They also added nuclear weapons and aliens, removed any unit limits, and magic worked differently. MrFlibble wrote:The guys who made Cossacks started as an indie team with a fan-made Warcraft II "sequel" called Warcraft 2000: Nuclear Epidemic.Įssentially, this game uses graphics, music and sounds from Warcraft II (and fonts from Diablo), but the engine and game mechanics were written from scratch. de&strip=1 He missed to check the file dates though and the responses to his question weren't very interesting either.)ĭownload of 4 different demos (including the early one): Seemingly, the full game also features some of the files and back in 2002 a user named bobx over at the official Cossacks forums posted about them. (I must add that I am not the first person to notice the Orc files. Orcs.nds from mid 1999 already has the 17th and 18th century contents that we know from Cossacks.
I suspect, they used Warcraft 2 sprites and names for testing their engine back in 1998, before implementing all the historical units that the final game uses. The game system is arranged to reduce per-unit control and resource micromanagement, and to turn to global goals of powerful economy formation, science development, the capturing of new lands, and defending borders.As we can see it's a 1:1 Warcraft 2 ripoff. One can carry out lingering city sieges, wage guerilla wars, capture commanding heights and arrange ambushes, deploy landing forces on enemy shores, and conduct sea battles. Thus, England is the mightiest sea power, Austria has powerful light and heavy cavalry, and Cossacks are the pride of the Ukrainian army.īattles of up to 8,000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps. Each has its own original graphics, economic and technical development peculiarities, military advantages and drawbacks, and unique units and technologies, providing vast choices of tactics and strategy in war against any enemy. There are 16 nations or regions in Cossacks: Algeria, Austria, England, France, the Netherlands, Piemonte, Poland, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venice.
Cossacks: European Wars is a historical real-time strategy based on events of the 16th through the 18th centuries in Europe, when nations and states were created and demolished, and wars shed seas of blood.
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