Company of Heroes 2: Case Blue Review (CommissarTommy)
The Case Blue Mission Pack brings a set of five new missions to this new 'Theatre of War'. You play as Germany, restricted to 1941 units and vehicles so be prepared for the balancing to be a little wild.
I'm quite late to the Company of Heroes 2 party and I was really excited to get into these mission packs when I finished the base game, but sadly I just cannot recommend this one. At times the missions are fun, but more often than not they've just frustrating and not as polished as the main game, which is disappointing considering you are being expected to pay extra for these missions.
It took me about 6 hours (including retries) to complete all of the missions in this pack on 'Captain' difficulty, so I do think that you will be able to get some good play time out of this. However, be prepared to be frustrated by some of the missions - especially if you are having to play with an AI teammate instead of a real person. Other reviewers have pointed out Tiger Ace as being a particularly silly mission, but for me Assault on Voronezh and Kharkov Pursuit were particularly silly.
Assault on Voronezh is pretty much impossible playing playing as the tank commander because the AI cannot handle being the the infantry commander and just get all their units killed. Kharkov Pursuit is poorly balanced and I just didn't find it to be a very enjoyable map to play on as a result, especially with the very limited unit set you have available in the first 10 minutes or so.
Maybe pick it up as part of a bundle if you don't own the base game, but I wouldn't buy this on its own unless there is a really heavy discount.