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Cossacks goes gold

Montreal, Quebec. April 13, 2001 - Strategy First Inc. announced that Cossacks: European Wars has gone gold and will begin shipping on April 24th.

"Cossacks: European Wars is a brilliantly designed title. The graphics are beautiful and the gameplay is deep, innovative, challenging, and most of all fun. " says Steve Wall, V.P., Business Development. " We are very excited to be working with CDV again and look forward to bringing Cossacks to the North American market."
"CDV Software Entertainment USA Inc. is extremely pleased to have Strategy First as our publishing partner for Cossacks in the North American market," says Keith Rieger, President CDV USA. "We are confident their talented team will replicate their current success with Sudden Strike and promote Cossacks to the top of the charts!"

Cossacks is a real-time strategy game based on historical events of XVI to XVIII Century Europe. More than 85 large-scale wars and battles, most notably, the Thirty Year War, the English Revolution, the Spanish Succession, and the Seven Year War come back to life in this magnificent tribute to European history.

Players are able to orchestrate grand battles between sixteen nations, with up to 8,000 units and over 80 different unit types. Each nation possesses military forces in the infantry, cavalry, artillery and navy, with their own unique economic, technical and military advantages and drawbacks. Thus, providing a vast choice of tactics and strategy in a realistic war against the enemy.

Wars take place upon a 3D landscape where players must take advantage of the entire environment -by commanding heights, hiding behind obstacles and capturing enemy installations - all in an effort to claim victory against the enemy. Single player campaigns recreate historical scenarios in which players must fulfill objectives from territory exploration to army formation, sometimes with limited forces. Multiplayer action over LAN and Internet allows for up to 8 players to challenge each other in Random Map and Historical Battle modes.