History Trivia / CompanyOfHeroes

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: While it's pretty much definitely a coincidence considering almost every other anti-gun in the series is about as helpless against infantry, the American's 57mm anti-tank gun initially did not have high-explosive ammunition produced for it - in fact, high-explosive rounds for it did not get produced until after the Normandy campaign, which is where the first game takes place.

* ChannelHop: Thanks to the company going bankrupt, Creator/{{Sega}} took over publishing duties from Creator/{{THQ}} (along with development studio Relic Entertainment).

** Then was the gap between ''2'' and ''3'' lasted for 10 years.

* SequelGap: 10 years between ''2'' and ''3''.

* FanNickname:
** Relic Entertainment is often referred to as "Lelic" by the community, often in response to poor balancing choice.
** A large concentration of British emplacements is often mockingly called "sim city" by Axis players.

** [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oO90NL One artist's portfolio for Company of Heroes]] includes some promotional art, icons used for doctrines and victory pop-ups, concept art of the British forces overseeing the bombing of a city...and two pieces of pin-up-style ladies wearing SexyWhateverOutfit versions of American and German World War II military uniforms. Those two pieces were obviously not actually used in the game in any way, and it's not known what they could have been intended for.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: While some critics have decried having a Jewish officer (''Lev'' Isakovich) in the Red Army as "unrealistic" (anti-semitism being a constant feature of the Soviet era from Stalin onwards), there was a sizeable Jewish minority among the soldiers of the Red Army (about 500,000, out of which about 200,000 died in battle or were taken captive by the Germans).
* [[BannedInChina Banned in Russia]]: As of 26 July 2013, after the game was lambasted in Russia for "overblown fabrications of history", and "offensive and stereotypical lies about Soviet soldiers", the Russian publisher 1C-Softclub removed all retail copies from stores within that country. What really stands out is that this was done because this was demanded by regular players through a petition.

*** The Obersoldaten unit has a few spots in the code where the title "Honor Guard" is applied to stuff related to them, and out-of-combat dialogue has some other OKW infantry units to say they're fanatics, leading some to believe the Obersoldaten may have been planned to be more explicitly some sort of elite Waffen S.S. unit, such as 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, until Relic likely figured the censors wouldn't stand it.

* FanNickname: Relic Entertainment is often referred to as "Lelic" by the community.

* FanNickname: Relic Entertainment is often referred to as "Lelic" by the CoH2 community.

** ** [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oO90NL One artist's portfolio for Company of Heroes]] includes some promotional art, icons used for doctrines and victory pop-ups, concept art of the British forces overseeing the bombing of a city...and two pieces of pin-up-style ladies wearing SexyWhateverOutfit versions of American and German World War II military uniforms. Those two pieces were obviously not actually used in the game in any way, and it's not known what they could have been intended for.

* FanNickname: Ubersoldaten for the Obersoldaten infantry squad, when they were at their most [[GameBreaker game-breaking]].
** Clown Car for the [=M3A1=] Scout Cars.
** Barfinders for Pathfinders equipped with, well, M1918 [=BARs=].