Cossacks: European Wars

released in 2001
  • Wine GOG version last published 9 months, 2 weeks ago
    Run game on single CPU; show original intro videos
    If one use automatic GOG installer the game won't run. First of all, on modern wine versions it requires single_cpu: true. Also the argument list set but automatic installer is

    .\videos\cdv.avi .\videos\kz.avi .\videos\Logo.avi dmln.exe

    which is probably valid for windows cmd, but fails to run from lutris because lutris eats unescaped backslashes (\). The solution is to escape them, e. g. by prepending with another backslash (as in this installer) or surrounding each argument with single quotes.
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  • auto GOG(Auto) version
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Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game for Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on April 24, 2001. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and units.
Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, building construction and simple resource gathering. 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. This ability set it apart from other games of the time such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth.
Cossacks is a game which allows the user to gain strategy skills and even pick up some relative history of that period by the inclusion of a comprehensive encyclopedia. This top selling title has won two awards and was positively favoured by a majority of reviewers.