While there is a tutorial mission, as well as numerous tactical readings available to serve as a introduction for new players, CoH2 uses its first few campaign missions to introduce you to some of the changes from its predecessr, with the two most important being TrueSight and General Winter. Stationed at Stalingrad, Lev and his troops are naturally instrumental in routing the Germans, or as High Command refers to them throughout the course of the game, the Fascists. Told through flashbacks, a now familiar trope, Lev's forced look back at the war and the atrocities committed begins a year after Operation Barbarossa, Germany's stunning entrance on to and through the Eastern Front.
The game spans the entire length of the conflict through its different modes, offering a diverse set of looks and set pieces, especially within the confines of its campaign, which center on the career exploits of Lev Abramovich Isakovich. With the Russian “Red Army” as its star, CoH2 brings its brand of tactical World War 2 strategy to the other side of Europe.
'As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire.the result of all this was a panic.The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end' - General Heinz Guderian, November 1941
