>>2080701 (OP)
Cossacks 2 > all the others

>>2080749
if only it had naval maps

why is this the only rts game that knew how to make good looking buildings and ships

>>2080749
Last time i tried to play it, it didn't work and i was too lazy to try and make it work

>>2080800
All you need is 1 DLL to make it work on Win11 with Windowed support.

>>2080701 (OP)
Holy shit. American Conquest mentioned. Have a bump.

These games are fucking dogshit against the AI.
>Oh you're about to capture a building?
>The AI can delete and explode it instantly killing 40 soldiers because I'm a hohol retard developer

>>2080701 (OP)
I played this game for 10 years, mostly fucking around in the editor or with cheats. I tried to play the campaign recently and it feels almost impossible, I'm not certain if it's bugged or something

>>2081430
>this game
I mean Back to war, the steam version

>>2081134
Skill issue

>>2081134
American Conquest is utter hell because the AI will have garrisoned every building in its base. Better just bombard it slowly from afar because assaulting every building would cause hilarious casualties.

>>2081484
Fighting gym-to-gym, dungeon-to-dungeon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcrIki-qBsI&ab_channel=TheGachimuchiArchives

>>2080749
I honest to God prefer napoleon and the ww1 one

>>2081525
There's a WW1 Cossacks game?

>>2081528
Yeah. Literal classic cossacks but with tanks, mgs and poison gas.

>>2081544
Oh, it wasn't made by GSC, this is why i couldn't find it

>>2081134
>The AI can delete and explode it instantly killing 40 soldiers because I'm a hohol retard developer
lol i thought that shit was random, just something that happened occasionally

>>2081568
AC:Divided Nation's AI is even worse

>>2081484
I always bring a ton of loose pikemen to throw at assaults. The armour helps.

>>2081561
It's also fucking shit and doesn't work 99.99% of the time.

>>2081134
Unironically skill issue.

>>2081580
Divided Nation has NO AI, because it was shipped unfinished. And fucking StarForce DRM. Hope you enjoy fixing kernel of your post-XP OS

>>2081484
>He has no idea how to storm buildings
>In 2005+20
If you know about this game in current year, you literally have no excuse to not understand concepts like storm rating, how capacity affects defense and how to fire and maneuver.
Literally the only time when you are fucked against buildings is when you are playing as Sioux. But if you let, as a Sioux, for the game to reach the point where there is more than a single fortress in the enemy base, you have only yourself to blame.

>>2081134
>He doesn't know how to counter it
>He doesn't raid AI for it to fuck itself
>He doesn't know AI needs to get resources fair and square on random maps
Skill issue
Next thing, you gonna say merc units are useless

>>2081430
Which campaign exactly?

Are Inca slingers just completely fucking useless?

>>2089256
Both Aztec and Inca have shit-tier unit roster. They exist for solo Spanish campaign, not to be playable.

>>2089383
Hey, the Aztec spearchucker guys are quite decent. Too bad they have literally one other unit, but at least they're not completely screwed against armour.

>>2080701 (OP)
i own the battle for europe game (and i recently bought back to war while it was on sale) and ive always wanted to get into these games but im a total war head of origin and they just seem too clunky and too inspired by age of empires

>>2080701 (OP)
For ACFB I play the Hawks European Warfare mod, which has recently seen a decent resurgence/revival. The group that made the mod originally disappeared around 2014, but has since been brought back. We tend to use Gameranger for our matches and the maps made by HWK Foxhound in particular are quite fun to play.
Here's an example video on how matches tend to play out (this battle was using an unofficial version of the mod, the 1.19 and upcoming 1.20 updates can be found on ModDb)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6GtlucozeA&t=750s

We also play the HDN mod for ACDN, which is also enjoyable.

>>2090531
They are AoE, but good, so go fucking figure. Even C3 is better than AoE garbage, but because it wasn't released to Americans in the early 00s, it has maybe the fraction of popularity, while Microsoft, one of the largest IT corporations on this planet (and the juggernaut back then) made AoE their flagship product. In fact, I'm confused why they didn't try to sell AoE pre-installed on Win XP

>>2090623
>Hawks European Warfare mod

One of the best Napoleonic war adaptations in all of gaming.

>>2091650
Rent free.

>>2091650
My friend was a Starcraft fan, I was absolutely certain that Cossack would be remembered and Starcraft fan would join us...

Does Cossacks 3 not work on Win11 now, what the fuck. How is the newest game the one that doesn't work.

>>2099870
>Game released before Win11 was made doesn't work on Win11
Many such cases