There are four factions players can choose from: Germany, the USSR, the USA and Britain. There’s no campaign, but there are a few big maps you can mess around with, which can be scaled and changed (and even combined if you’ve got the space) to provide different challenges. It’s almost a port, though I say that with the utmost admiration for the designers at Bad Crow Studios, because while the board game manages to stuff everything from Relic’s 2006 release in here, the ways they’ve crammed it in are of course unique to the tabletop, and so worthy of praise.Ĭompany of Heroes ships with a few different ways to play, ranging from standard skirmishes (taking and holding victory points) to HQ assaults, and with the co-op expansion throws in the ability to add (very smartly-handled) AI opponents and teammates to the mix. It’s so close I don’t even know if this counts as an adaptation anymore. It doesn’t even matter that it’s now turn-based while the video game was real-time, you get the exact same feelings, only at a slightly slower pace. Every system, every aspect, everything you remember and love about the video game, you’ll find it here, only now you’re playing it on a table instead of a PC.

You don’t like the board game just because liked Assassin’s Creed, but because you liked Assassin’s Creed’s particular take on stealth and evasion, which Brotherhood of Venice was able to so excellently replicate.Ĭompany of Heroes somehow manages to go even further still. They’re able to transplant whole systems from the video game to the tabletop, giving the board game the same overall vibes as the video game.

Better adaptations, like the Assassin’s Creed game I only just reviewed, manage to go a bit further.

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