Should I Buy Cossacks 3?

[Venator Vicain]

I've been pretty on the fence about buying Cossacks 3. I've never played a Cossacks game before, but I'm pretty familiar with Age of Empires 2 and Age of Empires 3.

This game seems to follow the classic late 90s/early 00s RTS formula with a twist: massive battles and massive amounts of units. I'm also a huge fan of the Total War series, so this instantly interested me.

I never really caught on with Age of Empires simply because the scale felt so small. Barracks only dishing out one/a few units at a time with a pop limit of (usually) 200? What kind of puny army is this? This is barely a platoon.

This seems like the type of game that I'm looking for, but I'm just not sure. Convince me? :)

[Mr_Cossack]

If you are into large armies with base building as well as enconomy and many things to research to upgrade your massive armies. Then Cossacks 3 is for you.

It plays a bit like age of empire in that you build a base/city, you gather resources to build up a large army and then smash that army against other large armies. If you like single player the game currently has 5 campaigns 1 for Austria,England,Ukraine,Russia and i believe Spain? not sure on the 5th.

It has random map mode where you can have up to 7 nations (soon to be 8) fight against or with each other as allies. against a.i.

Or you can head into MP against real players and get your ass kicked until you master the game and take sweet revenge. Honestly its nothing like Total war series, its not realistic or cinematic. It's a pure classical 90's/early 2000's style RTS game that allows for both huge land and naval battles. Don't go into it thinking that Pike infantry will murder cav units for example. Cossacks isn't like that, if your Cav are upgraded and the enemy Pikemen not, you will slaughter them. Balance isn't the best right now but many patches and improvements to come. Including 8 free nations in future DLC :)

My advice is check out some videos on youtube see what you think.

[Venator Vicain]

That sounds pretty awesome. :D

Is there modding support? Or rather, can we mod the game as is? I'm not necessarily saying new models and completely new units and buildings, but something along the lines of balancing changes.

Suppose I want to change the attack speed of a unit, or its accuracy, or its HP?

Suppose if I want to make a clientside sound or music mod?

Thanks in advance. :)

[Mr_Cossack]

Originally posted by Slypear:

That sounds pretty awesome. :D

Is there modding support? Or rather, can we mod the game as is? I'm not necessarily saying new models and completely new units and buildings, but something along the lines of balancing changes.

Suppose I want to change the attack speed of a unit, or its accuracy, or its HP?

Suppose if I want to make a clientside sound or music mod?

Thanks in advance. :)

There is full modding support and soon the in-game editor will be added as well as steam workshop. If you have the skills you can mod the game anyway you like or download future mods to come.

Changing stats of units should be simple, i am not a modder my self but i know that on the official forums some people have already modded some stats for units and walls etc. I am certain once the workshop is implemented there will be a ton of mods that'll start to appear. Many people have ideas in their head on what they think Cossacks 3 should be, so we can expect some game changing mods in future. Personally i am not a modder, but i do make maps and i can't wait for ingame editor to be finished so that i can start creating my own missions again.

[Venator Vicain]

Sounds like a pretty good investment to me, then! Thanks for your input. :D

[Mr_Cossack]

Well some would disagree. I am just giving you my personal honest opinion. I think its worth every penny if you are into classic style RTS games with a huge pop limit of up to 16k units on the field. more if you mod it. I have always been a Cossacks fan though since Cossacks European wars came out like 13 years ago.

But check out youtube find some battles online and see if it appeals to you.

[kinginora]

wait for a week devs will fix bugs

[The Jesus]

>>Age of Empires 3.
Cossacks 3 is very similar to this gameplay and setting/age. But without capital mode, card deck, trains and outposts control, treasures on map.
But with huge pop limit and with something like tactics/formations/highground contol, artillery bombardment of enemy towers and cities, cavalry raids on towns etc.

In AoE 3 you have max 200 pop limit and things like cannons takes 6 limit per 1 cannon, horses takes 4 limit. So its like ~150 units including peasants per 1 player.

In Cossacks in every game you will have more than 200-300 peasants on resources and army like 1000-3000 units.
You just build 2-3 barracks and 3-4 stables and order infinite construction of units you need at the moment.
You expand your base, build more mines around the map, try to conrol as many as you can, try to capture enemy mines and peasants etc.
You make tonn of upgrades for your economy and military and so on.
So if you like that gameplay and if you are Ok with the bugs and crashes which may happen - you 100% should buy this game. Its very fun to coordinate your actions with friends in multiplayer.

[Armored Baron]

Originally posted by Fookin Legend:

>>Age of Empires 3.
Cossacks 3 is very similar to this gameplay and setting/age. But without capital mode, card deck, trains and outposts control, treasures on map.
But with huge pop limit and with something like tactics/formations/highground contol, artillery bombardment of enemy towers and cities, cavalry raids on towns etc.

In AoE 3 you have max 200 pop limit and things like cannons takes 6 limit per 1 cannon, horses takes 4 limit. So its like ~150 units including peasants per 1 player.

In Cossacks in every game you will have more than 200-300 peasants on resources and army like 1000-3000 units.
You just build 2-3 barracks and 3-4 stables and order infinite construction of units you need at the moment.
You expand your base, build more mines around the map, try to conrol as many as you can, try to capture enemy mines and peasants etc.
You make tonn of upgrades for your economy and military and so on.
So if you like that gameplay and if you are Ok with the bugs and crashes which may happen - you 100% should buy this game. Its very fun to coordinate your actions with friends in multiplayer.

Son, no other game can do this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/A_Soldier/screenshot/263849025221932735

Hell yeah it's worth a buy. Just mod the ♥♥♥♥ out of the game after you're bored.

I wasn't even bored and started modding the ♥♥♥♥ out of the game after the first game, and now look at this.

[Venator Vicain]

Bloody hell that's nice. Well, I'm sold.

In fact, I'm working on a sound mod as I speak, because I noticed nearly everything except the muskets sound pretty abysmal lol. :D

[Mr_Cossack]

Check this one out.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/333420/discussions/0/350542683191890981/

[Venator Vicain]

Always nice to know there are options. :)

[MUNGA]

Get cossack 1 and decide for yourself, gameplay is identical only graphics would differ.

[mickdav]

Great value if the game works, mine has never worked for more than 2 minutes before a PC lockup

[kinginora]

Aoe3 is over ... mass cheater there..