Company of Heroes 2 players will wage war on the Eastern Front of World War II, a brutal setting made even worse by the region's frigid conditions, as seen in the first gameplay trailer for Relic Entertainment's real-time strategy title.

The frozen tundra of central and eastern Europe played a major part in the fighting — note the sequence in the trailer that takes place on thin ice. The trailer premiered on X-Play yesterday evening; it's the full version of a teaser that THQ released earlier this week.

Company of Heroes 2 was recently delayed from January to March 2013. For more details, check out our preview from September.