Musketeers can destroy pikemen, especially when upgraded, but will struggle in melee combat which makes them especially vulnerable to cavalry, plus they’re much slower and expensive to produce, while also requiring a constant supply of coal to fire their weapons. Unit variety is not huge, but that means there’s a clear rock-paper-scizzors system at play. Given the 17th-18th century timeframe the tactics are old-school chunky formations of pikemen supported by cannons and battalions of musketeers, while cavalry provides devastating flanking attacks. With a basic economy established you can get focused on building up a reasonable army. With these resources you can fuel your economy, constructing things like a blacksmith to arm troops, barracks to train soldiers, stables to deploy horsemen and an academy to research improved rifles, better agriculture, more accurate artillery and much, much more. These are all infinite, so there’s never any concern of running out of woodland or of a gold mine failing to produce, but of course there is always the desire for more resources compelling you to battle over new mining locations, unless you’re willing to invest in expanding your existing mines so that they can have more workers in them.
As the game opens you’re given a handful of grubby peasants with which to construct a city, starting with a town hall and the basic resources food from mills and fishing boats wood from forests stone from handy deposits and gold, iron and coal from mining locations. I know that doesn’t sound very appealing, but trust me, it actually is.Ĭossacks 3 is a game of two halves peacetime, and all-out warfare. It’s a pleasant leap back to a simpler time of RTS games where factions didn’t vary very much in their design and the level of variety wasn’t that high. You see, despite its name it’s not really a sequel to the much-loved Cossacks series, rather it’s pretty much a complete remake of the original game, retaining most of its balance and mechanics while upgrading the graphics and smoothing out the gameplay a touch.
Review code provided free of charge by the publisher.Ĭossacks 3 is guilty of false advertising, really.
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