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Five hundred years of self-inflicted nuclear civil war turned the hive world of Krieg into a radioactive charnel house and forged its survivors into the most implacable siege regiments of the Astra Militarum. Led by Colonel Jurten of the loyalist 83rd Regiment, the loyalists unleashed atomic purgation upon their own secessionist world on the Feast of the Emperor's Ascension in 433.M40. Emerging centuries later from subterranean bunkers, the Death Korps tithe tens of millions of faceless, numbered guardsmen who view their own lives as currency to be spent in the Emperor's name.
Appearance & wargear
Every Krieg Korpsman wears a heavy, mud-caked wool greatcoat, a dark steel stahlhelm with a brass ridge crest, puttees, and a skull-like leather gas mask tethered by a corrugated hose to a chest-mounted particulate filter, carrying a high-output Lucius No. 98 pattern lasgun and a notched trench shovel.
Weapons & Vehicles
The rugged, ubiquitous directed-energy laser rifle of the Astra Militarum—modest on its own, but capable of felling any foe in the gala…
A volatile liquid-promethium projector that floods bunkers, trenches and xenos swarms in clinging, self-oxidising gouts of cleansing ch…
A short-ranged thermal sub-molecular agitation weapon that flash-melts battle tank armour, bunker doors and heavy walkers into bubbling…
A volatile directed-energy rifle that hurls bolts of miniature sun-hot plasma capable of vaporising Terminator plate and tank armour—at…
The Imperium's main battle tank, a simple, tough and endlessly produced design named after the Primarch of the Space Wolves.
A super-heavy tank and one of the oldest STC designs in the Imperium, a mobile fortress crewed by ten men.
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Battlefield role & tactics
Specialists in attritional trench warfare, the Death Korps advance unblinking through poison gas, rad-storms, and creeping artillery barrages that would break any other human regiment.
Munitorum & Ordo Xenos Technical Dossier
Classified under Ordo and Departmento Munitorum threat-index protocols as a primary Specialists in attritional trench warfare, the Death Korps advance unblinking through poison gas, rad-storms, and creeping artillery barrages that would break any other human regiment. asset of Astra Militarum, Death Korps of Krieg relies on a tightly coupled symbiosis between operator conditioning and primary armament. Field maintenance and biological recovery logs indicate that extended deployment without liturgical recalibration or bio-stasis rest degrades targeting and metabolic stability by less than 4% per solar week—far outperforming standard sector baselines—while post-engagement recovery teams prioritize the immediate extraction of their core wargear, neural/gene-seed components, or machine-spirit memory cores before enemy scavengers can exploit them.
Notable battles & users
- 813–830.M41 — The Siege of Vraks: thirty-four Krieg Siege Regiments fought a seventeen-year war of attrition against Cardinal Xaphan and the Alpha Legion, suffering fourteen million casualties to retake a single armoury world.
- 998.M41 — Krieg regiments fought in the Third War for Armageddon and the defence of Tarsis Ultra against Hive Fleet Leviathan.
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