Company of Heroes: Joint Operations

[Voodoo]

Joint Operations (previously Destination Reichstag) is an unofficial mod to the Company of Heroes game that contains different scripted missions similar to single player campaign. All missions can be played alone in Skirmish mode or at Relic Online with your friends (cooperative vs cpu). Most of the mission stories and ideas are purely fictional partly based on war movies, cancelled military projects and some other crazy stuff. The missions are designed to have a bit more replay value than the SP campaign missions by having some game elements randomized. This can mean that the enemies can be stronger, use different units and tactics every time you play or mission objective locations be randomized so you cant always find the stuff needed from the same place.

I played this mod for Company of Heroes last night for several hours. Co-op comp-stomp sessions in multiplayer are quite fun, but having actual scripted co-op missions in mutiplayer is a wholly higher level. The missions that we played were:

Survival
Type: Axis defend mission
Players: 1 - 2
Difficulty: Insane

In this mission your forces need to survive as long as possible and you have to defend an outpost in Normandy. To survive longer you can complete different side missions to earn extra resources.

http://www.coh-jointoperations.com/images/stories/survival3a.jpg

D-Day

Type: Axis defend mission
Players: 1 - 3
Difficulty: Very hard

In this mission you defend your beach sector against the attacking Allied forces. Protect your officer and keep him alive until the reinforcements arrive. There are several side missions to complete that will help you to survive.

http://www.coh-jointoperations.com/images/stories/dda.jpg

Das Boot

Type: Axis defend mission
Players: 1 - 2
Difficulty: Very hard

In this mission your objective is to defend the harbor area where the u-boat is getting repaired. There are few side missions that affect the time that is required to finish the repairs.

http://www.coh-jointoperations.com/images/stories/boot.jpg

If you play Company of Heroes and enjoy the current co-operative style that comp-stomps bring to the table, then these missions and this module are HIGHLY recommended.

Company of Heroes: Joint Operations (http://www.coh-jointoperations.com/) | Mod Download (http://www.coh-jointoperations.com/index.php/download)

[MagGnome]

Great write-up Voodoo, thanks! :)

[Voodoo]

I've played it almost every night this week. Coop comp stomps are fun in CoH but these Coop missions bring it to an entirely different level. There are missions that you can not win, you just try to hold on for as long as possible. The point of those is to see if you can beat your last level and score. They are all great fun.

[MagGnome]

That sounds like fun! It also sounds like they are brutally difficult though.

I really need to pick up the CoH campaign again soon.