Early this morning, following heavy artillery bombardment, a large German force has penetrated US positions in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxemburg!! Allied High command is hastily rushing reinforcements to the area, to counter the surprise attack and prevent them from crossing Meuse river.

Can you stop the elite of the German panzer divisions, or vice-versa, lead them to victory? Find out.

The new version is delivered as installer version but wont change anything to your original CoH-Files.
Note: This Mod requires the orignal Company of Heroes (vanilla) and/or ToV and will not run on Opposing Fronts only.

Battle of the Bulge is a Mod focusing exclusively on the battles in Belgium and Luxemburg, December 44 - January 45.

It converts the Summer/Normandy Scenario of CoH into a winter scenario along with winter Maps, Skins and units.

Lots of emphasize has been laid on the look of the Mod. All skins are as accurate as possible, from uniform detail to unit marking.
EACH soldier in a squad has individual uniforms and equipment.
Occlusion effects, team colors, even territory borders and selection markers have been removed for visual authenticity.

Furthermore, the Mod's aim is to combine CoH game play with more realism and it tries to reflect the battle properly.
Therefore Panzerelite and Brits have been taken off the game ( Brits will show up as doctrine reinforcements, though ).
You can call in battlegroups which have originally taken part, like the 14th Cavalry Group or the infamous Kampfgruppe Peiper.
Tons of changes have also been done to unit stats, gameplay and doctrines. The units you can produce depend on the doctrine you choose.

The overall game changes are too many to mention, here are some extracts:

More than 30 completely new winter maps, mostly historical battlegrounds, designed from photos and maps.

some maps even have dynamical weather, which influences units sight range, battle performance and movement speed.

dynamical sight range - moving units wont see as far as standing units, cause they have to pay attention to their movement

new upgrade system, units can only upgrade when near to HQ or other special buildings.

removed unrealistic features, like building bunkers in 30 seconds

vehicles give cover for soldiers, tankwrecks cant be crushed and have to be demolished

barb wire may damage tires and tracks of vehicles

limits on almost every support/armored unit

heavy Infantry squads already have a bar / lMG when built.

smoke Grenades for Infantry Squads to conceal movement.

line Engineer Squads cannot repair tanks or vehicles anymore.

Special vehicle repair crews or repair stations have to be used to repair them.

and so on and so on - but maybe test it out yourself.

The in-game doctrines have been changed to reflect historical units, read more below:

Airborne Division:
becomes the defensive tree. You have a lot of powerful infantry like airborne infantry, AT-teams and heavy mortars, but only little choice of heavy artillery or vehicles force you to really use airborn tactics - dig in and wait for the Cavalry.
Doctrines will even strenghten your infantries combat value, until you get full air support in the late game.
( note: during the real battle, both US Airborn Divisions were transferred to the battlefield by trucks -
so you wont be able to paradrop in this mod, either. )

Infantry Division:
still well rounded, with good defensive and artillery units, combat engineers and fair armor.
Doctrines give you more production bonuses and send armored combat groups to the battlefield.

Armoured Division:
Like in vCoH, this is the most powerful, but slowest to build Division... but mobile artillery like Priest, and many tanks like the Sherman Easy Eight, Jumbo Sherman and the M36 let you gain the initiative.You will even receive tank reinforcements by the British.

7th Army
Consist of Volksgrenadier and heavy Fallschirmjager Infantry, light artillery and heavy antitank equipment, Mobile units are mostly antitank...the doctrine gives you enhanced defensive options like trenches as well as some armored support.

5th Panzerarmy
The most rounded tree... good Infantry units like Panzergrenadiere, some early ATs, mobile Artillery and fair battle tanks as well as doctrinal refitting options and powerful offmap units like Jagdpanther and Sturmtiger

One of the the biggest changes is a general elimination of the Point Capture system. Now we use ATC, by AGameAnx which is a script that checks the No. of units in territory, and the faction with most units inside captures the territory after some time. Observation posts have been eliminated, too.
for more info about ATC, -> go here

"The new version is delivered as installer version but wont change anything to your original CoH-Files." - So does this mean this mod has a separate launcher, and you can still play both the mod and the vanilla version if you want (like the Blitzkrieg mod for example)?

A question: Why are the Halftrack and Sdkfz 234 stummels so useless? I mean, there's virtually no blast radius for their shells and their accuracy against infantry is downright shameful. Speaking of inaccurate weapons, the Hummel and Wespe also cannot seem to hit anything with their barrages unlike the towed howitzers.

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This Battle of the Bulge Mod is really excellent. I'm totally obsessed with its massive amount of new contents as well as their creators' prudent attitude toward history. When I saw the Peiper combatgroup and Griffen Operation skill, I can't help myself to praise these people finally made a fabulous war game mod based on tremendous details of reality. Great job, guys! Great job. I do love this mod!

Jan 15 2012, 11:29pm by bigstudy

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