Author: True New Town Ash
Company of Heroes 3, as the latest sequel to Company of Heroes, has made refreshing innovations while retaining a generation of original systems, which takes into account both old players and broadens the audience of the game, and the game experience for new players is very good, but some old players may be disappointed.
preface
"Company of heroes 3" is a war strategy game produced by Relic Entertainment and published by Sega, as the latest sequel to Company of Heroes, this time we came to the beautiful Apennine Peninsula and hot North Africa to feel the cruelty and charm of war, this work added dynamic battle and tactical maps in the Apennine Peninsula, while focusing on the campaign while adding a strategic perspective, and in North Africa is the traditional Company of Heroes campaign, It is heartwarming to expand into new areas without forgetting old players.
Story and graphics, war and peace
The single-player campaign is divided into two lines: the Italian campaign and the North African campaign, which begins with the landing on the beautiful island of Sicily and gradually conquers and liberates the whole of Italy. The North African war regiment, on the other hand, adopts the mode of narration, introducing the task we are going to carry out from the perspective of a small person, and then highlighting the cruelty of war from the perspective of a small person.
Of course, in the African battlefield, we are mainly under the command of General Rommel as the desert fox to experience the mysterious desert and General Rommel's fascinating war art, the bond between the hero and his companions, famous and subordinates, thanks to the restoration and research of history by the hero company team, we can feel this period of history so truly, to experience and think.
The game's graphics are more delicate than the textures and models of the first generation, and the modeling of the scene is more refined, but it feels that the model can be refined, and some textures still feel that they are simply pasted without texture.
However, "it is safer to follow the local occupation forces" in the game; "to protect his family and participate in the Allied fight against the Germans"; "The British bombed the German-occupied area (the narrator's home), threatening the lives of the family"; "Who am I fighting with", these ordinary people's sense of powerlessness in war, how to maintain a home in a war situation, and even the confession that the occupying forces concentrated refugees in one area, but they could not do anything, made the author particularly touched and burst into tears.
We ourselves can actually not do anything, can only do to join the army to defend the country, a complete country is a solid shield, protect the family we can do everything well, can avoid war to avoid, really we go to simulate war to feel the war deconstruction war, but the ultimate purpose is to avoid preventing and eliminating war, anti-war is always the main theme of war games, I really don't understand war madmen, maybe war can really destroy what we love, Some people want to destroy, and most of us want to keep and cherish it.
Introduction to game modes and factions
This work mainly adds a new mode of dynamic map, adding a strategic perspective on the basis of the original skirmish, similar to the setting of war chess, players gradually control Italy through the strategy map. In the strategy map, players can experience the sense of command of unifying the three armies, and can experience units that cannot be used in encounters, such as naval units are mainly used for landing on the beachhead and bombing enemy fortifications, and players can also choose to buy land combat units to transport from naval units to the battlefield.
Different wings have different skill trees that can be unlocked by gaining experience, and each company has two skill trees that do not interfere with each other. For the capture of the city, if it is a city without a shield, the infantry unit can walk over and click to occupy, if there is a shield indicating that the defense is strong, a unit and bombing can eliminate the shield, the shield can be occupied after elimination, and bombing the city may lead to random events such as fires and the like, you need to stay in the unit to extinguish the fire, and the player's impact on the city can be seen in the skirmish mode, and the player can unlock the shipyard by capturing the port city.
In addition, players can purchase air units when they capture airports, which can provide multi-directional support. Airdrop refills restore a unit's action points and HP, while the player's strategic approach affects the loyalty of individual commanders when dialogue and choices are triggered. When players use units to attack enemy units, in addition to fixed mission points, they can choose automatic battles, which also greatly reduces the dependence on operations and gives players a relatively friendly experience.
The game's skirmish mode mainly relies on manpower, fuel, ammunition three resources and population cap, can be divided into victory point and annihilation two modes, in the occupancy mode relatively fast-paced, to ensure that their own victory points are not exhausted while encouraging players to intersperse battles, while annihilation mode encourages outsiders to destroy the enemy, so you can limit enemy resources at a fast pace, or slow pace to engage in tug-of-war and develop heavy units. At the same time, players can use cover, buildings, etc. to carry out tactical movements to improve the defense and attack accuracy of the unit.
From the author's point of view, the game's AI feels a lot smarter, and in some campaigns you can even adjust different strategies according to your strength level, just take the same mission, under the premise that our anti-tank firepower is insufficient or even weak, the enemy's tank unit chooses to take the initiative to attack, and when the player re-performs this task to ensure that the anti-tank unit is sufficient, the enemy chooses to hold on and use multiple waves of minions to harass.
In order to reduce the difficulty of the player's operation, some automatic modes and tactical pauses have been specially added, automatic modes can help you supplement troops to support a class, to prevent you from saying that the soldiers retreated, and go home to see that there is no treatment for such a situation, while tactical pauses allow you to judge the situation more calmly and give instructions to multiple units.
Players can choose four factions in this game, namely the US Army, the Defense Force, the Afrika Korps and the British Army. First of all, the US military, as a backbone role, has relatively strong mechanical power and attack power, which is suitable for interspersed and occupied points in the early stage. Among them, the author's favorite is the M24 Xiafei tank, although it is a light tank, but the firepower is fast enough, accompanying the infantry to clean up the enemy is a good hand, the most famous of the superior unit of the US army is the Free Rocket Sherman tank, the top of which carries a rocket launcher to make it invincible. (Pictures of the Xiafei tank / rocket Sherman that require the Xiafei tank can also be found on the equipment page)
The British army was mainly supported by strong firepower and experienced crews who could be committed at any time of the war. Choose Indian artillery support, British naval and air coordination and other technology trees, all have good firepower, and the British army's heavy armor is absolutely thick, which can withstand the blows of various shells for you.
Secondly, the Wehrmacht is well-equipped for mid-to-late development, of which the No. 4 tank personally feels the best, (here you need the picture of the No. 4 tank) can attack and defend the armor is thick, as a senior Defu, the whirlwind anti-aircraft artillery in the game is my favorite weapon of destruction.
The Afrika Korps, on the other hand, is known for its wide variety of armored units that can perform some peculiar maneuvers with more strategic matching. One of the most refreshing things for me is that you can use the tank repair vehicle to perform magical repairs on the wreckage of the vehicle, and you can also get enemy vehicles in this way, which is a great tool for some players who are obsessed with multi-faction weapon cooperation.
summary
Company of Heroes 3, as the latest sequel to Company of Heroes, has made refreshing innovations while retaining the original system of a generation. The Company of Heroes series has always done a good job of destroying units, including ricochets, main gun damage, engine damage, etc., which is very conducive to the simulation and substitution of scenes and units, but the original very suppressive machine gun feels much smaller in this work, I don't know why, although the effect is similar but there is no smell. In general, this game takes into account both old players and broadens the audience of the game, and this new bottle of wine feels a little delicious, I hope everyone can experience it.