Life’s too short to worry otherwise about difficulty levels and what being unable to play on harder modes says about your competence with gaming or by extension life (trust me, for some people, when gaming is an important part of your life, it can reach that level of introspection).īut here I am having played Company of Heroes, Opposing Fronts, Tales of Valor and its several mods for more than ten years now. If playing on Easy means you enjoy it then. At the end of the day a game is meant to be enjoyed. Regarding difficulty, I’ll say this much there’s no shame in playing on Easy mode. I ONLY ever play skirmish, maybe 5 or 6 times in ten years against an opponent (I don't have the time or the patience to find an opponent). Can games be anxiety ridden and tense affairs with little to no fun? Again, absolutely yes. Is it unfair? Absolutely Yes, the rate at which the computer spawns units is simply impossible. Combined with the Iron Man lock, this makes Ardennes Assault particularly tricky.Even on normal mode. Hell, moving through enemy territory on the strategy map (which you’re often forced to do in order to engage somebody) will cost you some. Even a successful mission where you’re diligent about healing up wounded squads and lose relatively few troops will cost you a fair bit of strength. Missions can be attempted multiple times, but each of your three companies has limited strength and this depletes as you undertake military actions. It was refreshing to be able to screw up like that, but this expansion is also pretty heavy-handed in the way it applies attrition to your forces. My first efforts floundered around two-thirds in and the rest of my review time has been spent replaying earlier missions to see whether Relic’s claims about dynamic structure hold water. As a result of that I haven’t seen every single mission this expansion has to offer, because I’ve not yet made it through the full thing. Just as in XCOM, this means you can reach a point in Ardennes Assault where you simply have no chance of progressing and may as well restart.
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