Company of Heroes 3: A Look at the Mission Variety – IGN First

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Over the course of Company of Heroes 3's expansive, open-ended Italian campaign, you'll fight your fair share of classic RTS battles. Quite a lot of them, probably. But to add some variety, there are also several less conventional encounters you can come across with their own rules and objectives, so you have to stay on your toes. From a desperate rescue mission to shadowy commando operations, it will take ingenuity and adaptability to break the Axis lines in the push toward Rome. We got to try out just a few of these unorthodox scenarios.

They say the best way to stop a snake is to cut off the head. I don't know who "they" are, nor have I actually tested this. I'd rather leave snakes alone, you know? But it can definitely be true when fighting Nazis, which brought us to one of my favorite Company of Heroes 3 missions so far: The Gardening Job. This nighttime infiltration is a stealthy special forces assignment, giving you a small number of very specialized troops and no way to get reinforcements. You'll have to infiltrate an occupied manor, taking out guards along the way, before assassinating a Nazi officer and escaping, hopefully, with your lives.

You don't have the time to slug it out from cover and hope to out-shoot the enemy here, and you don't have the manpower to bulldoze your way across the map. So it becomes this very tricky puzzle of choosing your engagements, staying undetected, knowing how to use squad abilities, and making sure every firefight is tilted heavily in your favor. I played it a couple times, and I found that moving fast and decisively was really the way to go. It feels like a proper commando raid, getting the jump on enemy patrols and taking them down before they even know what hit them.

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