Out now on Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Tannenberg is a standalone expansion to WW1 multiplayer FPS Verdun, taking the 1914-1918 WW1 Game Series to the Eastern Front. Warfare between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers is a tense battle for dominance – stay close to your squad to survive!
Tannenberg brings the massive battles of the Eastern Front in WW1 to life with players fighting for control of key sectors of the battlefield, each one offering a distinct strategic advantage. Warfare between the Russian Empire, Germany, and their allies offers a fresh experience for first person shooter players and history aficionados alike.
There are seven squads, 50+ weapons, eight large maps that give players tactical freedom, and full AI bot support so you can experience epic battles at any time! Everything has been recreated with the same attention to detail seen in Verdun, the first entry in the WW1 Game Series.
This historical game takes place across the lakes, forests, mountains and snowy plains of the Eastern Front - it was inspired by the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, one of the most iconic encirclement battles in history. Players will be able to master a range of authentically modelled equipment brought to the field by Russian Frontovik and Cossack squads, the renowned Latvian Riflemen, or the Roumanian infantry squad., Alternatively they can join the Central Powers to serve in an Austro-Hungarian K.u.K. unit, with the German Infanterie, or in the Bulgarian rifle section.
Tannenberg offers several game modes - including the exciting Maneuver game mode reflecting the nature of war on the Eastern Front, as players battle across large maps where the objectives and battle lines are always shifting. Survive the deadly battles by working together with your four man squad and utilizing your distinctive skills. There is a wealth of historical detail including realistic WW1 weaponry, authentic uniforms, horrendous gore, and maps based on real battlefields.
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We've written bits and pieces about the light machine guns in Isonzo (as distinct from the heavy machine guns which are static weapons placed by the map designers) but never brought them all together. If you haven't tried them out, you can unlock them by completing Assault class missions.
The German faction was added to Isonzo way back in December 2022, and they brought with them the third light machine gun to feature in the game: the Maschinengewehr 08 / 15, or MG 08/15 for short. It's an adjusted version of the basic MG 08 heavy machine gun, which is itself based off the original Maxim gun from 1884.
The MG 08/15 was first used in 1917 during the Second Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front. Overall it did the job, but was never an excellent weapon. It was heavy compared to the French Chauchat LMG, with the water cooling system compounding the issue. Fortunately in Isonzo you don't have to carry it all the way to the frontline.
In Isonzo the MG 08/15 is limited to the German Assault class, and within that class limited to a maximum of 2 users at a time. These limitations also apply to the machine guns used by the Italian and Austro-Hungarian Assault classes. Even with the need to deploy for accurate fire, light machine guns are extremely powerful weapons so it makes gameplay sense to limit their employment. At the same time, they were historically limited, even with increasing German efforts to equip their troops with more light machine guns.
For example, a German company would have around 240 men, and by 1918 with a full complement, each company would have 6 MG 08/15s. From that perspective, having 2 LMGs available for the 24 German soldiers in a match is generous - as you might expect for the assault troops in the thick of the action.
An interesting fact: the gun lives on in the German dialect, with nullachtfünfzehn being colloquially used to refer to something that's entirely average and unremarkable.
The MG 08/15 in Verdun
The MG 08/15 appeared in our first game, Verdun! They could be used by machine gunners in the Landser and Schützen squads. Verdun also had the rarer MG15n.A. and MG08/18 light machine guns.
We've written about the Villar Perosa before, in one of the earliest Isonzo Dev Diaries.
A fascinating weapon with a distinctive double barrel design (actually two entire firing mechanisms coupled together) it was originally intended to be an aircraft weapon, as well as a man-portable gun. It wasn't so effective in the air, but served well with ground troops. Technically it could be considered a submachine gun because it fires handgun cartridges instead of rifle cartridges.
The Austro-Hungarian Assault class makes use of the Madsen, a Danish light machine gun that was used around the world into the Second World War and beyond. When the First World War broke out, Austria-Hungary was not in a position to develop their own light machine gun, so they purchased Madsens directly from Denmark.
While mass production of the Madsen began in 1902 (and continued until 1955), the design process started back in the late 1880s with Danish artillery officer Captain Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen attempting to create a self loading rifle with the help of Danish Arsenal technician Rustmester Rasmussen. However, Captain Madsen left to become the Danish Minister of War before the Madsen machine gun was invented - credit for that should go to a Lieutenant Jens Schouboe, who patented it in 1901.
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This looks great! Great job!
Отличная игра!