The game features a single-player campaign that's a bit loose with the facts for dramatic purposes, a battle for Europe campaign with both turn-based and real-time elements, and a variety of skirmish and historical engagements. In Cossacks II, you take control of one of six great powers of the era and attempt to settle your differences on the open field of battle, like civilized gentlemen. Newcomers, on the other hand, will discover a somewhat quirky but enjoyable real-time strategy game that focuses on formations and tactics rather than base-building and tank rushes.Ĭossacks II lets you wage the Napoleonic Wars in all their stately carnage. The gameplay, however, remains unmistakably Cossacks, which is good news for fans of the franchise. In a way, Cossacks II marks the first major upgrade for the franchise, as it sports a much updated graphical look, as well as some significant new features. Case in point is Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, the follow-up to 2000's Cossacks and the latest game in the real-time strategy series. Instead, it's about the bonds you form with your unit and the reputation you build amongst your peers.With this year marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, it seems a bit fitting that the Napoleonic Wars seem to be getting a little more attention than normal. It's a decision few shooters are complex enough to pose because there's no way to really quantify bravery in multiplayer. Far better to charge forward into an overwhelming enemy force and die in glory than to be a coward. If we break ranks and scatter to save our lives, we bring shame upon our regiment. But, for me, it's those moments when we are flanked that are the absolute best. You have little agency as a single soldier, instead, relying on your commander's ability to position your unit properly to not get flanked by enemy maneuvers. What I love about playing in a highly coordinated regiment is that Napoleonic Wars becomes more about discipline than accuracy or skill. Raised your rifle or spoken out of turn without the captain's orders? That's a lashin'.
See, while you're free to just hop online and join in chaotic public matches, you're much better served joining one of the many regiments that engage in historically-proper battles with loads of rules for what you can and can't do at any given time. Yet, Napoleonic Wars is one of my favourite multiplayer shooter mods ever.
There's some eras of warfare that seem impossible to recreate in a first-person shooter, and the idea of standing in rows and exchanging volleys with another group of gents also standing in rows seems like one of them. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
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