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I was a little afraid when I bought this game without looking into the forum first. Many people seem to have some problems to get it running. Mine works fine and it is a blast! It took some time to get used to the high numbers of troops you need and the resource management, but it is totally worth it.

I can't get any of the games to work, even with the .dll fix mentioned by another reviewer. OS: Edition Windows 10 Home, Version 22H2, Build 19045.4894 "dmcr.exe - Application Error The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000022). Click OK to close the application." I'm super sad, as these games belong to my favorite games from childhood. I hope GOG can bring a fix soon.

I've got the series on disc. Back in the day this was quite fun in it's way, though I just can't understand all the rave reviews because this is definitely not in any way at all "tabletop wargaming" brought to the PC. There are no tactics or strategy, at least from the AI. It just builds units and sends them in a lumpy stream without proper formations or co-ordination. However, there were at least some naval elements to the fighting (something which elsewhere back then was pretty much non-existent), and at least for raiding ships the lack of a proper battle-AI was much less problematic. And it looked nice and was more than just fighting as you had to build a bit etc. Still, I felt cheated because the pics on the boxes always showed some fantastic formations in huge battles, and that just doesn't happen. If you're interested, I'd suggest you instead start with their American Conquest: Fight Back game, and play as a colonial power, that way the lack of proper or huge enemy combined unit formations or any pretty battlefield manoeuvres really don't matter so much because the tribes didn't really employ them and nor did the colonials employ them as much. Thus the endless stream of skirmishers trying to slowly overwhelm your fledgling colony seems less unrealistic.

I love the gameplay. I am generally not a big fan of old games. This one is a rare exception. The game back in 2001 was revolutionary due to the amount of characters it can have on screen at once which was much more than AOE at the time and character management was and still is great. Surprisingly graphics are still great by todays standards and the best part is they run on a potato PC. I was an 11 year old kid when I first got my grubby little hands on this game and could not put it down. I am 28 now and nostalgia aside I am very happy on how well the game aged and still plays with great satisfaction today. It rivals newer strategy games despite being about 17 years old and offering similar fun levels as compared to newer games of this style. I find that a bit shocking myself. That is something most games can not achieve.

I have played Cossacks series when I was younger. Really fun game. Will even work on slow computers with thousands of soldiers. I thought it might not work with my windows 7 and fast computer but no issues so far.