Formations may be made by grouping exactly 15, 36, 72, 120 or 196 of a single unit type in the presence of a corresponding officer and drummer.
They can, however, also be captured by enemy troops and turned to the enemy's allegiance.Ĭossacks depart from common RTS titles in that military actions may be conducted by assigning formations to soldiers or allowing them to attack solitarily without proper formations. The economic workforce consists of peasants who can multitask and also attack enemy soldiers. Similarly, a lack of coal and iron means that shooters and cannons will cease to fire their weapons whereas a lack of gold will mean that units which require maintenance paid will commit mutiny against the state. Depleted resources would result in an undesirable penalty for the player such as a lack of food will signify a famine for the state and the player's units will die from lack of supplies. Depending on the type of unit or structure being built, the amount of resources needed to create a unit/structure would inflate quantitatively with each successive one built or trained.
Wood and stone are gathered by conventional means and there are also specific areas where these may be collected. Gold, iron and coal may only be acquired by constructing mines over a designated resource area and sending peasants into them whereas food is cultivated from mills and via the use of fishing boats. These are gold, wood, food, stone, iron and coal. There are 6 basic resources in the game that are crucial to the player's military victory. This top selling title has won two awards and was positively favoured by a majority of reviewers. Even today the only games that can come close to comparing to Cossacks in the area of unit count are found in the Total War series.Ĭossacks is a game which allows the user to gain strategy skills and even pick up some relative history of that period by the inclusion of a comprehensive encyclopedia. This ability set it apart from other games of the time such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth. Mission scenarios range from conflicts such as Thirty Years' War to the War of the Austrian Succession, and renowned for the seemingly infinite number of units players may control. Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, building construction and simple resource gathering. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and units. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe.
Pentium 200 MHz CPU, 32 Mb RAM, 1 Mb Video RAM, 200Mb HDD, 4x CD-ROM, Sound card, DirectX 6.0.Ĭossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game for Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World.
Online Play - Compete against or in cooperation with other armchair emperors via LAN or Internet connection.Strategy First and cdv Software Entertainment (re-release).Realistic Troop Morale System - Only well-led, well-provisioned troops live long enough to grow in experience and become valuable battlefield assets.Forge treaties, devise treacheries, or simply buy your opponents' loyalties. There's More To Winning Than Combat - Learn to weaken your enemies economically before the first musket volley is fired.Varied Game Play - Enjoy the strategic campaign for the dominance of Europe, follow in the footsteps of emperors and generals in history-inspired battles, or duke it out in open-ended skirmishes.Massive Historical Battles - Fight through battles of the 19th century, with massive armies colliding in varied types of terrain and weather.Whether fighting as Napoleon's highly disciplined "Grand Arme", the tenacious Russians and their Cossack horseback warriors, the Austrians, Britons, Prussians, or Egyptians, the challenges will be daunting as you master weapons and tactics during a time that redefined modern warfare. In Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, lead your 19th century army to glory in this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally acclaimed Cossacks: European Wars.