Command massive armies in a historical real-time strategy game set amid Europe's 16th- to 18th-century wars of nation-building and destruction. Lead one of 16 nations like England, Austria, or Ukraine, each with distinct graphics, economic paths, tech trees, military strengths, and unique units that shape your tactics. England dominates seas, Austria fields elite cavalry, and Ukraine unleashes fierce Cossacks against any foe.
Fight epic battles with up to 8,000 units across single-player or network maps, tackling city sieges, guerrilla raids, ambushes, landings, and naval clashes. The system cuts unit-by-unit micromanagement to focus on building economies, advancing science, seizing territories, and guarding frontiers. Strategy fans who crave grand-scale historical warfare will find deep tactical layers here.
Cossacks: European Wars is a historical real-time strategy based on events of the 16th through the 18th centuries in Europe, when nations and states were created and demolished, and wars shed seas of blood. There are 16 nations or regions in Cossacks: Algeria, Austria, England, France, the Netherlands, Piemonte, Poland, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venice. Each has its own original graphics, economic and technical development peculiarities, military advantages and drawbacks, and unique units and technologies, providing vast choices of tactics and strategy in war against any enemy. Thus, England is the mightiest sea power, Austria has powerful light and heavy cavalry, and Cossacks are the pride of the Ukrainian army.
Battles of up to 8,000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps. One can carry out lingering city sieges, wage guerilla wars, capture commanding heights and arrange ambushes, deploy landing forces on enemy shores, and conduct sea battles. The game system is arranged to reduce per-unit control and resource micromanagement, and to turn to global goals of powerful economy formation, science development, the capturing of new lands, and defending borders.
