========================================================== Cossacks - Back To War Version 1.35 ========================================================== Thank you for purchasing this game! ********************************************************** -> Installation <- Please carry out the following steps in order to install the game: 1. Place the Cossacks - Back to War CD-Rom in your CD-Rom drive and close it. 2. If the Autorun function of your CD-Rom drive is activated, the installation program will start automatically. If this is not the case, you will have to start the program CSETUP.EXE in the root directory of the Cossacks - Back to War CD-Rom manually by double- clicking. 3. Follow the instructions of the installation program. 4. We hope you'll enjoy Cossacks - Back To War ! ********************************************************** -> Important <- 1. Your monitor (and your graphic card) must support a 1024x768 resolution for the game to run. If your monitor (or your graphic card) supports only resolutions lower than 1024x768, Cossacks - Back to War will not run. 2. You must have an installed version of DirectX 6.0 or higher on your computer for the game to run. If you do not already have DirectX installed, you can install it from the game CD. 3. When testing we discovered that old sound cards in ISA slots and sound cards with Yamaha XG chipsets with old drivers lead to computer problems. This problem can only be eliminated by installing the latest drivers for these sound cards. ********************************************************** In most cases you will not need the program "Internet Game Setup". However, if you play Cossacks via a proxy and through a firewall in the internet, problems may arise when you download clan icons. In order to solve these, just start the program "Internet Game Setup", set the proxy to "enable" and then enter the address of the proxy and the port. You can find these for instance in the internet explorer under Tools->Internet Options-> Connection->LAN Settings. ********************************************************** www.cossacks.com Developers: GSC Game World www.gsc-game.com Publishers: CDV Software Entertainment AG www.cdv.de CDV Software Entertainment AG Neureuterstr. 37b 76185 Karlsruhe Germany Fax: +49-(0)721-97224-24 E-Mail: support@cossacks.de (c) 2002 CDV Software Entertainment AG. All rights reserved. CDV, the CDV logo and Cossacks - Back to War are either registered trademarks or trademarks of CDV Software Entertainment AG or GSC Game World in the US and/or UK and/or other countries. ********************************************************** Cossacks: Back To War 1. Technical Information 1.1. Minimum System Requirements Cossacks requires a Pentium 233 MHz processor or higher, 32 MB of RAM, a DirectX compliant video card with at least 1 MB of memory, a DirectX compliant sound card and a mouse. Using this configuration, the game will run at an acceptable speed with a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels and an average amount of units. (However, your monitor and video card should support a 1024 x 768 resolution to launch the game.), minimum 2x CDRom Drive, 500 MB free disk space. Please note that Cossacks: Back To War cannot load saved games from Cossacks: European Wars nor The Art of War - and vice versa. Please always place the Back To War CD ROM in your CD ROM drive whenever you want to play Cossacks: Back To War. 1.2. System Requirements for Large Maps To use the 16 times larger maps you should play the game using a Pentium III 500 MHz PC with 256 MB of RAM, in order to guarantee that the game will run smoothly despite the exceptional size of the map. Furthermore, when playing on 2 x 2 or 4 x 4 maps, make sure your computer has 150 to 200 MB of additional hard drive space available, as these maps require a lot of memory. ********************************************************** Not only for Cossacks-Fans: www.americanconquest.com ********************************************************** 2. Hot Keys The game now has many more hot keys than the original Cossacks, thus enabling quicker access to game functions and processes. Apart from the hot keys you had in the original version of the game, the following hot keys are available in Cossacks - Back to War: Peasant: C - build town hall S - build stable D - build dwelling B - build 17th century barracks R - build artillery depot K - build 18th century barracks T - build storehouse L - build blacksmith N - build mine H - build church F - build shipyard E - build market Y - build mill X - build wooden paling W - build stone wall V - build tower J - build academy Hot keys for 17th century barracks: S - train musketeer (Austrian, European, Polish); archer; strelets; serdiuk; janissary; Spanish rifleman; Dutch musketeer B - train drummer F - train officer P - train pikeman L - train roundshier H - train light infantryman Hot keys for 18th century barracks: S - train Highlander; musketeer (European, Saxon, Danish, Bavarian, Prussian) B - train drummer; bagpiper; pandur F - train officer G - train grenadier Hot keys for stable: S - train 17th century dragoon; Tatar; 17th century French rifleman D - train 18th century dragoon; French dragoon R - train 17th century heavy cavalry K - train 18th century heavy cavalry T - train light Polish rider; Croat; Sich Cossack; King's Musketeer F - train hetman G - train hussar Hot key for church: S - create priest Hot keys for shipyard: B - build boat P - build ferry G - build galley F - build frigate; xebec L - build battleship Y - build yacht Hot keys for artillery depot: R - build mortar H - build howitzer P - build cannon Hot keys for academy: K - repair cannons J - heal units Hot keys for upgrades: N - upgrade mine Y - upgrade at mill V - upgrade tower Hot keys for individual units: S - stand ground V - cancel stand ground D - disable attack E - enable attack P - patrol G - guard/don't guard Hot keys for formations: R - infantry column formation; cavalry wedge formation K - infantry square formation; cavalry column formation F - reinforce formation G - group/ungroup L - infantry rank formation; cavalry rank formation J - dismiss formation Hot keys for market: Shift + resource amount button (100, 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000) - multiply amount by 100. Other hot keys: L - open/close gates V - disembark ferry F11 - screenshot Ctrl + Right mouse-click - better alignment of units. This function provides a better view of the location of, e.g., several unit formations. ********************************************************** from the creators of cossacks: www.americanconquest.com ********************************************************** 3. Short instructions Cossacks: Back to War offers a gigantic range of 100 single missions to play. The missions are versatile and have been specially designed for you to enjoy all the aspects of true Cossacks gameplay. To play a single mission, just click on "Single Player" in the main menu of Cossacks: Back To War, then type in your name and click on the "Accept" button to enter the single player menu. Here, click on "Single Mission" to see a screen listing all 100 missions of this add-on. Choose one of the missions by clicking on its name, select one of the four difficulty levels and click on the "Start" button at the bottom of the right game panel to begin playing (Single Player -> Name -> Single Mission -> select mission and difficulty level -> Start). Cossacks: Back to War provides the widest range of Internet play since the time of the original Cossacks. You have the following Internet game possibilities, provided by the GSC Game Net server: the deathmatch introduced in Cossacks: European Wars; the Internet Rating System introduced in Cossacks: The Art of War; two special Internet systems provided in Back to War - the Automated Championship System and the Vizor game viewer.
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