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Playing vs. AI works pretty well for me. Joking but also serious.

Theoretically, the right play is to contest the field to the best of your ability, putting constant pressure so that they can't build.

More realistically, if you get pushed off the field and they can get a bunker built and you can't field a howitzer or the indian mortar, then I think it would be best to shift your army to the flanks, supporting your teammates in order to make a breakthrough, then try to destroy the bunkers from behind later.

Hopefully all the manpower spent on static defenses means that their infantry isn't up to snuff in a battle where you aren't in the crosshairs of a bunker MG.


Outside of the pak howi and indian arty, AT guns and squads equipped with bazookas (standing behind the bunker ofc) are the most efficient counter to bunkers, I think. If they don't have good indirect, then you can simply use scouts to give sight to AT guns while they demo the bunkers.


Of course, this is a 4v4 strategy, and also I'm like rank 1,000+, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

So? We are playing CoH here, not C&C. CoH always has been about unit preservation and few units on the field, not "spam many units and just charge in" rock paper scissors style like C&C

It's like releasing a new Battlefield or CoD but now the only gamemode has building enabled because "it works and is successful in Fortnite"

The "big tanks big explosions" formula worked perfectly in CoH1 & 2 teamgames, and fiddling with this was a bad mistake

Have to agree. The whole reason I play CoH over shit like Starcraft 2 (or whatever its called) or Age of Empires is because I have more fun with the tactics part more than the "ooga booga me build worker to mine fart gas and unobtanium crystals to build 100 flying units and A move them to enemy" part.

Yeah I think that if you asked all the ppl who got the premium edition RIGHT NOW "would you still have bought the premium edition if all you got were these two battlegroups" NOBODY would have said yes lmfao

Panzerkrieg was sort of brought back in mod form by this current/ex-developer - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3000751615

And it's accompanying tuning pack - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3000751560

So I have the sneaking suspicion that either this person was working on it before leaving Relic or they're just leftover files for the future perhaps.

There's loads of other unfinished content in the game, especially in terms of unit references, so anything is possible really.

Very cool! Thanks for the info!

Thanks for the response. The one thing that keeps my hype about CoH 3 at a low drone is the fact that dataminers found references to an "Attrition" gamemode in the files of CoH 3. Though, unfortunately, I don't recall where I saw this info.

Aha! I decided to do a little digging of my own; thanks to Janne252's Release of the Essense Archive Viewer, I discovered that the references to the gamemode still exist in the attrib.sga file (as of 12/08/2023):


For anyone interested in seeing for themselves, the full path is:

Company of Heroes 3\anvil\archives\attrib\instances\multiplayer\match_type\

(the path listed at the bottom of the photo leads to the .rgd files)

I tried to extract the xml file to see (with my very limited knowledge of coding) if it possessed similar functionality to the CoH 2 gamemode of the same name, but sadly I was met with an error:

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