{"id":98530,"date":"2019-08-15T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/company-of-heroes-ipad\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:36:11","slug":"company-of-heroes-will-be-storming-ipad-like-its-normandy-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/15\/company-of-heroes-will-be-storming-ipad-like-its-normandy-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Company of Heroes will be storming iPad like its Normandy Later This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/company-of-heroes-will-be-storming-ipad-like-its-normandy-later-this-year.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"author\">By Joe Robinson<\/span> <span class=\"date\">15 Aug 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<p><strong>C<\/strong><em>ompany of Heroes<\/em> will live on forever as the most iconic tactical RTS in the history of strategy games. Not only is it one of the best WW2 strategy games, it\u2019s one of the best games <strong>period<\/strong>. Probably.<\/p>\n<p>Smartly evolving the rather old-school base-building idea into one that perfectly fits with realities of the Normandy campaign, it also brought with it a very versatile tactical interface where the lives of your units mattered, and exploiting the terrain was key to victory.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a series that has few rivals, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feralinteractive.com\/en\/ios-games\/companyofheroes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it\u2019s coming to iPad<\/a> thanks to those mad folks over at Feral Interactive. Queue trailer:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x1TyiitIz38?controls=0]<\/p>\n<p>These are the guys that\u2019s brought over games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/tropico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Tropico<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/review-rome-total-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Rome: Total War<\/em><\/a> (along with both its expansions), so they should know a thing or two about porting over well-loved strategy franchises. Here\u2019s what we know for certain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s coming \u2018This Fall\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>It will be a premium game with no IAPs.<\/li>\n<li>It will be iPad only to start with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is par-the-course with how Feral have ported things in the past: iPad first, then iPhone and then if we\u2019re lucky, an Android port will follow at some-point as well. The IAP thing is fine, but remember <em>Company of Heroes<\/em> did have two expansions, one of which added the British Army (which was always my favourite) so it\u2019ll be interesting to see whether those are also in the works, and whether they\u2019ll be released as stand-alones <em>a la<\/em> <em>RTW<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/review-rome-total-war-barbarian-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Barbarian Invasion<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/review-rome-total-war-alexander\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Alexander<\/em><\/a> add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, this is exciting news &#8211; only yesterday I was lamenting how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/nintendo-switch-strategy-games-mobile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nintendo Switch seemed to be stealing all of our decent strategy games<\/a>, and now Feral swoop in to brighten our day. We\u2019ll give you more info as we get it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Robinson 15 Aug 2019 Company of Heroes will live on forever as the most iconic tactical RTS in the history of strategy games. Not only is it one of the best WW2 strategy games, it\u2019s one of the best games period. Probably. Smartly evolving the rather old-school base-building idea into one that perfectly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}