When your forces meet on the campaign map, your army has a chance to completely annihilate the enemy forces before entering the RTS battle, as long as you hold a higher power against the enemy. Players can send their air units to scout ahead of enemy territories, have engineers remove booby traps and artillery bombard enemy forces. The campaign map allows a huge amount of control by players over their army management. Outside of the playable factions, there are partisans that you liberate on the campaign map, then control them on the campaign map to create traps and do subterfuge. In the Allied Campaign, players will be able to control both UK and US forces at the same time which adds more complexity to the gameplay. The more territory you control, the more resources you have under your control Meanwhile, the North African campaign has players leading armies one map after the other, linearly.Īs of this time, there are three confirmed forces that players can control – German, UK, and US. The Italian campaign is played out with a massive strategy map where players decide which skirmish to play next, with side missions that will help the player amass more territory for the allied powers. In Company of Heroes 3, players will be playing on the Italian and North African fronts of World War II.

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