My obsession of last year is back. It scratches my itch for space 4x better than anything else I've played. Highly detailed ship design and economic development. Multiplayer, so you're testing yourself against real intelligences. A small pond of suckers No feeling that I've dropped into a giant ten year old meta that I'll never catch up to.

Not quite the detail of Aurora, but it functions better as a multiplayer game. Much love for it.

Also Adding some older videos here for the sake of it:

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Some of these videos are REALLY old, lol.

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:

  (A 2v1 Borodino match)

(A 1v1 Heilsburg match)

(A 3v2, a rather brutal assault at Arcis Sur Aube)
(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/5AXTJTcU

If you would like to find us at the American Conquest Discord, it can be found here (link wont expire now):https://discord.gg/fx9HX52esU

Cheers!