Cossacks: European Wars

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.

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!!


The Best RTS now   April 19, 2001
16 out of 16 found this review helpful

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.


COSSACKS: The Greatest Strategy Game Ever Made   April 25, 2001
Kalina Bagrova (Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa)
24 out of 26 found this review helpful

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


Cossacks is actually one of the best RTS-Games   March 25, 2001
Simon Loesing (Bremen, Germany)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful

If you're a RTS-Fan, Cossacks: European Wars is a must for you... I've been really suprised as I played it for the first time a few days ago. The Graphics are the best I've ever seen in a 2D RTS Game, there are even much more better than those in Age Of Empires 2. The Game balance's nearly perfect.

The most interesting thing about Cossacks, is that it's the first game ever with a realistic number of combat units, indeed you can handle more than 8000 Units... Isn't that fantastic?

In a word, Cossacks' a game which provides you a high gaming pleasure and a long time motivation...


MUCH BETTER THAN AGE OF EMPIRES 2   October 28, 2001
A 12-year old gamer (Darnestown, Maryland, USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

I bought this game after a friend recommended it to me, claiming it is, "What Age of Empires 2 should have been. I gave it five stars, even though there are several cons about it.

As for the pros, there is everything printed on the back of the box, such as 8,000 units on a single battlefield, which you are probably familiar with from the other reviews. I personally think that the campaigns on Cossacks are much better than the AOK campaigns; there are more realistic, more difficult, and last for a very long time. The artificial intelligence is great. The computer players actually have some strategy, and you, the human player, can't just march up to the enemy and conquer them as in AOK, but has to have some strategy. It is much more realistic than AOK. People actually eat, for one thing.

One con is that people don't follow orders very well. You order them to attack one unit, and they attack another unit in another direction. Next, you can't destroy guarded seige weapons unless you destroy the huge formations of pikemen and heavy riders surrounding them. Also, there is no map editor. Despite these cons, I would highly recommend any real time strategy lover to get this game.