Any new armies besides the british?

[DesertFalcon]

I heard they are introducing the british is that the only new army in this expansion pack?

[Cherni_95]

The other Army in the expansion(btw its a stand-alone) is the Panzer Elite, they area mostly motorized army with some pretty awesome looking stuff. The Brits will also have Royal Canadian Artillery and Royal Scots Engineers:D

[Kradath]

Engineers for the win!

Here are some infos from the frontpage:
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the next chapter in the critically acclaimed Company of Heroes series. Players take command of the German Panzer Elite as they struggle against the might of Operation Market Garden, or lead the British 2nd Army in the vicious battle for Caen, France. The standalone title features:

• Two unique armies with full length campaigns
• New multiplayer modes
• Microsoft DirectX® 10 support
• Mission persistence
• Improved vehicle and soldier AI
• Enhanced physics
• A dynamic weather system

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is fully compatible with Company of Heroes, allowing players to wage war with four unique armies. Internally developed by Relic Entertainment, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is scheduled to ship for Windows PC in Fall 2007.

[Idaeus]

Dynamic weather system!?!?!? Sounds cool! When will fps mode come?

[Kradath]

I hope the next exp contains the japanese, maybe see combat? ;)
Like in EaW where you have ground and space combat.

[Cherni_95]

I hope the next exp contains the japanese, maybe see combat? ;)
Like in EaW where you have ground and space combat.

Maybe a duo Russian and Japanese xpack:D

[Kradath]

A bit too much for one expansion, maybe some japanese against russia battles. :P

[is_don_is_good]

a russian one sounds cool

[Kradath]

And I think it would be easier to implement compared to the japanese. But the Axis would again only get germans. :D

[Cherni_95]

IMO, the Japs would suck, MOTHER RUSSIA FTW!

[Idaeus]

Will there be a third expansion?

[is_don_is_good]

hopefully they wont screw up the series with an expansion that includes aliens...

japanese campaign will suck because most of the battles are fought at sea or in planes. iwo jima was the most biggest land battle. perhaps they ought to set a whole campaign there. kamikaze attacks will be cool too, could be a doctrine or something. with troops going crazy and you can send in suicidal pilots to crash the site :D

[Cherni_95]

hopefully they wont screw up the series with an expansion that includes aliens...

japanese campaign will suck because most of the battles are fought at sea or in planes. iwo jima was the most biggest land battle. perhaps they ought to set a whole campaign there. kamikaze attacks will be cool too, could be a doctrine or something. with troops going crazy and you can send in suicidal pilots to crash the site :D

That would be awesome, but the Ruskies would also be another good one... think about it... they had the best Urban and tank battles of WW2

[Kradath]

Will there be a third expansion?

It's seems to be sure, they said that they will expand the CoH game more and more.

[BoDyBaG2224]

Yeah they already said that COH will cover all theaters. So that means that Japanese will be here eventually. Look for Russians after OF. I feel that the Pacific campaign will be like Sims 2. Similar to the sims but on the whole it is completely done over/overhauled. Probably eastern front with russia next but a smaller expansion then this (OF) then North Africa, and then probably Pacific theater. Rember that there was fighting in the philipenes (sp?) and other indonesian countries. Would love to see a Vietnam COH.

[is_don_is_good]

oh yeah, the campaign menu has a scroll down selection. our current one is Invasion of Normandy. what will the others be called?

[Idaeus]

Wow... I hope it wont just be booster packs like bf2...:mad:
This is very exciting! :D If they really are gonna make expansions for all of the ww2 war scenes (which I doubt) then I really cant wait for russia!

[Kradath]

When they keep the level of centent like in OF for example it won't be no problem. :)

[is_don_is_good]

it will keep us happy and hopefully will bring in a bigger audience

[Cherni_95]

Wow... I hope it wont just be booster packs like bf2...:mad:
This is very exciting! :D If they really are gonna make expansions for all of the ww2 war scenes (which I doubt) then I really cant wait for russia!

Games usually only have 2 xpacks, Relic is making them standalone so they can pretty much be full games and make more and more:D

[fps.sledge]

Got to keep in mind that CoH is different from other WW2 games. You follow a particular company in it's quest to win the war. As opposed to other games where you play a couple maps on d-day, play a couple maps in winter belgium, play a couple maps in russia(stalingrad specifically), etc.

As for myself, I am all for Relic's idea to follow a british or canadian company or something. I am interested in playing different parts of the war. Not just the highlights. I want something new. And the more you know about WW2, the more there is to learn. It was just such a huge war. You could create SO many games relating to WW2.

[Cherni_95]

Got to keep in mind that CoH is different from other WW2 games. You follow a particular company in it's quest to win the war. As opposed to other games where you play a couple maps on d-day, play a couple maps in winter belgium, play a couple maps in russia(stalingrad specifically), etc.

As for myself, I am all for Relic's idea to follow a british or canadian company or something. I am interested in playing different parts of the war. Not just the highlights. I want something new. And the more you know about WW2, the more there is to learn. It was just such a huge war. You could create SO many games relating to WW2.

Damn straight.

[is_don_is_good]

i hope DX10 will be better in this game...it probably will

[BoDyBaG2224]

DX10 give you the rain, snow and weather effects. Plus I heard that dead vehicles and bodies will stay on the field rather then disappear after a short time. I can't wait for that.

[Kradath]

That all results in great atmosphere. :)

[ThermalCrab]

i wanna see how the mission persistence will work,sounds pretty awesome how you can affect future missions

[is_don_is_good]

I heard that dead vehicles and bodies will stay on the field rather then disappear after a short time

hooray for body piles! :D

[ThermalCrab]

hip hip hooray!

[Lt Davis]

Russian CoH would be: *gets 600 soldiers* *mass charge* *all get slaughtered by German machine guns* *get another 600 soldiers* *repeat* :p

[iTrek]

hooray for body piles! :D

more liek a wall;)
im gonna play on vire river blow the bridges then build a wall of german corpses!:laugh:

[ThermalCrab]

or a civilization

[is_don_is_good]

dead people don't make a civilization...but they will some day! to come and eat our breakfast

[Arid]

Sounds like the underworld....


What about Japs versus Aussies... that would be cool.

[is_don_is_good]

i found out aussies are boring. just fighting on little islands. some aussies scattered over normandy and used the same equipment as the british but added vegimite bullets

[Cherni_95]

Sounds like the underworld....


What about Japs versus Aussies... that would be cool.

It would be a re-skinned british.

[is_don_is_good]

i will have fun with the portable arty and the creeping arty :D

arty mania! especially in skirmishes where you block out the enemy and slowly build an army of howitzers :D

[Arid]

It would be a re-skinned british.

yeah thats probably true now that I think of it...


Wait, does that mean your boring don?

[is_don_is_good]

just that making an expansion pack about the australians is not worth it. just like Cherni said: it'll all be just a reskinnned british.
australia didn't have a big involvement in WWII, they just were a fifth wheel :p
we were still a developing country and still settling in