Cossacks: European Wars
Developer GSC Game World
Cossacks: European Wars (Ukrainian: Козаки: Європейські війни) is a real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on 28 November 2000. 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 no limit on unit numbers. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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54 of 54 · most liked firstIntro from "WarCraft 2000: Nuclear Epidemic", a 1998 real time strategy game developed by Ukrainian company GSC Game World who eventually became known for their S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Cossacks game series. #UkrainianVideogames 🇺🇦
unlabelledView post →Game designer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Volodymyr Yezhov, was killed in action near Bakhmut in 2022 after volunteering to fight. He worked on ‘Cossacks 2’ and ‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky’. His talent lives on in a game dedicated to Ukraine’s defenders. Heroes never die. 🇺🇦 #Ukraine #STALKER2
unlabelledView post →I present to you this morning's BREAKFAST MAGNIFICENCE! Peter Capaldi (DR WHO!) VS Matt Berry (TOAST!) reading out a slanging match between the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and some Zaporozhian Cossacks after a battle in In 1675. I need to up my insult game!😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW8O...
unlabelledView post →Working on some more models for 'Retreat From Moscow' rules that I'm looking forward to running at the club. An interesting co-op skirmish game. Russian Cossacks and Fusiliers. 28mm Front Rank.
unlabelledView post →December 1812, Cossacks pick off French stragglers as the remains of the Grand Armeé retreat through the snow. 4 player game using a bespoke D12 system devised by one of my friends.
unlabelledView post →Some Trench Cossacks promo models from the game Trench Crusade!
unlabelledView post →Releasing new content for the Witcher 3 out of context truly is a statement I respect. I had a lot of issues with story tropes in the game, as I have with the book and also Cyberpunk. Still I found parts of W3 revolutionary back then, and played 400 hours being my favorite part the Cossacks DLC.
unlabelledView post →protect personnel and prevent the enemy from imposing their game through drones. 🇺🇦Long live the Cossacks! 🇺🇦Muchnoy Jugend | #UkraineNews
unlabelledView post →points. The situation is dynamic: both sides are playing a game of nerves, waiting to see who will first succumb to the pressure. 🇺🇦 Our Cossacks are holding their ground and working from position to position, without making a fuss, but with cold calculation. 🇺🇦 Muchnoy Jugend | #UkraineNews
unlabelledView post →And we really ask for help in the fundraising for 6 Schmidt & Bender scopes, so Ukrainian nationalism, which so outrages some game commentators, remains not only in the form of matches, but above all in our people, our Cossacks, who carry the Ukrainian spirit and culture of our people. 3/5
unlabelledView post →Big target, so not a mini raffle. What's to win? - One jar of Maslotom peanuts spread, taste black chocolate & salt 🤤 - One Kraken 🐙 coin - One set of UA stickers - One box of Cossacks matches, seen in the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 But also... 🧵2/6
unlabelledView post →The developers of Stalker, GSC Game World, will tell you their first game was the #RTS Cossacks They don't want you to know they first made WARCRAFT 2000: NUCLEAR EPIDEMIC youtu.be/bEvE-oo2MxY
unlabelledView post →I am trying to improve graphics. Check out my discord to get early access to the game! discord.gg/KwshUMb8n7 #gamedev #cossacks #poles #graphic #UnrealEngine
unlabelledView post →The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 8 Cossacks: The Art of War #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky #IndieDev
unlabelledView post →A game of Napoleon's Battles (Avalon Hill) with French, Baden, Austrians, Cossacks and British?! against Prussians. All we've got is a fast play sheet and the French statistics to go from - the game box is lost somewhere in the loft maybe.
unlabelledView post →How much do you know about the conflict between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Zaporozhian Cossacks? Look no further — this is your game, featuring one of the largest battles in 17th-century Europe. Original theme+original system = what more could you ask for? Author: Krzysztof Dytczak
unlabelledView post →A smattering of photos from Monday's game of 'War in our Homeland' - 17th century Cossacks (and tartars!) versus poles! Not a period I know anything about but an exciting game all the same! #nerdlings #wargaming
unlabelledView post →We've been working hard (okay, with a few breaks here and there) to bring you the first public build of the game! Most of the new features have already been showcased in our shorts, but today, we’re excited to give you a sneak peek at our new inventory screen concept. #gamedev #cossacks #art
unlabelledView post →Us again, with more screenshoots, now our new main menu. Hope you like it! If you're not on our Discord yet, here’s the link: discord.com/invite/zxu3bHp… Check it out to access a VERY limited game build! Just ask the devs! #gamedev #multiplayer #indie #cossacks
unlabelledView post →Team Deathmatch Mode in My Historical Indie Game #gamedev #cossacks #poles #unrealengine
unlabelledView post →Modern day Cossacks game where you sack the remaining safe spaces of billionaires.
unlabelledView post →Currently playing "Napoleon at the Berezina". A bit fiddely and with two pages of errata, but the challenge is quite neat. How often do you get to conduct horrible river crossings in a tactical Napoleonics game, while being harassed by swarms of Cossacks? #wargaming #napoleonics
unlabelledView post →thing. Fighting, crafty, adaptable and commited Ukrainian Cossacks is a completely other ball game. In a way, the soul of the Cossacks should be our main war aim. 3. The redemption arc The history of the Cossacks has dark pages indeed. Few darker than those written in the 20th century. But
unlabelledView post →If you're thinking of voting for the Nebulas/Hugos & want to play my Jewish historical fantasy interactive fiction game "The Ghost and the Golem" (demons, mystical journeys, kugel, Cossacks, Talmudic debates, arranged marriages, bandits, sexy anarchist klezmers...) lemme know & I'll get you a key!
