Absolutely, imageine a type of command and conqueor, or even better, Warhammer 40000, Dawn of War, it is exactly the same as COH manily becauase they are made by THQ. You capture stragic points to advance your rescourse and buld infantry squads, MG, Mortars and snipers all in there own squads, which can be uprgaded with new weapons. For example you can uprage your rangers to assualt rangers with thompson machine guns, so 2 have bazooka,s and th rest thompsons. You can call off map arty supports, and of course build various ttypes of armoured units, such as the panther, Sherman, StuG, armoured cars, bren carriers and even field guns such as the german 75mm. All this of course depends on what country you are playing, if you are american you cant buld german equipment, However you can capture MGs, mortars, dropped small arms, panzershrecks or even the field pieces assuming that they werent destroyed in the attack.
Defensives can be built suhc as mines, barbed wire, dragons teeth, bunkers trenchs, you can garrison buildings and turn them into barracks, or all the holes in the map actually protect your men from incoming fire.
Get this game.
I reconmend this game, because I am a sucker for realism, and other then the units 'health" bars it is vvery realistic.