

The Cossacks fight against the Polish Commonwealth for their freedom. The nation, located in the middle to southern region of Eastern Europe, is comprised of wild-spirited independent fighters lead by Hetman Bogdan Hmelnitski. The Cossack Hetmanate was also called the Zaporozhian Host. The Cossack Hetmanate is a Ukrainian state that existed from 1649 to 1764. Today the Ukrainian Hetman fights under the hand of the Tsar of Moscow. Some years ago, the Zaporozhian Host, in a series of bloody battles, forced the Polish crown to grant them limited sovereignty, but now the times have changed.

Instead, all titles would be held by Orthodox Cossack leaders. But in this new nation, the Catholic Pole - the lyakh, as the Cossacks call him - he would no longer find himself among the gentry.

The Cossacks fight for their freedom and dream of one day forging their own state, one like the Polish Commonwealth, and just as powerful.
