These are nightmarish tales of new recruits wading through menus looking for a way to reinforce decorated troops before they are wiped out, or not being able to find the keyboard command to group units together. These stories showcase Ardennes Assault at its dynamic best, but there are other stories that are far less noble. Or when an entrenched squad of Dog Company's veteran assault engineers held out long enough against superior numbers to call in a support artillery barrage, but later perished as they covered their comrades' retreat. 50 cal heavy machine gun and successfully took out a high-ranking German officer. With three varied companies to marshal (and a fourth via a premium add-on), some of these stories are rousing tales of valour and derring-do - like the time that paratroopers of the airborne company were dropped behind enemy lines with a. Not the affected and laboured stories that dragged down the narrative in the base game, but rather the unique incidental anecdotes that are shaped during play.
Ardennes Assault, the single-player standalone expansion to Relic's Company of Heroes 2, is a game about stories.
