Tannenberg News

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Experience first person mountain climbing in the Ascent game mode in our Italian Front FPS Isonzo! A team of Alpini must scale a sheer cliff face to capture an Austro-Hungarian outpost. Climbing is freeform so you can choose your own route up the mountainside - and you'll need to make use of that to try and catch the defenders by surprise!

The Austro-Hungarians will need to stay vigilant against sneaky climbers assaulting or bypassing their forward positions lower down the mountain. Piles of rocks will provide excellent improvised weapons to use in situations where a rifle might not be handy.

Get all the details about how Ascent mode works in the recent Isonzo blog.

The Ascent event is free for all Isonzo players to join, and will run until April 24th. If you don't own Isonzo yet, now's the perfect time because it's on discount!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556790/Isonzo/

We'll see you on the cliff face, soldiers.

This update should make your connection less prone to third party outages.

• Fixed certain connectivity issues with Epic Games Services.
  

The patch size is expected to be around 20 mb.

Historically with the Battle of Verdun the Germans hoped to inflict heavy casualties on the French by taking vital ground and then smashing their counter-attacks. This plan failed, with both sides suffering enormous losses over the course of one of the longest battles in history.

In our games, so far the Entente always win the campaigns, so we challenged the community to see if they could give the Central Powers an ahistorical victory, with the potential prize a teaser about the upcoming new Isonzo game mode. The result…

[h2]Entente Victory! Again.[/h2]
It’s not so easy to change the course of history. But, if you look at the numbers below you’ll notice the Central Powers only lost around 7000 more troops during the campaign. In previous campaigns the difference would usually be closer to 40-50,000 more Central Powers casualties.

The final results from the campaign.

It’s still a good performance, and while you couldn’t quite beat our challenge we’ve still decided to share a very mini-teaser with you:

[h3]You can see part of the combat area of the new map from the most recently released map in Isonzo: Marmolada.[/h3]

There will be a bigger teaser coming in next week’s Isonzo blog! If you don't own Isonzo yet and want to explore some higher altitude environments, including the famous Ice City of Marmolada, the game is currently on sale:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556790/Isonzo/

[h2]Have a great week, soldiers![/h2]

It’s the 21st of February, 1916. The German 5th Army has commenced their assault on the fortifications in the region of Verdun, after a small delay due to bad weather conditions. They moved for Fort Douaumont, the largest and highest fort of the region. This attack kicked off the longest single battle of WW1, lasting 9 months, 3 weeks and 6 days until December 18th. A true battle of attrition.

source: https://www.iwm.org.uk

In the end, the Battle of Verdun resulted in a combined total of an estimated 714,231-976,000 casualties, about 306,000 of which did not survive. It ultimately resulted in the victory of the French over a weakened and spread-thin German army. The French forces managed to retake much of the lost ground and key points during their counteroffensive in late 1916.

source: https://wereldoorlog1418.nl

[h2]In-game event[/h2]

Now, during the Battle of Verdun, heavy fighting was happening on all fronts. Starting Friday, February 23rd a weekend campaign will start in Verdun and Tannenberg. The Allied Powers versus the Central Powers, all casualties will be kept track of and added to the total losses. Whichever side suffers the least amount of casualties during the campaign will be victorious!



However, the Central Powers haven’t been able to secure a win so far! So, to give them a little bit of a push, let’s up the stakes a bit this time around: if the Central Powers manage to come out on top, we’ll give you your first big teaser for the upcoming new game mode in Isonzo!

The campaign will run through the weekend, until Monday morning. Time is of the essence, so get ready to head for the frontlines!

[h3]Join the campaign in your game of choice:[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/633460/Tannenberg/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/242860/Verdun/

Time sure does fly. It’s already been five years since the official release of Tannenberg! The Maneuver game mode was a big departure from the gameplay we knew from Verdun, and the Early Access period really helped us nail that down. With several content updates during EA and after the full release – including new maps like Dobrudja and new squads like the Latvian Riflemen – plus all the feedback from you, Tannenberg has been the complete Eastern Front experience for the past 5 years.

To celebrate the occasion, we invited some very special guests. Just a word of warning though: they always get a bit grumpy when they’re hungry, and we’re all out of cake.

[h2]The wolves are back on the prowl[/h2]

As if one enemy isn’t enough, another one bares its teeth. A temporary ceasefire is set in place between you and your usual enemy, so you can both focus on dealing with the new threat: a hostile pack of very hungry wolves.

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If you manage to fend off the wolves while respecting the ceasefire, everyone will receive a special Wolf Truce medal. Break the ceasefire however, and you’ll be fighting in a one versus one versus (ca)nine battle of life and death. You won’t even receive a medal to show for it!

The Wolf Truce event will be available from February 13th (right now) until February 19th.

[h3]A desperate winter[/h3]

The winter of 1917 was an especially cruel one. Harsh conditions and extensive battles between the Germans and Russian resulted in issues with supply lines and serious food shortages. Hunger was rampant and many perished from malnourishment.

The corpses of the fallen provided a prime opportunity for the locals, however. The wolves too were hungry this winter and were attracted to the bloodshed of the war. Exact numbers are unknown, but the wolf attacks may have been so fearsome at one point that the German and Russian troops called for a temporary ceasefire to join arms in fighting off this new threat.

To what degree these stories are true remains a debate to this day however, as the only sources are a handful of US newspapers.



[h2]Good luck out there![/h2]
Remember – don’t try to pet the dogs…