That’s not to say Company Of Heroes 3 is a one-sided power fantasy, of course.

Or at least that’s true of its many, many real-time mission maps.

These secondary objectives feel wonderfully organic, too.

Key artwork showing the different soldiers and factions for Company Of Heroes 3

And exactly the kind of thing I’d have hoped to see from this grand strategy component.

I suspect part of this may be down to a gaggle of lingering technical hitches.

I was also impressed by the lack of repetition in its plentiful supply of skirmish maps.

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Love you big time, recovery truck.

A troop of soldiers and a tank unit approach the Italian town of Cancello in Company Of Heroes 3

A German vehicle unit gets bombed on the Italian campaign map in Company Of Heroes 3

An overhead view of the Italian campaign map in Company Of Heroes 3

A troop of soldier parachute into Camino in Company Of Heroes 3

Soldiers hunker down behind sandbags in Company Of Heroes 3

Soldiers gather round a capture point in Company Of Heroes 3

Soldiers parachute into a stronghold town in Company Of Heroes 3

Tanks and soldiers roll into to destroy an enemy base in Company Of Heroes 3

Soldiers enter the ruins of Monte Cassino in Company Of Heroes 3

An artillery gun prepares to fire across the desert in Company Of Heroes 3

A recovery truck fixes a tank in Company Of Heroes 3

Tanks rush into a busy battleground in Company Of Heroes 3