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EDIT:.COSSACKS NOW WORKS ON WINDOWS 10 WITH NO ISSUES AT ALL. PLEASE REINSTALL YOUR GAME.Windows 71) Install as normal.2) Download3) It should work.Windows 81) Remove Video from the install directory.2) Download3) Still doesn't work? Try the Win10 Solution.Windows 101) Get VirtualBox and a copy of Windows XP.2) Get the Windows XP made into an.iso3) Launch a VM within VirtualBox4) Install XP in VirtualBox5) Install the Guest Additions for VirtualBox VMs6) Reboot your Windows XP machine7) Install Cossacks through a transient folder and an.iso mounter such as WinCDEmuIF YOU NEED HELP WITH THE WIN10 SOLUTION, FEEL FREE TO ASK FOR MORE HELP.

System Requirements -Pentium 233 or equivalent32Mb RAM400Mb hard drive spaceDirectX graphics cardEpic And this is a relatively small fight, just a hundred cavalry and a couple of dozen cannonsAt first sight Cossacks looks like a straightforward Age of Empiresclone - a historical real-time strategy game featuring all thefamiliar base building, gold mining, stone quarrying and woodchopping of Ensemble's games, but set in the 17th and 18thcenturies.What sets Cossacks apart is its epic scope. There is a sprawlingtech tree to research with literally hundreds of upgrades andtechnologies to discover, ranging from improved armour and weaponsfor your various troop types to reconnaissance balloons. There areno less than 16 seperate nationalities to play as, ranging fromEngland and France to Saxony and the Ukraine, many of them withtheir own unique units and graphics. Perhaps most impressive thoughis the ability to have anything up to eight thousandsoldiers in a single battle without any serious slow downs.Needless to say this can make things pretty hectic at times, andluckily the mouse-driven interface is simplicity itself, with allthe niceties you would expect from a modern real-time strategygame. Troops can be set up to follow a series of waypoints, groupedtogether into hotkey-selectable armies, and told to hold their fireor attack everything they see on their way to their destination.You can even assign them to line, column or square formations,although unfortunately these are less useful than they should be asthey are rather clumsy to manoeuvre. And whereas in a hardcorewargame being in a formation would give you some sort of defensiveor morale bonus, in Cossacks it doesn't seem to give any obviousadvantages, apart from looking pretty in screenshots.Campaign Now that's what I call a townFor those of you new to the genre or wanting to brush up on theslight control differences between this and similar titles, thereis an entire tutorial campaign to ease you into the game andintroduce all the basic concepts. In addition to the tutorial thereare four 'real' campaigns, varying from cleaning pirates out of theCaribbean to battling your way across France or Eastern Europe.

Allof this is (rather loosely) based on real European wars andbattles.These campaigns are at times incredibly difficult, often limitingthe units you can use or even sending you into battle with no wayof replenishing your lost troops, and then throwing hordes ofenemies at your ill-prepared and poorly balanced army. Somemissions are virtually impossible to complete, and will require youto work out the right approach or even to rely on exploiting anyweaknesses you can find in the AI.Sadly these are all too common. Your opponent is surprisinglypassive unless it has been pre-scripted to attack you, and itsoffensives are often rather piecemeal. You can usually find smallgroups of enemy troops standing around doing nothing, and sometimesthey will continue to do nothing as you bombard them from a safedistance with artillery or small arms fire, especially if they arewaiting for a trigger or timer in the mission script.

They are alsoeasily tricked by simply opening and closing your city gates - asthe gates open the enemy rushes towards you, only to stop dead orwithdraw as you close them again. Well-placed cannons, defensivetowers or musketeers can gradually whittle away vastly superiorforces in this way, and in one of the campaign missions you areactually advised to exploit this by an in-game message!Uphill Battle Pretty, innit?If the campaigns are mostly too hard, the ten stand-alone scenariosare too easy. At first they will prove a challenge, but as youstart to work out the weaknesses of the AI, which troops to use inwhich situations and what order to construct buildings and researchtechologies in, you will soon find that defeating the computer ismore a case of persistence than skill. On a level playing field theAI simply isn't up to the job, and sadly this also makes randomskirmish games rather unrewarding for more experienced players.Overall the game seems to be fairly well balanced, using acomplicated kind of rock, paper and scissors relationship wherebyevery troop type has its own strengths and vulnerabilities.Defensive towers are devestating, especially against largeformations of infantry, but cannons and mortars have a longerfiring range and can destroy them without getting close enough forthe tower to respond. Cannons must be escorted by other soldiersthough, as fast-moving enemy cavalry could easily capture anyunprotected artillery.

In fact the only good all-roundunit is the grenadier, which can use its rifle at medium range,defend itself with a bayonet in melee, and use grenades to demolishwalls and towers at close range.In another nod to realism, terrain has a much greater effect ongameplay in Cossacks than in most other real-time strategy games.Walking uphill slows an army down and units on top of a plateau orhill will have a slightly higher firing range than those below,giving you more opportunity to annihilate any attacking infantry orcavalry with musketeers and artillery. This means that occupyingthe high ground is a highly effective strategy, and when combinedwith towers on top of nearby hills and short lengths of wall tolink highland areas and prevent your enemy from getting on to them,this can add a lot to your defences.Europe At War The latter stages of one of the bigger historical battles, with a few hundred soldiers on screenWhere these kinds of strategies really come into their own is themultiplayer mode, which supports up to seven players in any singlebattle. Getting into a game is easy thanks to a built-in serverbrowser and chat lobby, and the random map generator used for thevast majority of internet games (as well as AI skirmishes) ishighly customisable, allowing you to decide everything from thegeneral layout of the battlefield (islands, continental, in-landsea etc) to how rugged the terrain is and how common resources are.There are also several multiplayer-only historical battles whichyou can re-enact online, with two armies fighting it out to achievetheir objectives in a preset map. Unfortunately very few peopleseem to be willing to play these, and the sheer number of unitswhich you start with in some of them can prove a bit overwhelming.Overall the multiplayer mode is probably the most enjoyable way ofplaying the game, although the sheer scale of the game can makebattles a little longwinded. Most players will ask for at leasthalf an hour of 'peace time' at the beginning of every match,during which you will not attack each other. Crusaders of solaria. Your first few battleswill probably end just minutes after this truce ends, as the enemyoverwhelms your pathetic defences. Once you know what you are doingand can put up more of a fight though, battles can sometimes lastanything up to three or four hours, with anything up to an hour ofpeace time at the beginning.