In the following menu select the Single Missions option and afterwards choose any mission. Select the Single Player option in the Main Menu. You can run any of ten missions in any order you like. Single missions have no common storyline. Should you select or enter another name, you will be unable to continue your game and will have to start from the very beginning or continue somebody else's game. Note: If you completed several missions of a campaign in a previous game and return to the same campaign, you should select the name you used before in the name entry section in order to continue the missions of that campaign. Press the "F1" key to find out about your current objectives and conditions of failure. How can I find out about my current objectives, tasks accomplished and conditions of failure? While playing through the missions you will receive information on other tasks. You will participate in events that will determine the fate and history of the world.īefore starting a mission you can learn the true historical background preceding the events described in the mission.Īt the beginning of your mission, you will receive a list of current objectives, which it is your first and foremost task to complete.
The missions in Cossacks are full of thrilling and hazardous adventures. Select the Tutorial Campaign in the Campaigns menu. In order to learn the basic rules of Cossacks it is recommended to complete the Tutorial. In the next menu select the Campaigns option and afterwards choose the campaign and mission and click on "Start". Enter your name or select an existing name. It must be completed in order to get through to the following mission. When you select one of the campaigns for the first time, you will be able to run only the first mission. You will have access to 5 campaigns: English, Ukrainian, French, Russian and Tutorial. In campaigns, players are required to complete a number of missions united by the same storyline.
It adds several units to various countries, new cannon types and alters some parameters such as building time, upgrade and building costs.Īddcomment(replytokey, level, postcommenttext, newreplyid)
There are also new maps, a tutorial campaign and a map-editor. Cossacks: Back to War adds two new nations (Switzerland and Hungary) to the choices from Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: Art of War because of their influence on European history.
It was a financial success.īack to War, released on 18 October 2002, is the second expansion pack, and it can be played as a standalone. 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 units. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe.
Cossacks is a real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World.