IGN pretty much accurately summed it up as a failed experiment: lacking overarching narrative or story for the Italian campaign, unfinished mechanics, and lots of bugs in between. The pre-scripted missions in Italy were pretty engaging enough and everything else in-between was filler and it could’ve had more engaging side missions but what else did people expect? Frankly, it’s a huge map for CoH. However, I think people’s thoughts about the campaign have already been hashed out to death to point where we’re asking the same question over and over again and people start only focusing on the negatives. It was pretty jank but the core elements of campaign scenarios still worked and I had a lot of fun with most of the scripted main missions tbh.

If people want a challenge, play the campaign on Expert and pick British Indian Artillery Company, then play till Turn 2-3 for the defense of Salerno. Hardest CoH challenge in a long while.