Gold, iron and coal may only be acquired by constructing mines over a designated resource area and sending peasants into them whereas food is cultivated from mills and via the use of fishing boats. These are gold, wood, food, stone, iron and coal. There are 6 basic resources in the game that are crucial to the player's military victory.
The game has won two awards and was positively favoured by a majority of reviewers. This ability set it apart from other games of the time such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth.Ĭossacks is a game which allows the user to gain strategy skills and learn history of that period by the inclusion of a comprehensive encyclopedia. Mission scenarios range from conflicts such as Thirty Years' War to the War of the Austrian Succession, and the game is renowned for the seemingly unlimited number of units players may control. Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, building construction and simple resource gathering. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and no limit on unit numbers. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe. Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World.
