T-34 medium armor tank

though I could be wrong

We've seen Company of Heroes 2 couple of times this year, and each time we've walked away saying to ourselves, "Yep, that's definitely a Company of Heroes game!" While some games would love to have that distinction, I worry it could backfire for CoH 2. Has there really been enough innovation to warrant a sequel? Should it have been released as an expansion pack? Will we get panzerschreck-armed donkeys ? We're still a year away from playing the final build so these answers will have to wait. For now we can admire how good it looks with some newly released screenshots. Click on any of the screens below to go to the Company of Heroes 2 gallery to see these images and others in higher resolution.While this battle looks great with machine gun fire, mortars, and awesome tanks it's also one of the worst displays of how to actually engage in battle. Why aren't any of these soldiers in cover? Meanwhile, in the background, you have a couple of guys firing rifles at a damn tank. Yeah, this isn't representative of abattle of CoH, but it still looks awesome.The IL-2 Sturmovik is one of my favorite WWII aircraft and I'm pretty damn excited to see it in CoH 2. It's designed to assist with not only helping to punch a line through enemy forces, but it will continue to fly around the map revealing enemy positions for a short period of time as well.Tanks and soldiers will be able to travel faster if they stick to the roads in CoH 2. Otherwise their movement speed will be impaired if they try and navigate through the thick snow. This will make for some tough decisions in battle since you can be assured that roads like this one will be well-guarded.I believe that's a heavy armor KV-1 tank on the left and aT-70 light armor tank on the right (thanks, HornyGoblin). But the fact that we'll be able to commandeer abandoned vehicles, like these tanks, might be one of those big innovations that helps it stand apart from its predecessor. But we'll have to wait to see how frequently this happens in a normal battle. Either way we can look forward to playing around with new vehicles.Okay, this battle looks to be shaping up much better than the first screenshot. I see more soldiers actually lying in cover and that appears to be a frozen river that a German tank is trying to cross. If the Russian player decides to focus his fire on a patch of frozen water, like just below where the enemy tank is right now, he'll send that tank in for a swim.