Comparison to Company of Heroes?

[AgentFlea]

I love CoH. Especially all it's micro tactics and strategic options.

I'm wonder if this game has the same type of Micro and "Unit positioning" gameplay...
or if it's more about economy/outspamming (zerg rush) the enemy position.

I'll be looking more into this game but curious to hear from someone who has played both
I'm on the fence about this due to the fights looking more like out-DPS-ing and overwhelming your enemy. I'm just a little spoiled since Company of Heroes set the bar crazy high




PS: I care little for a campaign, and more about the metagame or skirmish matches
In my opinion:
Campaign means very little for the longevity and replay value of games of this genre
Solid mechanics and fun matches can carry a game for years.
SEE: Age of Empires 2 and Company of Heroes

[Mojo Jojo]

the fog of war is horrific and i mean HORRIFIC

[Ragnar LootBlock]

it so sad i hate company of heros because of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ base building... here they keep like it was good in SS1 and SS2 but now in SS4 it's just less from everything and more like everything other games did wrong.. wtf you german morons broke an already good game.. i will keep playing SS2 because it feels like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SS game.

[AgentFlea]

Originally posted by PlunderJack///HooT:

it so sad i hate company of heros because of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ base building... here they keep like it was good in SS1 and SS2 but now in SS4 it's just less from everything and more like everything other games did wrong.. wtf you german morons broke an already good game.. i will keep playing SS2 because it feels like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SS game.

Oh please. CoH's base building is barely a thing. You should see other RTS' games like Age of Empires, where there's a whole economical aspect to the game.
There is something to be said about that, as it allows for way more flexible strategy

But I've no idea what you're on about since I'm new to the SS series in general.

[kam1kadze]

The only games it should be compared with is other Sudden Strike games. Basicly the only feature they took from SS is unit controlling, though not entirely.

I find it closer to CoH, or MoW than any previous Sudden Strike, and this is the most dissapointing thing about this game.

The main thing about Sudden Strike was the scale of the battles. I just played campaign, and my first impression was like where is my army ?. Hoped that next missions will be scaled up, but ended up on Operation Barbarosa "invading" with like 20 soldiers and 10 tanks. Perhaps it would be fine for CoH, but for Sudden Strike it is just trolling.

I got lucky to play some matches 3 on 3 in SS3, and we always ended with about 1000 units on a big maps and forming frontlines that we tried to breach for like 2 hours. Skirmish in SS4 is a joke compared to that.

It feels same like if someone will make a Total War game with AoE style battles and call it as improvement of a series.