For units you can upgrade attack and defense in the building that produces them, while resource buildings offer upgrades for production capabilities. Staying ahead of the curve both at home and on the battlefield requires you to upgrade capabilities for both. Each resource is paramount to the building, upgrading, and maintenance of your military and towns. Coal, stone, iron, and gold come from mines built upon resource wells across the map while wood comes from harvesting nearby forests, and food comes from building mills that produce fields of wheat to be farmed. Cossacks 3 tasks you with raising a town of peasants who will then build your buildings and farm your resources. Speaking of resources, supporting your army with your base is paramount to any kind of victory, no matter how savagely gained.
Even on normal difficulty, the wars of attrition in Cossacks 3 are relentless and brutal.īuilding up townships is actually pretty engaging the whole way through. Even after heavily upgrading our forces, the constant pressure of fighting off enemies and having to replace losses in rapid intervals made the fight a stalemate at best, up until either our AI would put soldiers out of position allowing the enemy AI to instantly capitalize or our resources would run out, ending our production and allowing the endless waves to eventually roll through our forces. The enemy would constantly barrage us with wave after wave of cavalry, infantry, and cannons with practically only seconds of breath in between.
When we tried to play the game slow and build up our forces, we found the longer you go, the harder the fight becomes. If that wasn’t bad enough, the production and aggression rates of enemy AI seem heavily out of balance. The random factor here makes things incredibly frustrating, devolving complex strategy into what mostly amounts to both sides hitting eachother with everything they’ve got until one side wins. Sometimes it ended in with a long fight that saw us on the losing side, sometimes it ended with our forces crushed before they could even clear the first wave of enemy armies, sometimes they’d barely break through and we’d win, and a few times they managed to break the enemy ranks and annihilate them with much of our force intact. On one particular campaign mission, we set up a save and ran a single assault across a bridge several times. Not only is it frustrating to see the soldiers you painstakingly organized break ranks, but once they’re engaged, it’s equal parts a numbers game and random chance on whether or not your men will survive a big conflict. When your armies engage, expect your formations to fall apart almost instantly once they get to the enemy, with almost every close encounter devolving into a free-for-all of hectic murder. The biggest problem with Cossacks 3 lies in AI on both the player and enemy end. Your upgraded 18th Century cavalry is no match for this game's bad AI Unfortunately, when you put it all into practice, it’s as chaotic and uncontrolled as the most brutal No Man’s Land. Again, the set-up is fantastic, allowing the mind to wander on opportunities of strategy that this foundation allows. You can set up your armies and hot key different regiment types for quick mass selection to order attacks, retreats, and counter offensives. Melee are best arranged in columns allowing for rank-breaking assaults, and finally square formation allows for protection of officers and defense against cavalry units that might otherwise break your formation. Gunmen are best arranged in rank, firing at enemies in a line where every shooter has a shot on the targets.
You’ll produce regiments of units ranging from the smallest crew of forty up to multiples of that same number, creating massive regiments that can be arranged in formation. Proper mixture of is the basic law of engagement in Cossacks 3 and the set-up is pretty great for what it is in theory and establishment. Invest too much in range and waves of melee fighters will close the distance, which forces ranged units to attempt to retreat before they can fire again. Invest too much in melee and ranged units will pick off your armies leaving the melee to finish you off. The three different types of cavalry range in strong melee, hit n’ run speed melee, and ranged musketeers on horseback. Still, there’s a distinct difference, strength, and weakness in the abilities of any given nation’s numerous varieties of soldiers. There are more than 70 units in Cossacks 3, but it translates down to similar units varied across different nations. It won't last long.Īs mentioned, the game takes place in 17th Century European provinces, just around when gunpowder is starting to become relevant in conflicts, but swords, spears, and cavalry are still the most common arms of the masses.
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