Alas, in spite of the name, there are no actual bears. You can even see a flamethrower doing what flamethrowers do in slightly more detail than you probably want. Oddly-named German tanks rumble around in the box. It’s the faint scent of solvents from the decadent, multi-coloured printing used on the mounted boards and fat counters.
You can smell the difference between CoH and typical wargames the second you open the lid. “The historical wargame that Eurogamers love to play,” was the actual marketing copy. The publisher even said so on its sister game, Storms of Steel.
WELL, I’ve got a game for you with none of that! It’s called Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear (a series you might remember from my primer on wargames or my article on the best introductory wargames) and Academy Games made it just for you. Or perhaps it’s the drab art and thin components? Maybe the focus on simulating men being sad in some mud. Possibly it’s their rumoured rules complexity. Thrower: Why don’t you play wargames? Why, after all I’ve forced SU&SD to publish about them at gunpoint, have you not pressed the nuclear button on this this amazing corner of our hobby? There’s lots of reasons I can think of. To back the Company of Heroes board game and push them towards their $100,000 goal, check out the Kickstarter campaign page.Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear, War Games, SU&SD Recommends, Heavy Games With beginner, standard and hard-core modes players can play at the complexity they want. It supports two to four players with an optional add-on pack for solo and cooperative play and has a suggested play time of ninety minutes. The Kickstarter campaign includes a $99 Core Set with US, British, Soviet and German armies. Players eventually unleash their team’s powerful end game forces to help secure enough victory points or annihilate the enemy base building to win. Players maneuver units from either US, British, Soviet or German factions to secure resource points, grow their economy, unlock buildings and purchase and upgrade new units. Described as a video game ‘port’, game play is designed to simulate the video game experience. Designed to capture the look and feel of the popular real time strategy video game, the board game includes 36 vehicle figures, 150 infantry figures, and custom dice. A board game version of the Company of Heroes video game is on Kickstarter.
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