unlabelledView post →Monday’s Eagles game starting right at break fast on Yom Kippur is the greatest win my family’s had since escaping the Cossacks
unlabelledView post →Never played any Cossacks game actually! Kinda missed them in my being bad at RTSes phase. Love the concept of zones of danger for early modern infantry tho.
unlabelledView post →🖥️ Cossacks: European Wars (2000) This is a must play for any classic RTS fan. Fondly remembered game in Europe, probably less so in the US. At the time, it was groundbreaking due to the sheer number of possible units on the map - you started small, but longer games would end up with huge armies.
unlabelledView post →Cossacks 3 is the only game I've seen successfully manage the 2D-but-in-3D look. Simply amazing! Stronghold Crusaders 2 was pretty close tho.
unlabelledView post →#retrogaming game of the day is Ukrainian Cossacks: European Wars (2001) by GSC Game World www.uvlist.net/game-45120 in 2001, Ukrainian Studio GSC was talking about wars in Europe, especially with Cossacks. RTS games were a hype and it was a good one.
unlabelledView post →GOG remembers Empire Earth, and has run it through their Preservation Program www.gog.com/en/game/empi... (They also sell all the sequels. And all the Cossacks games too)
unlabelledView post →This is our world. They'll employ a million unidentified Cossacks to say "no" rather than just do the right thing, all because some fucking MBA game-theoried that it will shave 1.5% off the bottom line. 👇
unlabelledView post →my friend once came up with a game concept that was "Tetris, but your figures starve to death without proper nourishment (like in Cossacks)"
unlabelledView post →Let me play a game about the Netherlands where you are one of the Cossacks who came to the Netherlands to fight Napoleon. That's still cool even though there are maybe 1.5 games about the historical Netherlands.
unlabelledView post →Other late-in-the-game punts, leading to disappointment: 01. You see, my parents were actually Cossacks, it's all retribution for some historical blather (...nonsense!) 02. A long lost twin, never revealed until the story got stuck. 03. I was adopted (...bloodline destiny) 03. A dream (...No!).
unlabelledView post →The Cossacks of course combined horsemanship with firearms to beat the steppe nomads at their own game.
unlabelledView post →Cossacks 1 is such a legendary game! Was confused what Alien Nations is, never realized it's the international Die Völker version!
unlabelledView post →pretty much the only game my dad played through most of my childhood was Cossacks: European Wars and its expansions dude would go online and have intense 4-hour skirmishes with slavs while I can admit AoE prolly has better designed RTS gameplay, I can't blame him too much, this game is nerd heaven
unlabelledView post →That’s true. I do feel like EU5 seems well set up for DLCs to truly be more “optional” focusing on regional flavor and less on major game mechanics. Like there probably won’t be an Art of War or Cossacks DLC that essentially changes the underlying game dramatically.
unlabelledView post →GSC Game World maker/publisher of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., COSSACKS & more...celebrating 30th anniversary 🥳 Wish you a very bright future 😍😎❤️ You have proven that no matter what the circumstances, never give up...👍👊 #GSCGameWorld #30thAnniversary #HappyWishes #GamingInfoAndNews #Gaming #Lazyajju
unlabelledView post →Hey GSC Game World, do you want to make a new Cossacks: Back to War game? 😏
unlabelledView post →There She Goes (Pathé, 1913)*** DISC 2 : AFTER HOLLYWOOD The Danger Game (Goldwyn, 1918)* Cossacks in Exile (Edgar Ulmer, 1939) Ghost Town: The Story of Fort Lee (1935)*** *Music Composed and Performed by Donald Sosin **Music by Rodney Sauer and Performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
unlabelledView post →I can’t speak to 2 or 3. I played only the original. But there’s some other games (Divided Nation, I think) running the same basic game. But the original Cossacks with its two expansion packs is my favorite.
unlabelledView post →I enjoyed the last Cossacks game but it was silly fun!
unlabelledView post →From just clicking a mission from Nobility or Cossacks it over and over to "conquer" a province from my own pronoiar, but the game also understood that it's already my subject, so I already got it. But not quite "mine" enough, to get a mission on some other province.
unlabelledView post →I YEARN for a good strategy simulation game, preferably medieval that I can get into. Any good ones from the past 4/5 years you'd recommend? I still play Cossacks so so much, maybe because it is what I grew up on, but also the pace of it is just nice (Imagine AOE but faster)
unlabelledView post →The devs just got done with the latest STALKER game. There's DLC to come but maybe they'd be up for a Cossacks where you ransack Putin's mansions.
unlabelledView post →honestly a little surprised the company still exists given they hadn't released a game in like 15 years except for a Cossacks remaster
unlabelledView post →Wait, Cossacks is a Ukrainian game? I absolutely loved it!
unlabelledView post →It does suck that Stalker 2 was made an exclusive, though it's pretty clear that Cossacks 3 isn't gonna save GSC Game World from certain death. They also had to get a monetary grant from Epic Games in order for STALKER 2 to even exist at all.
unlabelledView post →Btw, anyone remembers Oliver Stone's Alexander? This one? Well, GSC made a tie-in game for it that was a spin-off of Cossacks/American Conquest! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh6L...
unlabelledView post →Got also Cossacks 1+2 bundle(played briefly demo of 1 as a kid) and Port Royale 2(heard of the game, but idk what it is about)
unlabelledView post →I would like to see Cossacks, my childhood favorite video game.
unlabelledView post →especially Ashkenazi practice! I've always imagined that this is what happens when Cossacks are outside so it's too dangerous to go out, so you stay inside and make an intellectual game out of cramming more angels onto the head of that pin
unlabelledView post →We have enhanced our Android icons. Android cuts 384x384 square out of 512x512 and rounds it. That's why the icon has to have all of the key content in the very center ☝️ #locadeserta #gamedev #indiedev #ukraine #cossacks #locadeserta
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