Company of Heroes is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ for Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

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.

On June 6, 1944, the US Army's Able Company, under the command of Captain MacKay and Sergeant Conti, storms Dog White sector on Omaha Beach in Normandy.

Preceding them is Fox Company, a 101st Airborne unit that drops into Vierville-sur-Mer, secures the roads to Omaha Beach and assaults Carentan.

In Montebourg, Able Company defends the Red Ball Express convoys from the elite Panzer Lehr Division commanded by Tiger tank ace Hauptmann Shultz.

Supported by USS Texas and other warships offshore, the company then takes the main harbor of Cherbourg in vicious street fighting.

Able Company captures a bridgehead across the river Vire at Saint-Fromond before fighting through the bocage to take Hill 192 outside Saint-Lô.

Shultz evades the American attack, killing Captain MacKay with a parting shot from his Tiger tank.

Able Company is taken off the frontline to garrison Hill 317 outside Mortain, with Conti given command and a field promotion to lieutenant.

A postscript notes that Able Company sustained an 80 percent casualty rate by the end of the war, although Conti survived.

Parts of buildings can be destroyed by grenades, satchels, or mortars, and tanks can drive through sections of walls or other barriers.

Debris is also influenced by explosions; a blast can send barrels flying and shower troops in dirt, while leaving behind a large crater.

Relic released the Company of Heroes patch v1.70 in May 2007, which included a new DirectX 10 rendering mode with better terrain, more world objects, and improved shadows and lighting.

[19] On Metacritic, the game had an average score of 93 out of 100 based on 55 critic reviews – considered "universal acclaim" by the site.

They summarized it as "an ideal real-time strategy game", and as "a perfect storm of visuals, sound, and gameplay".