Company of Heroes 2 to get Victory at Stalingrad DLC on November 12

Sega has announced the release date of the Victory at Stalingrad DLC for Company of Heroes 2’s Theater of War mode. The DLC will be released through digital distribution platform Steam on November 12. It will be available for $9.99 (Rs 626 approx) as part of the upcoming Turning Point update. It is currently available as a pre-order at a 10 percent discount, which brings its price down to $8.99 (Rs 563 approx).

Victory at Stalingrad will include a co-op scenario, two solo challenges and three AI battles. The co-op scenario is Kalach Pincer. Solo challenges include Tatsinskaya Raid and Bridge Defense. The AI battles are Winter Storm, Stalingrad Resistance and Stalingrad Encirclement. As you might notice from the name of some of these missions (and the name of the DLC), it is very much Stalingrad-themed, where Russia fought off the German army in a decisive battle during World War 2.

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Stalingrad sounds like such a fun place!

The DLC is part of the Turning Point update, which will have other additions to the game, most of them being free, including the World Builder, a couple of maps and some new generals for multiplayer. The World Builder will let players design and share custom-made multiplayer maps.

As its name might imply, Company of Heroes 2 is a sequel to the original Company of Heroes and has the same setting as that of the original – World War II. The original game was praised for its intensive action and a high requirement of tactics. The game quickly gained a lot of fans in the pro-gaming circuit. While it did have a single player campaign that had some of the biggest events of World War II, its multiplayer was undoubtedly the main pull of the game.

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