Anyway, start looking for our new issue soon. It's not really a Peggle cover. It's one of those "exclusive" stories---this time about the followup to Relic's awesome Company of Heroes. Guess what? We get to kill more Nazis again!! Yay! Them shitz never gets old, knowhumsayin?Now the question remains. Battle of the Bulge or Operation Marget Garden (CoH:OMG for the win)? The paratrooper in me hopes for CoH:OMG. Thanks to Sacer for the heads up.
Company of Heroes Expansion?
Posted in Company of Heroes by ÃœberJumper on March 26th, 2007
Looks like we just got official confirmation of a Company of Heroes Expansion.
Jeff Green at 1up posted a small blurb about their upcoming exclusive about Relic's follow up to Company of Heroes. Should be on shelves soon.
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Posted by hermes at March 26th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Stalingrad ? Nazi vs Russian… :)
Posted by ceejayoz at March 26th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
You left out the “fighting the alien Nazis in Antarctica” possibility.
Posted by ÃœberJumper at March 26th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Logically it wouldn’t be Soviets or Japanese. There’d be too much work to do to create art assets and maps for a soviet or far east expansion. Logistically, it makes the most sense for it to be the Battle of the Bulge, as you’d not have to add any additional “races” to the game. You would have to create a lot of “winterish” art assets though.
However, Relic’s added a race in every expansion product they’ve ever made, so my money would be on adding in commonwealth units (British and Canadian) as they fought through the same terrain the US units did in the Normandy Campaign. It makes the most sense to have any expansion set in the same season or as close as possible (June 44 = late spring, September 44 = late summer) as CoH, so my Money’s on Operation Market Garden.
Posted by Commander_Baker at March 27th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
i have been waiting forever to hear this. i would like to see new races, and definetly the bulge. also it would be pretty tight to custamize basic squads like in DoW. and heroes…lets see some leaders and morale effects. though the this cant get any more amazing really!!
Posted by Someguy at March 27th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Maybe they’re going to do Company of Heroes: The Outfit! Hero units!!!
Posted by Gremlin_Shoota at March 27th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Um… the link to 1Up is broken… :S
Posted by Commander_Baker at March 27th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
yeah same i cant find it:(
Posted by Sacer at March 27th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
cool, i got me some front page goodness.
Posting stuff is better then lurking around like i normally do anyway so no need for the thanks ;)
Posted by ÃœberJumper at March 28th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Try the link now…
Posted by Equilibrium at March 29th, 2007 at 5:56 am
Well this is a good news… But I prefere an Eastern Front Campaign :(
Hopefully this time I can play not only with USA and with the Axis too in singleplayer :)
Posted by PanzergrenadierSS at March 29th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
CoH: Italian Campaign! Battle your way through pittoresque italian villages and vinyards! Yeeey!
Posted by Jiffy at March 29th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I would be so happy to see an Axis single player campaign. and new races…Italian, Russian, Japanese, British…it would be amazing
Posted by ceejayoz at March 30th, 2007 at 1:26 am
And lose, against even the dinkiest of countries. :-p
Hell, the Ethiopians even drove ‘em off. Only African nation to keep out their designated imperialist lords, IIRC.
Posted by Bla at March 30th, 2007 at 3:59 am
YAY! Best news for me, I will preorder right away! Any new race would be awesome! I think chances are good since the DOW add ons had new races in all their expansions!
Posted by GQMarkDawg at March 31st, 2007 at 3:20 am
I hope it’s a battle in the pacific I want battle ships and CV’s yeah.
Posted by Carlos Mollat at March 31st, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I would also be happy to see an
Axis single player campaign and new races: Italian, Russian, Japanese and British…like what Jiffy posted on March 29th, 2007 at 11:03 pm.
cmollat
Posted by Go at March 31st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Finland vs Russia would have been sweet.
Since they are also on different sides of the war.
Posted by NITROJ at April 1st, 2007 at 8:24 pm
i’ d like to have russian im the next expansion…so I can kill american and comunist together…COH have to follow Panzer “rush to berlin”..
Posted by Gauge at April 2nd, 2007 at 5:37 am
What is the planned release date?
Posted by Patric at April 2nd, 2007 at 7:23 am
I think if they made a campaigh in north afirca it would realy work you could a brtain and italy or do opration market garden in which the axis beat the allies back would a good axis campaigh.
Posted by ÃœberJumper at April 2nd, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I think we should be hearing more this week.
Posted by PathosAngelos at April 2nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
If it is Operation Market Garden, then I hope to see an Axis campaign included this time around.
