of the monotony that comes from playing regular skirmish battles over and over again. Or at least one or two other forms of skirmishes where you could for example assault a heavily fortified position or something. I was also surprised when the final battle didn't turn out to be Rome itself, which caught me off guard and felt somewhat anti-climactic. The North Africa campaign was fine but not that exciting in the end. It's just 8 story missions that you can play through pretty quickly since a lot of them aren't really that difficult.

I didn't try the multiplayer because I usually prefer to play against people I know and none of my friends currently own this game. But overall it offers a pretty solid, albeit slightly flawed single-player experience that I don't regret playing, but I will probably never play through it again. It's really just a nice single-serving Company of Heroes experience that you consume and then discard afterwards. Perhaps I will pick it up again if they offer a new campaign or if I decide to try out the multiplayer. But from what I've seen of their current dlc plans, I won't be holding my breath anytime soon.

The campaign is what made me drop this game.

For some reason theres a bug where the AI and my own stacks of armies have become god mode aka they won't die.

I can legit run over to the very last mission monte cassino due to it. Btw you would think Rome would be the last but no its a flipping cutscene.

Pathfinding is terrible also.. tanks cannot find and fire at targets unless they're within 1 inch

Plus the campaign is just boring.. I appreciate what they went for grand map wise but its poorly delivered.

I have a lot of CoH nostalgia. I played a ton of 1 + 2, it's probably my second favorite RTS ever behind Starcraft.

3 Delivered on making me feel young and having more of a gameplay that I have loved. However the single player offering this go around feels rather weak. The Italian campaign is a brand new game mode that felt a little long and not too challenging. The Afrika game mode was uninspired with some quick and slumpy maps. All in all, it is only 8 missions in Afrika which can be completed in an afternoon.

CoH is here to play online as an RTS and that part does still thrive. Happy to have a modern version. Well, mostly modern. The UI of the menu is pretty... not awesome :D