Better are the following several missions, which have your paratroopers setting ambushes and overrunning fortifications. It’s a Saving Private Ryan-inspired meat-grinder, but not an interesting challenge. On Omaha Beach, there’s no opportunity for flanking, combined arms, armor, or much use of tactical cover.
It’s not totally unintuitive, and there’s sometimes different ways to do the same thing (you can multi-select squads in the squad list as well) but it’s definitely a kludgy version of the PC original left-click/right-click/double-click/drag controls.Īs a mid-aughts World War II game, Company of Heroes begins with the requisite D-Day beach level, which isn’t the best showcase for its strengths. Placing landmines means bringing up the wheel menu, selecting mines one layer down, tapping and dragging across the area you want the mines, and then confirming the order in a popup box. Aiming a machine gun emplacement is a double tap-and-drag. Pulling up a selection box to grab more than one unit on the map requires a double-tap with two fingers followed by a drag. The controls can be sometimes troublesome. For the mobile version, you can use a convenient popup wheel to make specific orders You can easily handle your squads by tapping a few icons in the squad list rather than seeking out tiny gray-brown soldiers on a gray-brown map. Just by being squad-based, giving orders using fat dumb fingers rather than precision mouse clicks is made much easier. There are a lot of ways Company of Heroes makes an ideal mobile strategy game. You get more requisition points by taking objectives, you reinforce and upgrade your units in the field, and the Germans provide constant resistance. There’s none of the tedious resource-gathering and base-building that you’ll find in those games more directly influenced by Warcraft.
It focuses tightly on World War II tactics: you control a handful of squads rather than a whole army as they attempt to take back the hedgerows of northern France in the Battle of Normandy. If you’ve got an iPad and you love real-time strategy, Company of Heroes might be the game for you.
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