


What makes Cossacks shine among other RTS games is its depth and lasting appeal. The result is an almost perfect, and quite realistic, strategy game in which you can write your own version of post-Renaissance European history. This pack includes the original Cossacks and its two expansions in which the developers really took the feedback from the fans into consideration, and through that they managed to improve the game even further. Winners of the PC Zone - Award for Excellence, and they are an unquestionable gem in the genre. As in the extremely popular Age of Empires or the contemporarily released Fate of the Dragon, Cossacks is set in a historically accurate past, in this case. The game system is arranged to reduce per-unit control and resource micromanagement, and to turn to global goals of powerful economy formation, science development, the capturing of new lands, and defending borders.The Cossacks series are a bestseller of the real-time strategy game genre that sold over 4 million copies worldwide. One can carry out lingering city sieges, wage guerilla wars, capture commanding heights and arrange ambushes, deploy landing forces on enemy shores, and conduct sea battles.

Thus, England is the mightiest sea power, Austria has powerful light and heavy cavalry, and Cossacks are the pride of the Ukrainian army.īattles of up to 8,000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps. Cossacks: European Wars takes players back in time to historical events of 16th to 18th Century Europe and immerses them into epic battles with hundreds. Each has its own original graphics, economic and technical development peculiarities, military advantages and drawbacks, and unique units and technologies, providing vast choices of tactics and strategy in the war against any enemy. There are 16 nations or regions in Cossacks: Algeria, Austria, England, France, the Netherlands, Piemonte, Poland, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venice. Cossacks: European Wars is a historical real-time strategy based on events of the 16th through the 18th centuries in Europe when nations and states were created and demolished, and wars shed seas of blood.
