Cossacks: European Wars

by Strategy First

Product Features

• Cossacks allows becoming aware of historical events' large scale.
• Grandiose battles of up to 8000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps.
• Includes a spacious encyclopedia about wars, battles, nations, technologies, armies, and units having been used in Europe in XVI-XVIII centuries.
• More than 85 large-scale wars and battles of XVI-XVIII centuries are available for single-player and multiplayer.
• Noteworthy wars are: Thirty Years War (1618-1648), the English revolution, the English and Dutch wars, the War for Spanish Succession, the Northern war, the War for Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, the Ukrainian independence war (1648-1657), sea wars against pirates, etc.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005A9W0
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.5 inches
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 25, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,647 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

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. 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. 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 war against any enemy. Thus, England is the mightiest sea power, Austria has powerful light and heavy cavalry, and Cossacks are the pride of the Ukrainian army.

Battles of up to 8,000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps. 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. 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.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For all you AOE, AOK and AOK:Conquerers Fans, March 17, 2001

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The Creater "ljadawin" (Tampa, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cossacks: European Wars (CD-ROM)

I'm an avid AOK:Conquerers player and I NEVER thought I would find a game that would blow it away. I've found it!!! The graphics are stuning. The detail in the buildings is extreme. The trees really look like trees. The peasants and military units perform their tasks with an almost lifelike grace.

Rifles, cannons mortars etc. all have different sounds and all produce puffs of smoke when they fire. The artillary bombardments are spectacular; actual explosions and clouds of smoke and flying debris when they hit a target.

The ships are very lifelike, especially in their movements.

Forget the 200 maximum on units... I just finished my first run thru on this game and had a maximum population limit of 1000 and could have gone higher. There are also LOADs of unit upgrades.

On a scale of 10 I rate this one a definate 12!!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best RTS now, April 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Cossacks: European Wars (CD-ROM)

I like RTS games, but all of have their own disadvantages. When I first played Cossacks, I was waiting to face a new one, but the only thing I found was advantages. The game is better than Age of Empires 2 and the magnitude of choices is unbelievable. The computer is clever and unpredictable and this makes the game very interesting. (If you play the game in the "Very-Hard" Mode, your possibilities to win are limited.) If you like RTS games, this is your next game.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COSSACKS: The Greatest Strategy Game Ever Made, April 25, 2001

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Kalina Bagrova (Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cossacks: European Wars (CD-ROM)

What can i say, The gamepay is exellent, the grafics are exellent, there is nothing i can find whitch is wrong with this game. These are the points i can think of that make this the greatest strategy game of all time...

1. The enemy attacks you in formation (not scattering its units like in age of empires or red alert).

2.it features loads of countries.

3.it is 100% historicaly accurate. the units themselves, tecnologies, formation of units,

4.in this game the population limit is 8000 (not 50, or 100 like in red alert or age of empires) + the computer does not crash even if you have 8000 units in play.

5. the grafics are brilliant, great attension has been given to the detail of the units. units are in proportion, they act so realiticaly, and are so finly detailed, that its almost as if in real life.

6. it has loads of units and upgrades, more than any other game ive seen n my life. every type of infantry or cavalry that ever existed in that time.

7. Every country has its oun type of buildings and units (unlike all other sutch games)

after playing the demo, and then getting the full game, i must say, this the only game i have not gotten bored of. for more info on the game, go to: www.cossacks.com