The second is represented by random parameters: map size, terrain type, climate, number of deposits, etc.
The gameplay contains a transition between the 17th and 18th centuries, if a number of conditions are met, such as the construction of certain structures and the amount of resources. Units can mine wood, food, stone, gold, iron and coal.
Although the amount of resources required for each power may vary, it is generally necessary to obtain 50, food, 10, gold, 5, iron and build a Barracks, Academy, Stable, Depot, Market and Cathedral. Some mechanics are directly tied to the extraction of resources. For example, if there is no coal, then warriors and catapults will not be able to shoot fiery projectiles, and mercenaries will refuse to act as allies if they stop paying salaries..
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Your property was freely available and that is why it was published on our website. Cossacks Anthology a similar isometric view visual style, the scale of the unit, the iconic interface, display of resources, and map. Villagers harvested materials like wood, stone and gold. Priests act as auxiliaries to their troops, and military units working historically based essentially on a simple model of combat, in which each unit is specialized in attacks on other unit paper-scissors-stone.
Fortunately, there is a little Cossacks Anthology who first meets the eye. You can enjoy a wealth of diversity, if nothing else. Each nation fields a variety of military units from four basic categories: infantry, cavalry, artillery and navy. With two expansion packs of its own, plus a spin-off game, American Conquest which also has its own expansion , the Cossacks formula has certainly been well used and the engine now looks rather dated alongside fully 3D RTS games.
But if you're a hardcore strategy fan and a virgin to Cossacks, it's well worth investing five shiny coins for this. The 17th and 18th centuries are often referred to as the Age of Enlightenment.
Rarely do we hear about the almost constant warfare going on around the continent of Europe during these centuries. Cossacks , another real time strategy title, covers this time period and illustrates an era rarely covered in any media, let alone a computer game, especially in the US. This was a time when one of the most powerful armies marching hither and yon across the map belonged to Yes, the perpetually neutral Swedes were fearsome fighters then, as the poor Poles can attest.
Cossacks is an entry in what has become known as the real time strategy genre. More appropriately called continuous action strategy, these games with no turns have settled on a general set of conventions. There is the oblique aspect main map showing part of the game area, a smaller map showing the entire game space and various information boxes that reflect the game situation.
All are well executed here. You control your peasants in the usual manner, directing them to work the land or build structures. The structures represent facilities needed to process resources, outlets for training and recruiting military units or focal points for investment in research. Your military units then can stay at home to protect your base of operations, or roam the map looking for conquest. The game is comprehensive in its coverage of the period.
There are 16 nations representing the armies that had a role in the conflicts of the time, including some unlikely entries like Algeria, Venice and the Piedmont Northern Italy in addition to more well-known nations like England, Prussia, France and Russia. The varying capabilities of the nationalities are represented by some unique units -- such as the game's namesake Cossacks, available to Russia and Ukraine and other nations via the mercenary feature -- and unit combat parameters.
Sadly though, history buffs can't stage any historic encounter they please -- the Turkish siege of Vienna in , for instance -- because there's no scenario builder. The best you can do is put the two nations down in a random map game and try to capture the flavor of the encounter. For the solitaire player, there are Campaigns -- linked single battle scenarios, such as the "War of Independence" Ukrainian, not American and France's "Thirty Years War. In multiplayer mode you and some networked friends can fight historical battles or generate random map deathmatches.
Except for the random map, the types of games that can be played in either multiplayer or single-player modes are mutually exclusive. A single player can play campaigns and single missions, but these are not available in multiplayer. In multiplayer, you can play historical battles -- single battle scenarios based on real events -- but there are no campaigns or single missions.
Happily, however, the random game generator is available in both modes. Microsoft's Age of Empires series might be regarded as the benchmark for this type of game, since it's the most successful, so here's a list not meant to be comprehensive of some ways Cossacks differs from AoE , both for good and bad:. Ways that Cossacks falls a bit short of the standard: - Players used to AoE will be disappointed at the lack of information about what the cursor is hovering over when moving it around the main map.
The resources especially give no clue as to what they are, either when clicked or hovered. We can surmise that we'll get wood from the clump of trees over there, but where do we get stone? Ah, must be that pattern of rocks strewn around that field.
Yes, those holes in the ground support the mines, but which are iron and which are coal? You don't really know until you've built a mine or two. Gold can be spotted fairly easily.
There are little gold nuggets visible. Some things must be learned by trial and error. The peasants don't "build and work," they build and stand there. Although there is a button for highlighting all idle peasants, there is no toggle for moving from one to the next.
This seems an unnecessarily harsh cultural judgment in a computer game.
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