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. Gameplay File:3 cossacks european wars.jpg 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.
Ad-Hoc multiplayer play (offline mode).This addition causes the second add-on of Cossacks to pass the threshold of allowed gaming fun. These countries waged war in the late Middle Ages and essentially influenced the development of European military strategies. In addition, two new nations, Switzerland and Hungary, are included. This add-on contains 100 captivating missions taking place between the 16th and 18th centuries. Containing all of the gameplay features of Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: The Art of War, this is a complete care package for all current and future Cossacks fans. Extremely pleasant, on the other hand, is the stand-alone version Cossacks: Back to War. To stand alone in war is extremely unpleasant.