Hey everyone. Hope the weekend has been relaxing for you. This week i continued to chip away at my Western Roman Empire Total War Attila campaign. Hope you all have a great week!

  • 0__0 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    Cossacks 2! I genuinely don’t understand how this gem of a game doesn’t have a not so large but extremely hardcore community that fixes all the bugs and QoL with mods. Now I haven’t really played any other RTS games within the Napoleonic setting, but from what I’ve seen this one easily takes the cake in terms of historical accuracy.

    Even though it has quite a few aforementioned bugs and the economy management system mostly focuses on capturing nearby villages for raw resources, I implore all history nerds to play this shit and bring it to life. Morale, fatigue from extended marching, effective range of fire, troop variety, different formations give different bonuses etc. But also the little things like the trees and hills giving cover and range bonuses, being able to capture enemy cannon, troops marching faster on roads and even troops being demoralized if a formation is broken near them.

    Although this depth is absolutely amazing for a game that’s literally 20 years old, it’s probably the reason why the game isn’t as popular as it rightfully should be.

    E: Also, be aware that if you do play it, it might not work on windows 11 or 10. Strangely enough it runs well on tux-shining over wine for me.

      • 0__0 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        Yeah except people were pretty disappointed considering the fact that it is simply a remake of the first game. Really don’t understand why for 3 they didn’t build on the excellent battle foundations of 2, added a better base building and economy system with new graphics and called it a day. Although they did say that they’re gonna work on 4 now since they’ve released stalker 2. Hopefully they’ll add all that with a remake of 2, and could maybe even add the american independence war, seven years war, russian and austrian conflicts with the ottomans etc. Maybe even naval warfare, considering that the first game had it.