How to play Cossacks: Campaign Expansion on Mac

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Game summary

This expansion contains four single-player campaigns from the original game "Cossacks: European Wars", and five – from "The Art of War": nine campaigns with 63 hardcore missions. Play additional 30+ hours of Cossacks! The campaigns allow becoming aware of historical events' large scale. Thus, grandiose battles of up to 8,000 units are fought on the map. The expansion contains much historical data, and the game itself includes a spacious encyclopedia about wars, battles, nations, technologies, armies, and units having been used in Europe in XVI-XVIII centuries. Large-scale wars and campaigns of XVI-XVIII centuries are available for single-player. The most noteworthy are: the English battles at the Caribbean’s, the Ukrainian independence war (1648-1657), Russian expansion to Europe, Thirty Years' War in France, Arabian pirates, and many more.
First released: Jan 2011

Play Cossacks: Campaign Expansion on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Cossacks: Campaign Expansion on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Cossacks: Campaign Expansion installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Cossacks: Campaign Expansion like you would on any PC.
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