Company of Russians!

There's this latest game I've been playing lately, it's called "Company of Heroes"

Company of Heroes 2, is as great a World War II itself, with the player acting as a role of an Allied Russian Captain. It's a big, and robust game. This is one of the very few strategy games Iv'e played, that really uses strategy. I'll go in detail on why is it like that. For instance is, players can command the squads to move behind cover, defend something, bombard a location, repair a vehicle,
hide inside a building, build variety of defensive materials, merge with a squad and pick up vehicles. It's not that game, where players build a huge massive army and just assault the enemy full headed, and just watch then sway their swords as they overwhelm the opponent with their mass numbers. So far, I found the game really time consuming as, it will

really use your time to think, "what will happen in the battlefield" or "how will I control the battle". It all
depends in how one positions his/her squads and how well the squads is organized. When something wrong happens in the battlefield, the player will really notice his/her error,"what he/she would have did 3minutes ago to prevent losses of squads"

As for the negative, well the game usually freezes every 30 minutes (although it was probably caused by Auto Save). The mouse turns into a bar code sometimes, that even when a player leaves the game, the mouse stays as a bar code, and I find it really inconvenient. Lastly is, well, on behalf of Russians. Isn't it kinda offensive how Russia in the game (Russians are protagonist by the way) are portrait as a very brutal nation? Like, when Russian soldiers retreat for their lives are shot by their own allies, because they say its cowardice. I am not into "full" history of Russia, true that Joseph Stalin, did ordered the shooting of his own troops, for some good reason, but it might be over portrayed in the game.


Here are some videos, of my playing Company of Heroes 2

Sniper, taking position for recon and taking out a squad, in preparation for an assault

A battle, to capture a vital location, after sniper's role in taking out guards.