What is so Great about Company of Heroes?

[Sir Moody]

i think you guys missed the point - it wasnt ment to be realistic really

i know we need a good "close combat" game to come out and rejuvinate the realistic WW2 RTS sub-genre but in effect CoH is Dawn of War but improved and thats about it

the single player campaign is really quite bad but multiplayer is a blast - i play coporeative with a friend and we regualry play 4 AI vs us 2 - you have never seen such epic defences

oh and lack of tactics? you arnt playing it right a lot of the game is getting your infratry into good cover and keeping your tanks facing the enemy guns ill agree but there is tactics ie this is a situation i found myself in at the weekend

I was playing para in a 4v3 (4 hard AI vs me, my friend and my brother) my troopers are in cover exchanging fire with a horde of Stormtroopers - i cant push through and neither can they - to break this stalemate i drop a unti of paras behind the storm troopers and take up cover - since my troopers are behind them the storm troopers cover is facing my main force not them and they are quickly massacred and i advance

i wouldnt consider it the best rts ever but its fun enough to make my top 10 (number 1 been the original MTW i just got mtw2 working so that may work out)

[Stig]

What I don't like is the fact you need to build a base and such. For me that belongs to Medieval RTS games, not WW2 ones.