Company of Heroes: Eastern Front is a fan-designed modification for Relic Entertainment's critically acclaimed real-time strategy game Company of Heroes. Set in the late Eastern European theater of World War II, the mod primarily features the Soviet Union's Red Army and Nazi Germany's Ostheer.
The Mod[]
This free mod offers a fully-packed Soviet faction and an Ostheer faction to play. The mod itself does not overwrite the base game. People can thus play with all six armies at once. Players must have the Company of Heroes New Steam Version to be able to play this mod.
Design Overhaul 2023[]
A part of the former development team formed up in late 2021 to fix bugs that were present in the steam release version and update and polish the gameplay.
- Instead of covering the whole conflict from 1941 to 1945 the mod now exclusively takes place in the later stage of the war post summer 1943. This was done to adjust Eastern Front to the time frame of Company of Heroes 1, which takes places from Summer 1944 to January 1945. As a result, the unit selection for Ostheer and Soviets is different.
- Both Soviet and Ostheer Commander Trees are heavily updated.
- A lot of Quality of Life (QoL) changes were introduced, alongside with balance & bugfixes to regular Company of Heroes factions. Grid Hotkey systems now also work for Eastern Front factions.
- AI has been updated once more and is more challenging to fight against
- Maps have been updated and new maps were added thanks to still active map makers in the Eastern Front community
Reward units[]
Also, it adds a number of new Reward units:
- United Kingdom:
- Comet - Replaces the Sherman Firefly.
- Wehrmacht:
- Tiger Ace - Replaces the King Tiger with Joseph Shultz's Black Tiger seen in the Invasion of Normandy campaign in Company of Heroes.
Singleplayer[]
Due to time constraints and missing manpower all efforts to create singleplayer content have been scrapped.
Multiplayer[]
Because of Relic's online system the new factions will not have online Ranks and stats.
You can play as all six factions online versus people who have Eastern Front installed and patched.
Eastern Front mod now has ranked 1vs1s, 2vs2s, & 3vs3s. Make sure to join the EF Discord community as that is where the devs will post the most information: https://discord.gg/nSC9uwF4hA