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Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« on: September 07, 2024, 12:57:47 pm »

I was wondering where to post a thread about this rather ancient game, so I guess I'll put it here.





Hawks European Warfare is a rather ancient mod for an old Cossacks spin off called American Conquest. The mod is mainly focused on historical battles such as Borodino, Austerlitz, etc., where players can fight to the death with their historically matched armies, a few examples can be found here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6GtlucozeA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axd3E-oqic0



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUh-_Rzidvg


(Channels are not mine, I'm rather new to the game myself)

I came upon this game randomly when one of the videos popped up in my feed, and it has been extremely enjoyable. The old group of players that used to play this game have largely disappeared over the last 10 years, but a couple of veteran players were keeping it alive, and now it is experiencing a revival in interest.

The video's by "derp" or "Sul" have download instructions in their video descriptions, but I can link a more comprehensive download manual here:
https://hawks-gaming-club.freeforums.net/thread/2/basic-setup-hawks-european-warfare



We also play a civil war mod for AC: Divided Nation, which is also loads of fun, if anyone would like to play with us, we can be contacted at the forum or here: https://discord.gg/Y3HcQZMh  (I have to refresh this every once in a while, what a pain...)

Cheers!  :)





Here is a link for the civil war mod as an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHfeRuXKQ9g&t=855s

Here is the link for the civil war mod/game if anyone is interested: https://hawks-gaming-club.freeforums.net/thread/9/directions-installing-jhdn  )

« Last Edit: September 13, 2024, 11:29:05 am by NappyTheTired »
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Re: Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2024, 11:22:58 am »

Here is another video made recently: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrB1R1nVguY&t=1444s


« Last Edit: September 13, 2024, 11:38:23 am by NappyTheTired »
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Re: Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2024, 11:34:28 am »

Here is another video made recently: 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrB1R1nVguY&t=1444s





(The old images in the OP post disappeared, any way to make them last forever???)
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Re: Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2024, 11:59:21 am »

Haven't played the mods but the original games are great. Both Cossacks and American Conquest.
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Re: Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2024, 12:38:29 pm »

Haven't played the mods but the original games are great. Both Cossacks and American Conquest.

I am rather new to these games myself, comparatively speaking. Ths mod and the civil war one takes advantage of the morale mechanics in the AC games, to make more dynamic battlefields for multiplayer matches. Its quite fun.
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Re: Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2024, 12:48:04 am »

(The old images in the OP post disappeared, any way to make them last forever???)
Aside from hosting the images on your own server or on the paid cloud? Nah, just gotta hope that whatever site you use doesn't go under. The impermanence of stuff on the internet really sucks honestly, the day Imgur goes down or starts deleting old images is going to really suck.
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Re: Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2024, 01:20:50 pm »

I was trying a version I have in singleplayer, I think it was number 3. It's like Age of Empires with a much higher unit count. I've only done some campaign scenarios so far, so I don't know if the singleplayer computer player responds better at higher difficulty or if it cheats by having better resource or production or stats or such.
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Re: Hawks European Warfare (A Napoleonic Warfare Game, Freeware)
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2024, 05:17:18 pm »

I was trying a version I have in singleplayer, I think it was number 3. It's like Age of Empires with a much higher unit count. I've only done some campaign scenarios so far, so I don't know if the singleplayer computer player responds better at higher difficulty or if it cheats by having better resource or production or stats or such.

Hey. Unfortunately for the pre made maps, the AI actually does not exist, its simply a few pre set moves made by the coders to give the illusion of A.I.   However, the creator of the mod has recently come back from the dead, and is working on a new version with AI for the random maps (and hopefully the pre-made maps, including the ones used for multiplayer matches):

https://www.moddb.com/mods/european-warfare-napoleonica/news/big-news20

He gave me a few A.I's to test out, but I have been rather busy recently. if you would like me to give the A.I packets to you though, I can do so.
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Was able to make a working discord link that wont expire now for the American Conquest Disc: https://discord.gg/fx9HX52esU
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