[jqm]

I wish someone would clone Cossacks.

I've been playing it since 2002 and keep an XP box specifically to play it on. After all these years I still haven't gotten bored of the game and probably play it 2-3 hours a week or more on average.

I don't know if this means it's a really good game or I'm just a boring person. But it beats AoE all over in my opinion. I've tried a lot of other games, played them for a bit and forgotten about them. But not Cossacks. I just wish they had kept the series going.

[ptomato]

It's on GoG now, fyi: http://www.gog.com/game/cossacks_anthology

Currently on sale for $1.79, and that version will work on modern versions of Windows.

[j_s]

Also on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/11264/

[cjslep]

> But it beats AoE all over in my opinion.

You, me, and 3 of my cousins would all agree. We had a blast playing over LAN and watching our millions of pikemen get mowed down by grapeshot, large fleets of battleships tear through each other, and do silly things like build farms near our seiging armies so the wheat fields would hide mortars.

The sheer scale of that game at the time is what made it stick.

[zaporozhets]

+9001 for this. Cossacks was and always will be the best RTS I have ever played. I want a mac port, an HD re-release and sequel right now.

[mehwoot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossacks_II:_Napoleonic_Wars

[MasterScrat]

They should release an HTML5 port of Cossacks. With WebGL, websockets and modern JS performances there's no reason it wouldn't work just as well as the original game. Plus it'd be cross-platform and no install needed.

[hluska]

Oh wow, Cossacks - I haven't thought of that game in ages! I loved it and think I'm going to go find my copy and try to get it running! Thanks!