Cossacks: European Wars Expansions & DLCs

Strategy 25 September 2002

The second official expansion for Cossacks: European Wars, a real-time strategy by GSC Game World, set between the 16th and 18th century. Cossacks: Back To War is a standalone add-on that, apart from new content, offers the campaigns from the vanilla Cossacks: European Wars and the first expansion, Cossacks: Art of War. There is no shortage of novelties — the second ad-on introduces another 100 missions for single player mode, two playable nations (the Swiss and Hungarians) with unique buildings and units as well as additional troops for Turkey and Algiers — camel-riding Bedouins. Traditionally, the player’s task is to build cities, develop technologies, trade, raise armies, wage wars, conduct diplomacy, and so on. In total, we can lead 20 different European nations to glory. The developers significantly enhanced the computer AI and introduced over 30 new units.

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Strategy 21 February 2002

The first official expansion for Cossacks: European Wars, a real-time strategy by GSC Game World that recreates the reality of the 17th and 18th century. The Art of War expands mainly the single player content but it isn’t devoid of some changes in multiplayer as well. The biggest novelties include two new playable nations: Bavarians and Danes. Apart from them, Cossacks: The Art of War introduces five new campaigns in which we lead such countries as Prussia, Austria, Saxony, Algiers, and Poland to battle. In them, we can take part in historical missions and see their alternate course. The gameplay at sea was enriched with seven ships, including the famous Victoria. Other noteworthy enhancements of The Art of War include the possibility of creating teams that consists of both live players and AI-controlled ones, more intuitive interface, a map editor, and the match recording and replaying feature.

PC