# Eastern Wars

> A real-time tactics game for Android. Command the Cossack Hetmanate, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in the battles of Khmelnytsky's war and the wars with the Turks. Made by Dmytro Gladkyi (Loca Deserta, Ukraine). Coming soon to Google Play (package `com.gladimdim.easternwars`).

Eastern Wars is a mobile real-time tactics game set in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The player commands regiments — blocks of painted soldiers whose width is their frontage and depth their ranks — of the Cossack Hetmanate, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. Terrain (height, slope, rivers, marshes, villages, fortifications) and morale decide battles. Battles last 8–15 minutes, play offline, and have no ads, accounts or data collection. Languages: English, Ukrainian, Polish; regiments are voiced in Ukrainian, Polish, Turkish and Crimean Tatar.

The site is trilingual: English at https://ew.locadeserta.com/, Ukrainian at https://ew.locadeserta.com/uk/, Polish at https://ew.locadeserta.com/pl/. In Ukrainian the game calls Khmelnytsky's war «війна за Україну» (the war for Ukraine).

## Pages

- [Home (English, Markdown)](https://ew.locadeserta.com/index.md): everything on the home page as Markdown — features, comparison, nations and regiments, the 12 campaign battles, the historical chronicle 1620–1683, FAQ.
- [Головна (українською, Markdown)](https://ew.locadeserta.com/uk/index.md)
- [Strona główna (po polsku, Markdown)](https://ew.locadeserta.com/pl/index.md)
- [Full text for LLMs](https://ew.locadeserta.com/llms-full.txt): the English Markdown page plus regiment data.
- [Privacy policy](https://ew.locadeserta.com/privacy.html): no personal data collected; purchases, if any, handled by Google Play.

## Key facts

- Genre: real-time tactics / historical strategy. Platform: Android phones and tablets (landscape).
- Campaign "Khmelnytsky's War, 1648–1655": 12 battles — Zhovti Vody, Korsun, Pyliavtsi, Lviv, Zamość, Zbarazh, Zboriv, Berestechko, Bila Tserkva, Batih, Zhvanets, Okhmativ. The army carries over between battles.
- Second campaign "The Crown's War, 1648–1655": the same war from the Commonwealth side (6 battles).
- Nations: Cossack Hetmanate (with Crimean Tatar allies), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ottoman Empire.
- Modes: campaign, skirmish against the computer (three difficulty levels), two-phone battles over local Wi-Fi.
- Compared with similar games: same period as Cossacks 3 but no base building or economy; regiment battles like Total War but no campaign map; made for touch screens.

## Media

- [Battles trailer (gameplay)](https://ew.locadeserta.com/media/trailers/battles.mp4)
- [Regiments trailer](https://ew.locadeserta.com/media/trailers/regiments.mp4)
- [Story trailer](https://ew.locadeserta.com/media/trailers/story.mp4)
- [Regiment data (JSON)](https://ew.locadeserta.com/media/units/units.json)

## Related

- [Loca Deserta](https://locadeserta.com/): the studio's other games about the Cossack era (SICHA: Cossack Combat, Sloboda 2, Odesa, Chumaki).