

While the war began as a religious war, it evolved into a power struggle between the Kingdom of France and the House of Habsburg of the Holy Roman Empire. The war began as a conflict between certain Protestant and Catholic states in the Roman Empire, but it slowly came to involve more European powers until it eventually included almost all of Europe. In fact, in terms of the German losses, only the time frame of January to May 1945 during World War II surpasses the Thirty Years’ War. The casualties from this European war included eight million fatalities, which resulted from violence, famine, and plague.

The Thirty Years’ War was fought between 16, and while it is not a well-known war, it was one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. 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.The Defenestration of Prague: The War Begins 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. Thus, England is the mightiest sea power, Austria has powerful light and heavy cavalry, and Cossacks are the pride of the Ukrainian army.īattles of up to 8,000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps.

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.

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. 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.
