The Multiplayer Options menu allows you to adjust all game settings. The game will begin as soon as the "Start" button is activated. Once all players connected to a game have adjusted all settings available to them and clicked on "Ready", the player who created the game will see a "Start" button.Note: Only the player that created the game can select a battle. Once the LAN game has been created, other players will be able to join it. The Historical Wars menu allows you to select a battle to participate in. Historical Battle - Additional Information:Ħ.2.
After selecting a protocol, click on the "Create" button.Select a game type in the Multiplayer menu, i.e.Select the challenging Deathmatch mode or participate in a Historical Battle.
Units and buildings are extremely easy to capture a city will need walls or troops deployed everywhere to protect against raids.Up to seven people can play Cossacks via a modem, in a local area network or via the Internet.The availability of mercenaries - units for hire - available quickly and beyond a players technology level.Conversely, your peasents pretty much take care of themselves the tedious farm rebuilding element of AOE is absent.Cossacks has 6 seperate resources - food, wood, stone, iron, coal, and gold, making resource management a much larger part of the game.Formations are much more useful and important in Cossacks than Age of Kings. The addition of formations, groups of units controlled by an officer, make the large number of units more managable.The game allows (requires!) the players to build up many more units up to 8000 at once.Some of the significant differences in play between AOE and Cossacks:
That said, it introduces many innovative game play elements and stunningly beautiful, detailed and historically accurate artwork. This game will be a frusturating experience for anyone not already familiar with RTS strategy games, and AOE in particular. Also, the time period is much more focused - it covers two "Ages": the 17th century and the 18th century.Ĭossacks definately lacks the polish of AOE and AOK, unsurprising as the game was developed by a Ukranian company without the resources of Microsoft backing them up. Like the title suggests, all the nations are European, unlike Age of Empires which spans the globe. It allows the players to choose from a variety of nations, each with subtle strengths and weaknesses. It resembles the popular Age of Empires/ Age of Kings series of games, with a few key differences. Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game.
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