Thanks for watching! I clearly had a lot to say about Cossacks and I hope the video didn't drag on for too long.
Next video will be shorter ;)

I understood buildings exploding when you take them as the AI deletes them just before you capture.

Cossacks 2 is one of the most realistic RTS games.  Large scale battles can just evolve from two units running into one another and each side rushes to get reinforcements and the next thing you know you have battle lines that look like historical battle maps.  

Would love for a Cossacks 4 that updates 2 to come out!

Since im 6 or 7 i play cossack back to war  with my father, now im 21 and still play it with him when i visit my parents.
Such a great game.

17:10 Oh your poor sweet summer child…in Cossacks 1 you can hold shift, Ctrl or alt + click and it will give queue 5,10, or infinity units respectively

Cossacks 1 has been part of my childhood. One of my best rts games during the early 2000s.

They made American Conquest in the meantime. It's very much "Cossacks in the Americas", and it shows how graphics and features evolved from Cossacks I to Cossacks II.

I also loved this game as a kid. As a Dane I was thrilled when The Art of War came out, and we were finally in it.

It's so great to see that somebody appreciates Cossacks II. I honestly really love the changes and dynamic of having the neutral villages. Battle for Europe is also a solid mode. I just wish the game would have more maps, support multiplayer against bots. The campaign is also really hard. Overall, I wish there was a revamped version that would still keep the same aesthetics, the game looks marvelous.

Good to see the Ukraine game still remember in europe too)

The problem is, Cossacks 2 were a lot less popular, or even disliked, among supposed main audience - people from post-soviet countries. You too seem to have had similar impression when younger. It is irrational, but it's what it is. It goes without saying that when poorly managed company (there even drama about it) without enough financial resources decided to make a "sequel", their choice was remastering a more popular game, especially because it's probably a lot cheaper - Cossacks 2 has a lot of more complex and thus expensive features.

Cossacks 3 is one of my favorite games. I love the time period (Early Modern Period and Classic Antiquity are my favorite), old school mechanics, artstyle, etc. However I only say this because I've never ppayed previous games. I saw Cossacks 1 and saw the exact same I already have, American Conquest was wiersly zoomed in and I was too lazy to fix it and I couldn't run Cossacks 2. I understand why old fans are upset and frankly I don't understand why devs simply didn't say this is remaster, because I see nothing change except people adjusting their expectations properly.

I played all 3 games and this is such a great video ! I loved messing around on cossacks 2 in the historical battles as a kid :)

Fun fact:  The intro to Cossacks is a shot for shot recreation of battle scenes from Sergei Bondarchuk's War And Peace in 1967.

I always wanted to get into Cossack as a kid, but then Total War found me first.

Personally, I played Cossacks 1 way more than the others, but 3 is the one I think is best. 2 was good for the campaign but I found the skirmishes to be far too slow and the available space to actually build your base far too small compared to the size of the buildings (i.e. good luck getting a few thousand soldiers when like so little of the map can actually be used for building on) The mechanics for the fighting were really good, though.

And Cossacks 3 is just a remaster of 1, yes, and I did find it a bit odd that they didn't call it as such, but it's a really good remaster. Not without flaws as you stated, but I really enjoyed the new content and the updated graphics. I haven't played it as much as the original, but mainly because it's a lot harder to find the time when your responsibilities begin and end at "spend 6 hours a day in school and do up to 1 or 2 hours of homework a night".

Alright, you have some nice style and such, hope the algorithm decides to bless you at some point, something I gotta point out, please dont use or mute any song that had vocal singing on it, it was hard hearing you with what I though at first was another video tab of mine perhaps playing another video only to see once I paused your video that it came from you

Cossacks 2 is what Age of Empires 3 should have tried to emulate

Cossacks 2 combat system was fantastic, easily my favourite napoloenic warfare game.

"cossacks 3 should be called cossacks remastered"

That's all you had to say, honestly. I'll get it next sale