


Depending on the type of unit or structure being built, the amount of resources needed to create a unit/structure would inflate quantitatively with each successive one built or trained. Wood and stone are gathered by conventional means and there are also specific areas where these may be collected. Gold, iron and coal may only be acquired by constructing mines over a designated resource area and sending peasants into them whereas food is cultivated from mills and via the use of fishing boats. These are gold, wood, food, stone, iron and coal. There are 6 basic resources in the game that are crucial to the player's military victory.

This top selling title has won two awards and was positively favoured by a majority of reviewers. Even today the only games that can come close to comparing to Cossacks in the area of unit count are found in the Total War series.Ĭossacks is a game which allows the user to gain strategy skills and even pick up some relative history of that period by the inclusion of a comprehensive encyclopedia. This ability set it apart from other games of the time such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth. Mission scenarios range from conflicts such as Thirty Years' War to the War of the Austrian Succession, and renowned for the seemingly infinite number of units players may control. Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, building construction and simple resource gathering. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and units. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe. Pentium 200 MHz CPU, 32 Mb RAM, 1 Mb Video RAM, 200Mb HDD, 4x CD-ROM, Sound card, DirectX 6.0.Ĭossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game for Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. Strategy First and cdv Software Entertainment (re-release)
