Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars announced

CDV Software has announced Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, the next installment in its popular Cossacks real-time strategy game series. The game will let players control one of 10 different European nations in a series of conflicts between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Cossacks II will feature six single-player campaigns with a total of 60 missions, 12 individual single-player scenarios, and 10 simulated historical battles. It will also include an extensive diplomacy system, extended formations and tactical orders, and a series of multiplayer modes. The game's 3D engine will include realistic projectile physics and will support up to 32,000 units per game.

Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars is scheduled for release in the second half of 2003.