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For the solitaire player, there are Campaigns -- linked single battle scenarios, such as the "War of Independence" Ukrainian, not American and France's "Thirty Years War. In multiplayer mode you and some networked friends can fight historical battles or generate random map deathmatches.

Except for the random map, the types of games that can be played in either multiplayer or single-player modes are mutually exclusive. A single player can play campaigns and single missions, but these are not available in multiplayer. In multiplayer, you can play historical battles -- single battle scenarios based on real events -- but there are no campaigns or single missions.

Happily, however, the random game generator is available in both modes. Microsoft's Age of Empires series might be regarded as the benchmark for this type of game, since it's the most successful, so here's a list not meant to be comprehensive of some ways Cossacks differs from AoE , both for good and bad:.

Ways that Cossacks falls a bit short of the standard: - Players used to AoE will be disappointed at the lack of information about what the cursor is hovering over when moving it around the main map. The resources especially give no clue as to what they are, either when clicked or hovered. We can surmise that we'll get wood from the clump of trees over there, but where do we get stone? Ah, must be that pattern of rocks strewn around that field.

Yes, those holes in the ground support the mines, but which are iron and which are coal? You don't really know until you've built a mine or two. Gold can be spotted fairly easily. There are little gold nuggets visible. Some things must be learned by trial and error. The peasants don't "build and work," they build and stand there. Although there is a button for highlighting all idle peasants, there is no toggle for moving from one to the next. This seems an unnecessarily harsh cultural judgment in a computer game.

If this is done for the sake of some obscure hyper-authenticity, then there are other details that should have been addressed or were missed. It looks like you must wipe out every last resource and unit of the enemy -- not too much fun when half the time invested in the game is mopping up. Ways that Cossacks surpasses the standard: - Peasants, buildings and artillery can be captured. Buildings can be captured and either used or destroyed.

Destruction of buildings doesn't happen instantly. Once you press the Delete button, the building catches fire and then slowly burns away its hit points, adding -- for those destruction fans out there -- atmosphere as your forces cut a swath through a nation.

However, this also gives the original owner time to restore the building if he or she manages to recapture it. The owner can apply peasant power to rebuild a building.

Create an officer and a drummer in your barracks and group your infantry into formations, then control them by clicking the officer, who serves as the conduit for all movement orders for the soldiers who are part of that formation. This introduces realistic period maneuvering that resembles true formation tactics and drill. There are only three formations, however -- rank, column and square columns not for fast marching, but as an attack formation.

The fine points of drill are not left to the player "Wheel left! Inexplicably, formations can be made using groups of certain numbers that seem to have no discernible pattern or relevance -- 15, 36, 96, Formations can only be made in the designated denominations. So for instance, if you have 14 Janissaries, you can't form them up until you make one more.

If you have between 17 and 35 of them, you'll be able to make one formation of 15 and the others will go unorganized. The leftovers can be thought of as replacements, perhaps. Hint: work these odd units into the formation after it has taken losses by moving them close to it, disbanding the formation and then re-forming it. The concept of supply is introduced though not that of supply lines in that you must have iron and coal representing the manufacturing of shot and powder stockpiled in order for muskets and cannon to shoot.

If your stock of these materials is exhausted, your forces may become helpless in the face of the enemy. Your diplomatic center can provide bought-and-paid-for units that will work for you as long as your gold supply holds out.

Though this may not be realistic for such items as coal or gold, this is more game practical in that these resources are, to an extent, an abstraction representing many other resources of fuel and metals.

More appreciated is the fact that the wood is not exhausted. Trees grow back. Also, building the mill automatically provides many self-replenishing amber waves of grain for food you still must assign peasants to work them , visually adding to the game and saving the player the need to rebuild farms. Choose Multiplayer from the main menu. If your machine is connected to the Internet, choose "Internet games" from the menu and you're transported to an anonymous "master server" hosting games being played by Cossacks fans from around the world.

At the time of this writing exactly Eastern US on 17 May there were 27 players online. Later on the number went up to Be aware that these kinds of servers are wide open.

There is no usage policy or stated rules, so be prepared for some standard, uncivil Internet behavior and crude language. The game played well when tested on our little two-node wireless Symphony LAN. However, again, the multiplayer historical scenario played had no information about goals in the game and ended without a clear message about which side had prevailed. The graphics are clear and detailed. It's not difficult to differentiate between and among the units. The landscape is well defined.

It looks like great effort went into creating individualized architectural styles for each of the cultures represented. Players will appreciate the pleasant appearance. In addition, it introduces, inter alia:. Report problems with download to [email protected].

In addition, it introduces, inter alia: Seven new ships including for example. New Nations: Bavarians and Danes. The ability to choose one of the four degrees of difficulty. New missions for single player mode. New historical missions in which you will be able to take an active part and alter their course according to their own views.

Enhanced ability to create teams both live and computer-based players and play fighting between them. Improved, more intuitive interface. Implemented Editor allows you to create your own maps. The ability to record and later play the course of the game.