Depending on the mission, the player controls either Able Company of the 29th Infantry Division's 116th Infantry, or Fox Company of the 101st Airborne Division's 506th PIR.military units during the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of France.In the single-player campaign the player commands two U.Players aim to capture strategic resource sectors located around the map, which they use to build base structures, produce new units, and defeat their enemies.Company of Heroes is set during the Second World War and contains two playable factions.It was the first title to make use of the Games for Windows label.Company of Heroes is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems.