As you go up the tech tree you get the choice to either go more mobile and harder hitting, or more static and defensive. So we developed this concept that we call the ‘Hammer and Anvil’. Once they held it they could bring up anti-tank weapons and so on, they were very durable. It wasn’t often they got pushed off a piece of ground that they had captured. Quinn Duffy: One of the things that we found when we looked at their military doctrine… we had done a lot of research on the British forces and the Commonwealth when we did the first game, so we had some familiarity with the history and so on, but what we found in Normandy and Holland is that they were very strong defensively. GameWatcher: One of the things you mentioned regarding the new British army is that it can really specialise in two distinct areas. I chatted to game director Quinn Duffy to see if I could find out more. They’re still plenty capable of turtling it up in CoH 2, but according to Relic they’ve also got a few new tricks up their well-ironed sleeves. The Tommies were actually added in an expansion to the first game, and specialised in being rock-solid, stubborn defenders who were an absolute nightmare to get rid of once they’d dug in to a fortified position. Relic continues to pump out new content for World War 2 strategy compendium Company of Heroes 2, the latest of which is the good old British army, set for release later this Summer.
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