Most Company of Heroes veterans despise the game due to the fact the Relic more or less left the original game in a broken state after a bad final expansion, and apparently abandoned support for it for this instead.  Even if you didn't come from the original, CoHO gives lopsided matchups due to a player either having flat out better units due to playing more, or buying them; having skill alone not decide the match is the most absolutely stupid design you can go with in a RTS, and only one other RTS than I know of was dumb enough to try this model (EA's flop Battleforge).

The original game goes on sale for < $5 on Steam sales all the time.  You are generally better off going with that and then using one of the many excellent mods for it.  The Eastern Front mod in particular adds the Soviets to the game, adds some new units and models, fixes most of the glaring balance problems Relic left, and is heavily supported and updated by the mod devs.  And it works with just the original game, you do not need any of the expansions unless you want the OF factions.

I was about to denounce Sloan and Grove for replying to spam, but thought I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Who knows, maybe this guy just really likes to inform others about free-to-play games.

So let's look at his history. I see Solace773 has two types of posts.

The first type is much like this one; a paragraph about a free-to-play online game that, while not exactly hyping the product, is too positive to be considered unbiased. Suggestive of spamming.

The second type of posts Solace773 makes are much more overt. He's asked for permission to send unsolicited PMs to forum members in one thread, and has suggested the forum incorporate a system to openly link email accounts to forum accounts in another. They reek intensely of spamming.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

Now that I read the whole post, I noticed now that he claims single player in COHO; which it does NOT have.  It is multiplayer only.

Wow, that's a total kick in the nuts for anyone who bought it then.  I'd say the first post isn't totally spam then, as if you've never played CoH and enjoy RTS' you might as well try the campaign for free.

Another thing that gets me is his claim that Brian Wood was lead designer on COHO. He is (was ) a lead designer at Relic, but as I understood it, COHO was developed out-of-house in an Asian studio (And was live in Asia a while before it was opened to NA), which makes it seem like Solace is just name dropping.

What I REALLY don't get, though, is why the man bothers with this spam at all.