All units in Cossacks consume resources, some military forces are to be paid in gold, and artillery and handgun shots spend iron and coal. At the market one can sell, buy, and change resources, but the prices can change depending on the amount of resources at the market. This allows reducing the time-consuming resource management and bringing up the strategic role of deposits. Gold, iron, and coal are infinite at their deposits, and extraction is proportionate to mine workers' number. Stone is extracted from quarries, and gold, iron, and coal are mined.
Wood is extracted from forests food is grown in the fields and procured from the sea.
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, new lands capturing, defending boarders, and, of course, war against you enemies.Įconomy depends on six resources: food, wood, stone, gold, iron, and coal. 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. So grandiose battles of up to 8000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps. The new era began… with cannonade thunder and bullets' whine…Ĭossacks is a strategy game that allows becoming aware of historical events' large scale. It was the time when new regulations were developed in armies, and commanders' mastery was polished to perfection. Includes features such as: mission editor, random map generator, and various multiplayer modes.Cossacks is a historical real-time strategy based on events of XVI-XVIII centuries in Europe when nations and states were created and demolished, gold was turned to numerous armies, and neverending wars shed seas of blood. Historically accurate campaigns and realistically recreated battles where you can manage up to 8,000 units on the field at once.
There are only a few games like it and none of them match the perfect balance between realism and simplicity that made the Cossacks series so great.Ĭossacks Anthology includes: Cossacks: European Wars, Cossacks: The Art of War, and Cossacks: Back to War. With 20 unique nations (each with its own set of perks), 200 missions, sophisticated economic and political systems, and a polished multiplayer mode, it offers countless hours of top-notch strategy gaming. 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. The Cossacks series are a bestseller of the real-time strategy game genre that sold over 4 million copies worldwide.