American Conquest: Fight Back

by CDV Software Entertainment

Product Features

• Epic real-time strategy with historical background spanning 300+ years of American history
• 8 historical campaigns spanning 42 missions; Pizarro's Expedition, the Seven Years War, & more
• Play as one of 12 different nations or tribes
• Engage up to 16,000 units in real-time battles
• For up to seven players via LAN of on the Internet

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000A385V
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 30, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,105 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The New World is ablaze in American Conquest, the newest real-time strategy offering from the makers of Cossacks! In the year 1492, travel to America as Christopher Columbus and ignite the fire that will fan 300 years of heated battles for land, riches, and freedom. In eight historical campaigns spanning 42 missions, you will take on the roles of great legends such as Francisco Pizarro and George Washington, commanding epic real-time battles with up to 16,000 soldiers on 3D landscapes. Secure new technologies, unique weaponry, and improved fighting units as well as master the delicate world of diplomacy. Play with fire! Conquer America!

Features:

• Epic real-time strategy with historical background
• Captivating real-time battles with up to 16,000 units
• Covers the era between 1492 and 1813
• 42 versatile missions in 8 thrilling campaigns e.g. Pizarro's Expedition, the War of Tecumseh, the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence
• 6 historical battles in multiplayer mode
• 9 separate single player missions
• 12 different nations and tribes: Spain, England, France, Aztecs, Incas, Mayas, Sioux, Delaware, Huron, Iroquois League, Pueblos, USA
• Over 100 different units and 106 buildings
• Tactical formations for infantry, cavalry and artillery using officers, drummers and standard bearers
• Realistic artillery effects, including gunner squadrons transporting and loading canon, as well as detonating canon balls
• Fighting morale is influenced by victories, defeats, food supplies, equipment and mercenary pay
• Apart from wide range attacks, all shooting units can fight with swords and knives (Cold Steel Attack)
• All buildings can be attacked, occupied and defended by troops
• Fortresses, forts and log cabins provide defensive advantages; units can also be accommodated and trained there
• Map scaling provides an extensive overview of the fighting action through a unique zoom perspective
• Huge maps (30x20 screens, 1024x768 pixels) and fascinating landscapes in four different climatic zones
• Detailed animation of all movements, including loading weapons
• Intricate diplomacy system allows players to build alliances with neutral tribes to trade for warriors and raw materials
• Natural environment can be used strategically: caves as hiding places or ambush starting points, hills extend the shooting range
• Multiplayer mode for up to 7 players via LAN or the Internet: Deathmatch, historical battles, automatic championship system and global rating system, War For America
• Detailed random maps in various sizes and with multiple settings for unlimited gaming fun
• Distinctly improved AI

Product Description

Three Centuries of War In the year 1492, travel to America as Christopher Columbus and ignite the fire that will fan 300 years of heated battles for land, riches and freedom. In eight historical campaigns spanning 42 missions, you will play the role of great legends such as Pizarro and Washington, commanding epic real-time battles containing up to 16,000 soldiers on 3D landscapes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Game, September 25, 2005

By 

Peter Deadman (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Conquest: Fight Back (CD-ROM)

American Conquest is a gem of a game, in my view. I never expected that it would be so good when I got the demo on the magazine CD. I played it, and it was what I had been looking for all this time! It was an RTS game which makes you think about things. Your troops don't magically appear from buildings, you have to put peasants in them to train them. The variety of micromanagement and constructions tasks are really nice. I was a AOK convert before this, but now, I simply love the way that this handles things.

It doesn't have the best graphics, true, it has some annoying quirks, true, but it is simply one of the most innovative RTS games out there.

And it is many times better than Cossacks II which was simply awful...but that is another story.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best historical war-strategy games, January 23, 2004

By 

V. Basok "volbas" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Conquest: Fight Back (CD-ROM)

This is a stand-alone add-on to the American Conquest (so you don't need actual AC - it's included), sequel to Russian-built Cossacks.
New features (copied but edited from developers site):
- new "Battlefield" mode: 20 battles for single - and multi-player
- 40 new buildings and over 50 new units
- 8 campaigns consisting of 25 new missions in total Global rating system
- 10 new single missions
- 17 different nations and tribes, including 5 new ones: Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal Haida
- Game events covering the period of 1517 to 1804
- Map 4X zooming in-out.
The rest I think is the same as AC.
Game didn't have any "hype" in the US, so it's almost unknown (except among those who played Cossacks).
Good solid war-strategy game. History is as accurate as it could be in the game (probably the most accurate out there). Graphics are very good with some minor glitches (like soldiers walking through the trees). Music is somewhat annoying, but other sounds are Ok.
Truth in battle - a group of soldiers is nothing (dead in 5 sec) comparing to the unit of soldiers of the same size (no Terminators); moral influences units fighting ability; height somewhat counts to the range of fire.
Multiplayer,.. oh well - if you live by European time you can find some really good players, but learn some russian :)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Put aside almost any other RTS game, March 22, 2004

By 

avilr "avilr" (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American Conquest: Fight Back (CD-ROM)

If you are currently playing, and having a lot of fun, with some of the following:

.- Cossacks European Wars and/or Cossacks The Art of War (I know there is another Cossacks sequel, but never played it)
.- Empire Earth and/or Empire Earth - The Art of Conquest
.- Stronghold and/or Stronghold Crusader
.- Praetorians
.- Legion
.- War & Peace
.- Seven Kingdoms I & II
.- No Man's Land
.- Age of Empires and/or AOE Rise of Rome and/or AOE II Age of Kings and/or AOE II The Conquerors

Stop playing, go shopping and get ACFB, if you liked "Cossacks" (any version) a lot, you'll fall for this game.

Let put it this way, "Cossacks" is an animated, cartoon film. ACFB is a real full fledged movie.

Is true you need some hardware strengh, but in the Cossacks' way. No that much as AOE II, which, playing against the computer, with 400-500 units both sides, you always know when your foe is going to attack you because ... when it's setting its army the computer doesn't let you play !!

My Athlon 1 GHZ, 512 MB of RAM and NVIDIA GForce 2 PCI 32 MB video card, plays Cossacks, Empire Earth, Stronghold, Praetorians and War & Peace fast, very responsive to the mouse at 1024 x 768 x 16. The new ACFB is just playable, I just won my first single map, fighting (going North from Florida) with Spaniards against Brittons, with more than 3,000 units both sides.

For the first moment you get impressed by this game. When you see in the screen the first bunch of peasants, waiting for your orders, they are wandering and fooling around just like any real workers squad without a supervisor !!

The design, accuracy and realism of the buildings is amazing. The same for landscape: trees, terrain, rocks.

At $30.00, it's a steal.