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I used to play table-top Napoleonic wargames with miniatures; so when Cossacks first came out years ago I bought it and had a lot of fun with it. Basically it is table-top wargaming brought to the PC with decent animations and sounds etc. The AI is pretty basic but relentless. You will have to learn how to properly organise and field your forces if you want to win. Overall a decent RTS; and if you like the historical period this game is definitely worth getting.

I'm writing it after two years. I bought this game here at GoG in the middle of 2017 for my Father who just retired, because he loved strategy games and his old PC crashed at that time (gave my old laptop to him too). He used to play Cossacks along with Aztecs and AoE for many years. He would come back from work and sit for many hours just playing and talking with us at the same time. I would sit beside him and he would always enthusiastically explain to me how each troop and building work. He passed 2018. And i still miss him. And this game will always remind me of him, and as i can't find our old CD version i appreciate that GoG has this version. If over 60 year old man can play this game for over 300h and really enjoy it then money are really well spent.

TL;DR: Download this .. rename the ddraw.dll to mdraw.dll ... plop it into the game folder, replacing the bad dll. https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases My game was frozen when I started it (beyond the main menu) even though it worked fine the first time I ran it (but never afterwards, no matter how many reinstallations.) I have tried very much every solution I could find .. but nothing worked. Turns out, the ddraw.dll which has been bundled into this game is the source of all problems, does not work on Windows 10. I did not discover this solution, I found the answer on a different forum for a different game - but it worked fine here. Cheers to the person whose name I don't remember.

I still remember as young teenager getting this game. I enjoyed it so much that I showed it to my father, who started playing and mastering it with me. Since there was no DRM back then, we had no trouble copying the CD & installing it on my fathers computer. What resulted was 1-4 hour long LAN matches on the weekends. The game has standard RTS elements such as AoE style resource gathering. Stone, gold & wood among others. These resources are used to build units & buildings. Advancing in technology is as you'd expect in a standard RTS. Certain unit types excel in certain situations. The way the game is set up, it encourages you to engage in the lined formation fighting of the era. Have mortars showering the enemy front lines from behind your own, have cannons roll out infront of your troops (they can actually kill your own men if they are infront of it) rain hell on the enemy before you push up. Use cavalry to flank positions or raid enemy workers. Build an extensive navy of Ships of the Line, frigates and even the ultra powerful "Victoria" super battleship. Overall, it is probably the best late 18th century style RTS's. In conclusion the game is not perfect, but its good enough that it gave me and my father many nights of explosion, musket blasts & naval combat that would make Washington proud.

Игра супер. Но блин, почему нет на русском? Я то английский знаю. Просто наша же игра. Ну хоть бы украинский сделали. У меня была пиратка в детстве, там поболее языков было. Тут это было бы лучше для атмосферы