Death Korps of Krieg Tribute

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Facts:n 433.M40, the Autarch of the planet Krieg in Segmentum Tempestus declared himself independent from the Imperium and renounced the Emperor as his divine master. Krieg was then locked in civil war. Much of Krieg quickly fell to the rebels except for Hive Ferrograd which came under the command of the now infamous Colonel Jurten of the Krieg 83rd Imperial Guard. Under strict orders to not let Krieg fall but with the promise that no fleet on the scale that was needed to invade a planet was available Jurten decided that Krieg would either belong to the Emperor or to no one. On the day of the feast of the Emperors Ascension Jurten unleashed a counter attack of atomic cleansing that was to turn into a great purging. For days Krieg was engulfed in a sea of nuclear fire. Krieg's ecosystem collapsed and the planet was engulfed in a nuclear winter. But the civil war dragged on. The survivors from Jurten's purging were forced to exist in underground bunkers or deep in the radioactive chem-wastes, as their descendants do to this day. From the self-annihilation of their home world, loyalist troops slowly retook their world inch by inch over 500 years. From this the Death Korps were born. Krieg was finally returned to the Imperial rule in 949.M40. Recruitment for members of the Death Korps of Krieg is similar to many other Imperial worlds throughout the Imperium and conscription depends on varying circumstances. Most who join generally do so out of a sense of duty and as a way to atone for the previous rebellion against the Emperor. Officers ranks are difficult to obtain, as with certain regiments of the Death Korps you must work your way up the ranks from the bottom.

To ensure that only the toughest and best make it into the regiment, training is brutal and quickly weeds out the weak and unworthy. For this reason the regiment is able to maintain its famous standard of discipline and selflessness. Gasmasks are conventionally viewed as a second skin, as soldiers are trained to permanently operate with them if required. Fear of failure, and the ceaseless devotion to duty, honour and the Emperor are instilled in new recruits to make certain that they will stand their ground in combat under any situation. Mental conditioning is the key part of their training so soldiers are prepared for the horrors on the battlefield and beyond.

It should be noted that Krieg raises an unusually large number of regiments for a devastated planet. This is attributed to the use of cloning technology, which Krieg has been granted special dispensation to use as the result of their famous steel, determination and unswerving loyalty to the Emperor. Use of this technology is generally prohibited throughout the Imperium by the Adeptus Mechanicus, the custodians of the Imperium's technological lore. This may explain why Death Korp troops are rarely seen without their characteristic gas masks. Appearance-wise, the Death Korps are similar to the Armageddon Steel Legion, but have darker colors, and their masks usually have a skull motif. Of all the regiments of the Guard, they are the most grim and fatalistic, both in appearance and in spirit due to the 500 years of atomic purging the inhabitants of their home world inflicted on themselves. Uniform cut and design is almost consistent throughout the entire Death Korps but colours can vary from regiment to regiment and the officer ranks tend to have slightly more ornate uniforms than the rank and file. Spiked helmets are famously worn by the Death Korps of Krieg however this is rarely the case, but many troops maintain the tradition either with improvised spikes or, less commonly, older issues of the spiked helmet that have survived and been passed down through families.

As with every Imperial Guard regiment, the Death Korps are based on a real world army from history, and are similar in uniform and style to the German, French and Belgian soldiers of World War I.

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[ZanH0]

name of the music?

[CommissarCain34]

@ZanH0 Armored Prayer from Gears 2

[bullyboy1863]

I'm currently working on a story from the point of view of a Death Korps Sergeant. ^_^

[YorkGod1]

I'm a big warhammer reader, it'd be nice if a novel was wrote on this topic!!!!

[ImperialElite666]

its an honour to serve the emperor along side them, this should give those halo heratics a run for thier money

[daveeol1987]

nice discription love the fluff.oh and their clearly wwi german look at the oficers!

[0r4g3]

Gears of war 2 Theme !

[TylerAssady]

Can*

[TylerAssady]

Cqn you pls add german,military song or third reich pls

[avatus775544]

@SuperBomber01 I assume you know of the german WW1 Storm troopers that almost defeated the Russians, thats who i think their based off

[SuperBomber01]

@Fenris86 Oh, my mistake on the gas masks. But even then, the Warhammer40K wiki describes the DKoK as heavily modelled on the Imperial German Army - sure, maybe there's some influence from that of the French Army but appearance-wise overall, it's more geared to the IGA. But then again, it's not as if the DKoK are the only Imperial Guard type that are influenced purely from one historical army.

[Dorkus89Malorkus]

@Fenris86 Krieg is German for war, that alone shows that it's German themed.

The coat if Waffen SS themed from WW2 and the helmet looks like a pickelhaube without the pickel. That would be ceremonial ww1 Germany.

As for the weapons, I'm sure you're right on that.