Grim, fatalistic and dour, selflessly wading into some of the most gruellinh and abhorrent war zones satuarated with radiation or other toxins - or solar-decades-long sieges with sky-high casualty rates - the men and women of Krieg are a breed apart. Death Korps troops excel at wars of attrition and defensive combat in particular. The Death Korps of Krieg is a siege specialist Militarum Regimento of the Astra Militarum and the regiments raised on Krieg seek to repent for their people's former treachery against the Emperor by displaying a disturbing disregard for their own lives in combat.

Krieg was the site of a rebellion against the Imperium of Man over 1,500 standard years ago in the 40 th Millennium and was bombarded with nuclear weapons followed by five hundred Terran years of grinding warfare between Loyalists and Traitors to purge the heretical rebels.Īfter all those years of nuclear destruction and bitter trench warfare, Krieg was reduced to a scorched, radioactive husk of a world composed of dust and mud whose surviving people were forced to retreat into underground hive cities to survive the toxic planetary environment. They are most commonly deployed in the war zones of the Segmentum Tempestus and Segmentum Solar and are particularly skilled at attritional trench warfare, sieges of and assaults upon heavily fortified static positions and warfare in extreme environments known for their biological, chemical and radioactive hazards.Ī typical Death Korps of Krieg infantryman

The Death Korps of Krieg is the name given to all of the Astra Militarum regiments that originate from the devastated, post- atomic Death World of Krieg in the Segmentum Tempestus. Final litany of the Litany of Sacrifice, recited by Krieg Korpsmen when entering battle

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