Cossacks European Wars is a real time strategy (RTS) wargame based in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Emphasis is placed on historical accuracy, and an excellent manual and on disc manual accompanies the game.

Using a fixed isometric view, you build towns and fortresses and deploy your troops and cavalry in the usual RTS manner. There is resource management in the form of chopping wood, fishing and mining.

Although entitled Cossacks... the game actually allows you to play under the flag of a wide range of European nations. Each having its own building designs, separate troops and specialist troops and weapons.

Naval battles are included as are invasions via ships across oceans and wide rivers.

There is a method of grouping and controlling your troops in the fixed formations common to the period depicted. Up to 8,000 individual units can be active on screen, so the scale of battles is immense.

Single player, set campaigns, random maps and Multiplayer supported.

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Alternate Titles

"哥萨克：欧洲战争" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
"Казаки: Европейские Войны" -- Russian Title
"Kozacy: Europejskie Boje" -- Polish title

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Cossacks series

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User Reviews

Best RTS since Age of Kings	Maw (849)	unrated
Almost real! Mass anarchy of battle clashes. A combination of Age of Empires and Shogun:Total War.	Indra was here (14900)
A rip-off of WarCraft, wargamers keep off, WarCraft players, keep off.	Jacques Guy (55)
A total misfire (boom boom)	Curlymcdom (47)

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The Press Says

GamingExcellence	Jul 27, 2001	9.3 out of 10	93
ESC Magazine	Sep 05, 2001	9 out of 10	90
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Apr, 2001	84 out of 100	84
4Players.de	Dec 08, 2000	83 out of 100	83
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	77 out of 100	77
Jeuxvideo.com	Apr 04, 2001	15 out of 20	75
Svenska PC Gamer	May, 2001	75 out of 100	75
Gamezilla	May 22, 2001	75 out of 100	75
Game Over Online	Apr 23, 2001	73 out of 100	73
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 2000	69 out of 100	69

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Trivia

Cover art

The box features a part of Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks painting by Ilya Repin (1891).

Sales

As of 2005, Cossacks and its two add-ons have sold 2.5 million copies.
In 2001, Cossacks: European Wars won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.