Posted by ÃœberJumper at April 2nd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Either OMG or tBotB would provide an opportunity for an Axis (German) campaign.
Posted by LTSE at April 3rd, 2007 at 8:46 am
Uberjumper,
Relic has a decent track record of releasing new races with expansions. I really hope you’re wrong, because I am dying to have a soviet race included. Relic could make me very happy by including a soviet expansion with a german campaign and a soviet counter-campaign.
It sounds like a lot, but they’ve done it for DoW. Heres hoping they do it for CoH.
Posted by dflament at April 4th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Its named opposing fronts and it means the Western front (france, etc…) and the Eastern front (Russia, etc..)
WEST - EAST -> opposite of each other
its a German paratrooper on the picture.
Russian expansion coming boys…
Posted by ÃœberJumper at April 4th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
It’s the British and Panzer Elite.
No russians, no Japanese.
Posted by Epilon at April 6th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Awww, no East…oh well it would have been too much work anyways to have it released this year. Relic seems to be aproaching this in a much different manner than they do dawn of war. Still I can’t help but imagine how much fun it could have been fighting in Stalingrad–hell they could have a good number of missions just in that one city.
Posted by boredkid at April 11th, 2007 at 3:36 am
id like to see pacific or battle of the bulge. its probably battle of the bulge since germany used lots of paras in it . pacific would be cool as well with australia america and japan.
Posted by PanzergrenadierSS at April 14th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
ceejayoz at March 30th, 2007 at 1:26 am, wrote:
“And lose, against even the dinkiest of countries. :-p
Hell, the Ethiopians even drove ‘em off. Only African nation to keep out their designated imperialist lords, IIRC.“
Helloooo… The Germans gave the Allies a helluva beating during the fighting in Italy - the italian forces fled like chickens, I know, but remember Monte Cassino, for instance. Italian campaign would have been great!
Posted by boredkid at April 16th, 2007 at 2:00 am
it should add on a german faction the ss troops instead of the main german army
Posted by boredkid at April 16th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I’ve found out that it adds on the british and the panzer elite which is a motorised type of the german army. I also found out that it is a sequel not an expansion. so you dont have to own the original coh but if you do it adds on the original maps, campaign and races.
Posted by Moe at April 17th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
No, it’s an expansion, not a sequel.
Posted by Tuxedo12 at April 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
I’d love to see they add some new vehicles too. Preferably something in the sea rather than land. Like submarines, ships and so on. It’d be good if there’s an addition of airfield so planes can be called from the mainbase instead of only the assisting bombing or strafing run called when playing the Paratrooper command.
Posted by Henx125 at April 27th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I think it would be auesome if they brought in naval and more races, but I doubt they will do that. Mabey (If they come out with it and I don’t see why not)they will introduce that stuff in CoH2… By the way, planes are a pretty cool idea. Somthing other than just tanks vs infantry and in the end tanks are almost absolutly nessasary to win would add a nice litte twist to the game. I really don’t care what they come out with in the expansion, so long as it doesn’t take to long to come out and the campaign and new features are worth the money.
Posted by PAnzerfaust at April 28th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I don’t care as long as they bring out fallschrimjager for the germans.
Posted by Dean at May 5th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I thinks they seriously need to consider adding Russians, Japanese, all of the Allied and Axis powers into the Fray. There should be an awesome Pacific Campaign, An Eastern Campaign, and a Western Campaign. Maybe put on a big world map to see where you’re fighting next, eh? Like, showing where you are all fighting in the battles according to the Campaign, or maybe to change the history of the whole war. Who knows? maybe Germany will win the war this time.
Posted by Boris at May 13th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I can pay anything to see fallschirmjager in the game, because
it sucks to be beaten every time by the american airborne :(
Posted by dr NO at May 15th, 2007 at 12:49 am
will the russians be a playable race
they were at one point an enemy to both sides
Posted by dr NO at May 15th, 2007 at 12:50 am
also the germans had air power to, i mean you cant dieny the luftwafa
Posted by kingbread at May 16th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
i wish it was american, russian,british, chinese vs nips, jerries, and maybe some other country or just keep it at that. i also like naval and air units, in some sort of game like supreme commander. BUT… its not
its like this smerican and british vs german werchamt(or something like that) and the panzer elites. thats what the expansion is.
