Chernomoria Cossack

==In game==
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Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.	
Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.	
Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.	
Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.	
Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.	
Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.	
Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.	
Fast-moving light cavalry, meant for raiding and interception duty, especially against isolated pockets of light infantry. Slightly more powerful than Hussars, but somewhat costlier to train.
Prereq: 	Build time 	HP 	LOS 	Attack 	Attack speed 	Movementspeed 	 	
* [2]
* 	10.3s(155t) 	140 	9 	16 	1.4s(22t) 	41 	 	
Cost 	Cost 	Cost 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
Base 	Ramp 	Pop 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
: 60;: 30 	
:: 1;
:: 1 	1 	
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* 	3 	Melee 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
=== Overall strategy===
While seemingly similar in statistics to the generic Hussar, Cossack Lancers however cost Metal instead of Timber, and also have a faster attack, and more hitpoints, thus making them slightly more robust in comparison to the former. Their faster train time also means that as long as Food supply is guaranteed, a Russian player can easily pump out seemingly endless hordes of light cavalry on the map, granting them a light cavalry advantage against their other rivals.
===Unit summary===
=== See also ===
* Chernomoria Cossacks
==History==
The word "cossack" (Ukrainian: Козак) comes from the Turko-Tatar word “Kazak”, which means “free man”. The name was given to those who went to live in the steppe where they lived in settlements and abided by no laws and initially referred to Ukrainians who lived in the Steppes. While the original Cossacks per se were descended from those Ukrainians who lived in the Zaporozhian Host (in Ukrainian, Sich) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the term Cossack was used to refer to different othe Hosts, who are distinctly different in both history and culture than their Ukrainian counterparts. The Ukrainian Cossacks were known for fighting fiercely to protected or gain their independence, and were later recruited by the Russian state as light cavalry units. The prestige of both the Russian Empire as well as the Cossacks as fighting units eventually led to their traditions being copied elsewhere, most notably in Eastern Europe, Iran and even Korea.
For most of human history, The Black Sea has been a strategic and contested area for centuries due to its location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Thus, it was important for the fledgling Russian Empire, not just to expand into Ukraine and its neighbouring territories, but to also consolidate and exploit its position there, and beyond. 
One of the most important communities and military formations in the development of Russia's influence in this region as well as Russian modern history was the so-called Black Sea Cossacks. Originally descendents of the hitherto anti-Russian Zaporozhian Cossacks who inhabited the region around the present-day city of Zaporojia in southern Ukraine, they were persuaded by Prince Grigory Potemkin to support Russia in a conflict with Turkey. For their service in this war, these Cossascks were rewarded by the empress Yekaterina II in the 1790s with recently acquired lands further east in the northern half of the Caucasus. 
These cossacks were organised into the Black Sea host, resulting in as many as 25,000 people from Ukraine settling in the Kuban region around a newly founded city named Yekaterinodar (literally “Yekaterina’s gift”) founded in 1794 (present-day Krasnodar). Like many Cossack hosts, the Black Sea host would be heavily involved in military operations and police actions within the Caucasus and further afield, both in Europe to the west and in Central Asia to the east. Over time, the Black Sea Cossacks would also have a neighbour, the Azov Sea Host, and these two hosts would form the Kuban Cossack Host in 1864.
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