Two new soldiers will be added to the game in the upcoming update 0.10:
Georg Ackermann
As the son of a foreman, Ackermann also found work in the steelworks and has since earned himself a position as a boiler operator. He comes from Kassel, is married, and his young son had just turned one when he was called up. Ackermann will struggle to fit into the new structures at the front and to not being able to support his family from there as much as he would like.
Jan Fleckner
Fleckner comes from a rather impoverished middle-class background. His mother had saved every penny from an early age to enable her son to study architecture in Dresden. There he meets the Brücke group of artists and discovers a completely different, freer way of life. When Fleckner joins your troupe, he has already had some difficult experiences at the front. Accordingly, his renewed conscription affects him particularly deeply.
In designing Fleckner, we received a great deal of support from the Brücke-Museum in Berlin, and we would like to express our sincere thanks to our contacts Johannes Berger and Isabel Fischer for their invaluable assistance. Above all, they helped us to understand the impact of the First World War on German artists, especially those from the Brücke group and their circle, and how they experienced the war and processed it in their art. They also provided us with the following three images to use as loading screens in the game and helped us to contextualise them in relation to the First World War:
We are very excited to hear about your experiences with the two new soldiers after the release of our upcoming update 0.10.