Posted by Akiman at May 18th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Russian is a must… where’s su122’s kvIa’s joseph stalins :D
japanese would be fun too…need more multiplayer maps for sure :)
…who made shermans that powerful? :) and who made tigers that weak? O_O bwahahaha sad but truee :D
Posted by Thomas at May 23rd, 2007 at 3:16 am
I hope to see the Konigstiger. With that type of tank, death to all who stands before it.
Posted by Kraagesh at May 23rd, 2007 at 9:10 am
Iam waiting for more types of defensive stuff, like AT mines and AP mines, also mines that lie in an wooden crate that minedetectors cant find. Waiting for more types of machineguns used by germans also
Posted by Cleedy2 at May 27th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Its british and a new german faction. “Panzer Elite” English get trenches and AA!
Posted by Garr at June 1st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
omg trenches would own so much :D iv always been playin skirmish thinking ” this would be better if it was a trench” also they should sort out the tanks wtf is up with a tiger ace being beaten by a yank at?? their sheilds dont take damage!!!!!
Posted by Andy at June 4th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Its the British, who comes. End of discusion. Ive seen pictures
Posted by Moe at June 4th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Well, duh. When this was originally posted there was no confirmation.
Posted by Mountaineer at June 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Italian campaign would be sweet because a lot of the fighting there was done by the 10thMountain division. Would be cool to see Mountain Infantry.
Posted by Paul at July 9th, 2007 at 8:08 am
i dont think they should add naval like a lot of you want as maps ar to small to have battle ships etc in tho it would be quite cool to have little boats (inflatable (cant spell sry) )
for units so you could go across small rivers etc with out solging over a bridge and getting slaughted by mg fire. sry started talking about mg fire i was just think of band of brothers thats all :) (and i hope youre all ryt about british joining the game yipeee thought i hope they put british tanks in and not the ones the americans gave us)
Posted by RetiarySword at July 13th, 2007 at 3:53 am
What about the commandoes, like the polish and norway evacuees. They were all about sabotage! Could be a laugh?
Posted by Vojislav at August 2nd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I would only suggest that German units should speak German language,not English with German accent,lol
Posted by Vojislav at August 2nd, 2007 at 4:27 pm
And it would be cool if we had a German campaign.
Posted by Allied Juggernaught at November 19th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Hey if Company of Heroes is going to remain in Europe why the hell havent we seen some dirty russians yet!? T-34’s and their swarm tactics. Lets change gears and head east no?
Posted by Helixteh1st at March 18th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Hey it looks like the majority wants a Russian expansion, soo how bout it,go make Company of heroes: Eastern fronts or something like that.
Posted by COHplayer at March 20th, 2008 at 11:24 am
PLEASE RUSSIAN expansion would be great, I have asked all my friends and they all want russian more than anything. :)
Posted by Simmo at April 12th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I would also like to see a Soviet expansion.
I’d also like to clear this up for anyone else who reads this, the Russians were not focused on SWARM TACTICS! Sure they had numerical superiority in total number of enlisted men, but in most operations the numerical strength fielded by each side was very close. The only components in which the soviets vastly outnumbered their foe was in armour (about 2 to 1) and heavy guns (about 3 to 1). Only after a battle was it truely evident of Soviet manpower superiority.
So, if Relic is paying attention to these posts I would like them to make note of what I have put in.
That said, here are my ideas for a Soviet expansion: Infantry- Similar to America in Vanilla CoH versatile and cheaper than thier German counterparts. Vehicles- Relativly mobile and resilient, though damage dealt to tougher German tanks (Panthers, Tigers and vet3 Panzers) is limited. Support Waepons (AT Guns, Mortars, etc)- MGs and Mortars wouldBe identical to the other factions, though the AT guns would be non-existant, this role be instead filled by SU-76.
Command Tree 1 Armour (obviously)
One side would focus on abilities to strengthen and enhance the other side of the tree, which would give the player access to (say) T-34/85, SU-85 and finally culminating with an IS-2 “Josef Stalin” Tank.
Command Tree 2 Guards
This tree would focus on solid infantry, with of the the first chioces being the ability to call on Crack Guards infantry, similar in squad size to grenadiers though tougher and more costly. The rest of the tree would be a couple of passive infantry enhancements and two acitves, and one last artillery strike.
Command Tree 3 Support
This tree would focus on artillery strikes (1 Katushya rocket stike which hits fast with moderate damage, and 1 12cm stike, which takes a bit linger to arrive and has fewer hits, but hits very hard) munitions resource enhancement and self propelled guns like the SU-100 and a single SU-152 “Zveroboy” (Beast-Killer) like the Jagdpanther for the Panzer elite.