And yet it had the most sublime means of organising them. Cossacks, as I remember it, had no limit on unit numbers, which was a pretty big deal for the age of Age of Empires. My gateway drug to the RTS, only the drug is LSD. I love Cossacks - specifically Cossacks: European Wars, because it's the only one I played - for that very reason. A very specific, Eastern European, mounted, sort of cross-era renaissance man of a soldier, at once barbaric and civilised, ordered and chaotic. Cossacks! What an odd choice of infantry unit to build a game around.
