American Conquest + Fight Back

I loved the first Cossacks game, and I loved American Conquest series even more. To my knowledge, it's one of the very few RTS where you can control over 1000 of units, and still every single soldier and peasant makes a difference. I remember holding a group of conquered buildings with only about 25 musketeers, and I remember famine killing hundereds of my people when enemy conquered one of my farms. That's the spirit of American Conquest - you seldom win a game purely by military domination, recruiting enough units and making a nice formations, ready to deal a single killing blow. No, much more often you need to be diversive, evasive, and always ready. Managing your economy, fighting small skirmishes outside your main settlement... and preparing a greater strike force. And the battles! So spectacular, yet so chaotic! American Conquest offers 15 very diverse nations, each with completely different playstyle, basically describable as NA Indians, SA Indians, and colonists. It has well-crafted historical campaings for all three "sides", fair skirmishes and random maps, and awesome multiplayer, comparable maybe to Age of Empires 2. Hopefully, GOG will provide us the last installment, Divided Nation in time....

I run the game and I get this error direct draw init failed, the cinematic is shown and the game closes automatically

So I just bought it in a sale and tried it over, as many reviews complained it wasn't working on Win10. For me, it worked flawlessly, didn't have to tweak anything at all. Graphics holding better than I thought they would. Hours of fun ahead !

Very unique nations with different styles, and amazing music make this my favourite Title from the Series. The setting is rather neglected as well. Great Game overall

American Conquest is... great. I just wish it was better. Perhaps the fact that I never got to play it when I was a child (our pirated copy didn't work, neither did the retail copy we were given by a cousin) means I can't position it in the timeframe it came out in. The art is amazing. The sprite work and the buildings are gorgeous. However... controlling all those units? Feels horrible. Chiefs take WAAAAAAYYY too much to train. I could train 120 trash units while training a chief. Then I need a chaman. So I could have 200 more units instead of that. Then you have the limits formations and the fact that destroying buildings is... a mess. Yeah, controlling armies becomes a mosh pit. The music... repeats too much? I wish there was more variation. The sountrack seems to be bigger but I kept hearing the same songs again and again. Idk, I just wish the game was better. I wished it had more campaigns. They were very fun. I wish the "random map" created a random map instead of... the same map always? The Tecumtech campaign as the natives was VERY fun. I want American Conquest 2 I guess. I played 22 hours in like a week. I could play more.