Cossacks

[mehuk]

I see these old classics are on Steam now... the II are not any good iirc, but I loved Art of War, although the AI had to be manipulated by some mod to do things properly.

However it was the first game that had huge battles that I remember... graphics not amazing, but good at the time... plus loads of units and online it was glitchy but when you got a good game it was worth it.

Anyone else play them?

 

[Chives]

I would if I could get them to work on Windows 7, constant crashes

 

[Puppetmaster]

I remember on the old school cossacks that i had issues even running it on xp i think, fixed by renaming the video folder (if you cant get it to even load atleast)

 

[Cold_And_Miserable]

I had several douzen recordings of 60 minute peace-time games years ago.

You upgrade your economy, mines, get to the 18thC, use the market double-trade exploit and mass 18thC dragoons since they owned everything else. With all the lag I usually got 70-100 dragoons when the fight began and 2 18th century barracks.

The best player I've ever seen managed to get 4 18th century barracks once by 60 minutes using fishing ships.

Cossacks is easily the best RTS game ever made.

 

[pingwing]

Going to have to get this! Remember playing it at a mates and finding it painfully difficult when I was 13...

 

[Andrew_McP]

I played the original Cossacks (only offline) far more than I care to admit. I've rarely played a game where I could "accidentally" lose five or six hours so easily, thinking I was making progress on a particularly tough level, only to fail as earlier decisions came back to bite me.

Even as I type there's a little bit of me itching to replay some of the levels I never quite managed to beat on Hard.

Cossacks II was a big disappointment to me. It felt like a completely different type of game. I tried, but they'd just made it too complicated for me to enjoy.

 

[mehuk]

I remember Ukraine being tough early on with those Cossack horsemen and their wild swords swirling around... but once you could get out the horse riflemen into a good formation you could stop them

Things like putting your pikemen into a square and that cannon grapeshot that raped whole lines stand out to me.

 

[Riddell]

I see American Conquest is up as well which I thought was amazing at the time.

 

[Cold_And_Miserable]

I remember Ukraine being tough early on with those Cossack horsemen and their wild swords swirling around... but once you could get out the horse riflemen into a good formation you could stop them
Things like putting your pikemen into a square and that cannon grapeshot that raped whole lines stand out to me.

Ukraine was weakest early on ! It's mid to late-game where they get unbearably strong. The serdiuk riflemen are lethal once they reach maximum damage and register cossacks train quickly.
Register cossacks alone owned the Europeans by mid-game.

I see American Conquest is up as well which I thought was amazing at the time.

American Conquest was never much good. The slowest unit takes 4 hours to cross a huge map apparently, not to mention heavily garrisoned buildings are almost invincible and can only be destroyed by said slow unit.

 

[mehuk]

Ukraine was weakest early on ! It's mid to late-game where they get unbearably strong. The serdiuk riflemen are lethal once they reach maximum damage and register cossacks train quickly.
Register cossacks alone owned the Europeans by mid-game.
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Oh, I just remember those swirly swords rushing at me and seeing my men get chopped up.

Might get it to revive memories if it hits the sales.

 

[Holdon Tight]

I still have this game, will it run on win7?

 

[mart981]

The originals used to have the dreaded Starforce on them, at least the second one anyway. Does this get taken out if it's now on steam?