I was talking about CoH 2 with a friend. I don't know any details about the game, other than it being set in the Eastern Front. So, in the first CoH, we had the US Army and the Wehrmacht. The First expansion gave us the British Army and the Panzer Elite. The second expansion just gave us reward units for each of the factions.
I'm sure Relic wants to 1-up from CoH and make CoH 2 much better. I had a ridiculous, funny, and extremely unrealistic idea go through my head thinking about how CoH 2 was gonna go:
First I thought: Expansions. Definitely. Dawn of War had them, Dawn of War 2 had them, Company of Heroes had them. Vanilla CoH 2 will have the Red Army and the Ostheer for sure, and I'm pretty sure the expansions for CoH 2 will add more factions, and this is where my idea gets ridiculous. There will be at least two expansions; one of them will be in the Pacific Theater and add the Imperial Japanese Army and the United States Marine Corps, and the other one will be in Africa and add the Afrika Corps and the 7th Armored "Desert Rats"
Look at my proposed list:
Red Army, Ostheer
IJA, USMC
Afrika Corps, Desert Rats
I know it looks ridiculous and playing on a snowy map with the British troops wearing shorts and short-sleeves and Japanese ambush troops with jungle foliage on their back, but I look at that list and say, "screw realism; It would be damn funny and awesome to have these factions in the game together!" Obviously, it would be very hard to balance, though.
Another thing is melee combat. I do hope CoH 2 has this. It's just weird when Infantry are at point-blank range and they just fire their rifles and reload beside each other. Bayonets, combat knives, machetes, would be cool switch-to weapons for melee combat, and if the above factions are in, we could have Japanese fanatics with cheap katanas and scottish highland troops with claymores(the sword, not the mines).
As you may have noticed, I don't really care for historical accuracy when it comes to the multiplayer of WW2 games, and you shouldn't, because it's multiplayer and ridiculous amazing shit happens there.(pardon my language)
