So being in the mood for something new, turn-based, and tactical, I'm torn between getting Team Assault which has been out for about a month, or waiting for CoH, which is supposed to be out any day now. I'll start by saying I have no experience with the board game, so what I know of CoH comes from the forum and AAR's, and what I know of TA comes from gameplay videos and the just-released manual. Here's what I'm weighing:
Team Assault - Turn based WWII with battles set in Italy
Conflict of Heroes - Turn based WWI with battles set in.......?????
T A - No campaign, but campaigns to come as DLC/expansion packs
CoH - No campaign, with future plans for ?????
T A - Roll-your own scenarios where player decides map and what forces are in play
CoH - Pre-made scenarios only
T A - Player can micro-manage individual squad members
CoH - Individual squad members not modeled
T A - No reaction fire
CoH - Unknown
T A - No fog of war
CoH - Fog of war optional
T A - $20
CoH - $40
Right now as near as I can tell, both offer essentially the same gaming experience, so I'm leaning towards Team Assault since it's half the price. However, I realize I might be missing a few things, so if anyone has anything to add, I'm open to suggestions.
COH is the computer port of the platoon-level boardgame. You're not supposed to manage indiv people at that level
Quote from: tgb on April 26, 2012, 12:57:45 PM
So being in the mood for something new, turn-based, and tactical, I'm torn between getting Team Assault which has been out for about a month, or waiting for CoH, which is supposed to be out any day now. I'll start by saying I have no experience with the board game, so what I know of CoH comes from the forum and AAR's, and what I know of TA comes from gameplay videos and the just-released manual. Here's what I'm weighing:
Team Assault - Turn based WWII with battles set in Italy
Conflict of Heroes - Turn based WWI with battles set in.......?????
CoH is Germans versus Russians early WWII
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T A - No campaign, but campaigns to come as DLC/expansion packs
CoH - No campaign, with future plans for ?????
Future may hold campaigns for CoH
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T A - Roll-your own scenarios where player decides map and what forces are in play
CoH - Pre-made scenarios only
Pretty sure you will be able to built your own in CoH as well.
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T A - Player can micro-manage individual squad members
CoH - Individual squad members not modeled
CoH is squad based not individual based. But vehicles are singles.
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T A - No reaction fire
CoH - Unknown
CoH has reacation fire.
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T A - No fog of war
CoH - Fog of war optional
T A - $20
CoH - $40
Right now as near as I can tell, both offer essentially the same gaming experience, so I'm leaning towards Team Assault since it's half the price. However, I realize I might be missing a few things, so if anyone has anything to add, I'm open to suggestions.
Like BB said CoH is a direct port of a board game. You can see it here on BGG:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24800/conflict-of-heroes-awakening-the-bear-russia-1941
You can even download teh rules from the publisher's site to see how it plays.
I think the gaming experience will be very different for these two games... enough so that owning both shouldn't be a problem.