Relic's "Western Front Armies" join Company of Heroes 2

They should have done the African front with the Afrika Korps/ Italians and Commonwealth.
The eastern front has been done to death.

The western front can be the african front as well. We still might see desert maps and TOW with the new armies, but they will never add African armies. That would basically limit them to pre 1943 tech and they wouldn't be able to have enough options to balance the late war tank the current four factions have.

same old stuff, they say nothing new

I think this expansion has huge potential to kill the competitive side of CoH 2 for a long time if not for good.

^ Great. Maybe the rest of us can get on with enjoying the game without having to listen to the 'pros' psychodrama about DLC, balance and all the rest of it.

^ Great. Maybe the rest of us can get on with enjoying the game without having to listen to the 'pros' psychodrama about DLC, balance and all the rest of it.

You realize that having a balanced, competitive game is healthy for the long term success of the game right? That doesn't mean the game can't be fun for casuals as well.

Yeah, I'll get this. Hell, it will get me playing CoH2 again anyways.

the only thing I have a problem with here is the faction mixing, I like the WW2 setting and mixing allied armies in combat that only met for a brief handshake and fought in different areas of the world is a bit much for me, a bit like the soviets defending iwo jima against the Brits.

I hope its only going to happen in custom team games and not in automatch.

alternatively they could have a historical mode tick box in auto to disable it for those who prefer the WW2 setting rather than a ''what if'' scenario every game.

I'm fine with the axis side mixing factions just not allies that fought on different fronts.

Ive also never understood why when it seems easy to produce another Axis faction why they didn't just produce another soviet faction, it could have been called say ''Siberian Division East'' and have been a more well equipped professional but smaller Soviet army with better and heavier equipment at its core, that would have been fun.

Since the 1939 border fighting with Japan, Stalin had maintained a powerful army in Siberia. The importance of this well-equipped and trained force increased as the Wehrmacht smashed whole armies. The German destroyed a substantial part of the Red Army as Barbarossa unfolded, in part because Stalin had ordered them to take forward positions along the frontier. With the onset of Typhoon and the NAZI drive on Moscow, the need for fresh troops became critical if Moscow was to be saved. A German journalist, Richard Sorge, in Japan was a secret Soviet agent. He reported that Japan had decided not to attack the Soviet Union and had opted to strike south (early October). Here President Roosevelt's strong position against Japanese aggression was a critical factor. Sorge's report can be over emphasized. During War countries receive all kinds of reports. How could the Soviets be sure Sorge was correct or for that matter trustworthy. After all Stalin before Barbarossa had ignored numerous reports warning him of the coming NAZI invasion. It is likely that Stalin had other sources of information. Of course another factor was the desperate military situation that made up Stalin's mind. The Siberian divisions were well-trained and equipped and accustomed to operating in winter weather. The Soviets rushed about 40 divisions west to participate in the defence of Moscow. They were to serve as a critical element in Zhukov's counter offensive.

Good luck with that argument GenMe.
I tried that with people around here when I complained about mirror matches being un-authentic during the retail beta and I got shouted down.

Good luck with that argument GenMe.
I tried that with people around here when I complained about mirror matches being un-authentic during the retail beta and I got shouted down.

plz tell me mirror matches aren't in automatch, that would totally destroy the games entire design.

I love the idea of the western front armies but mixing allied factions that never met in combat is just such a horrible idea, makes a total joke out of the game.

Wait a minute, is the first part of the video is dedicated to relic giving advices on how to handle a game as a developer ? WWAHAHHAHAHHHAHHA OMG STOP THIS RELIC, OTHER DEVELOPERS DONT LISTEN

I mean, who can stay calm watching those two ... explaining to you that they put MICROS IN THE HATCH OF THE TANK instead of fixing game breaking problems... They know where they can put their mics.