The Death Korps of Krieg
What is the Death Korps of Krieg?
The Death Korps of Krieg is the name given to all of the Imperial Guard regiments that originate from the devastated,
post-nuclear Death World of Krieg in the Segmentum Tempestus. Krieg was the site of a rebellion against the Imperium of
Man over 1,500 standard years ago in the 40th Millennium and was bombarded with nuclear weapons followed by five
hundred years of grinding warfare to purge the heretical rebels. After 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. The Death Korps of Krieg is a
siege specialist regiment of the Imperial Guard and the regiments raised on Krieg seek to repent for their former treachery
against the Imperium by displaying a disturbing disregard for their own lives in combat. Death Korps troops excel at wars of
attrition and defensive combat in particular.
What we are about.
We are a small group of friends that have been playing Napoleonic Wars for a long time and are moving onto something
else. We also decided that we want a more mature setting to play games in. We are mostly interested in accepting 18+ members.
If you are younger than that but still interested in a mature gaming environment you can apply and join for a trial period. We chose
this Warhammer 40K regiment/corps as all of us were 40K fans when we were younger.
Back to the serious stuff.
Death Korps Officer
Death Korps Officers, right up to the level of regimental command, typically lead and fight from the front -- this is not so much
a conscious decision as a simple expression of the Death Korps mentality, as every Krieg Guardsman expects to fight and die for his
Emperor. To this end, officers commonly equip themselves for the front line with grenades, powerful sidearms and either a Chainsword
or Power Sword. Command squads wear their squad insignia (a "C" for command) on their right shoulder. Officer's helmets typically
bear an ornate Imperial Aquila. Unlike many other Imperial Guard regiments that draw their troops from worlds with a long-standing
militarised culture (such as the Mordians or Jantines for example), Krieg itself has no standing aristocracy or hereditary officer class.
Instead its officers are drawn from the body of the rank and file. This means that the majority of the Death Korps officer cadre has
been promoted through the ranks through a mixture of ability, seniority and often, by dint of simple survival. As veterans of the Death
Korps' way of war, they have no regard for high casualties, which has led to morale problems where senior Krieg officers have been
placed in charge of non-Krieg regiments in a wider theatre of war.
Death Korps Watchmaster
A Death Korps Watchmaster is the equivalent of a non-commissioned officer with the rank Sergeant in other Imperial Guard
regiments. Infantry platoons form the bulk of the Death Korps siege regiments' manpower. Each siege regiment consists of five
companies, which are broken down into ten infantry platoons and one heavy weapons platoon. Each company is led by a Death
Korps Captain who is assisted by one Veteran Watchmaster. Each platoon consists of a command squad and up to six infantry
squads. These squads are led by the Watchmasters who act as squad leaders. The Watchmaster is assisted by an appointed
senior guardsman, usually the longest serving guardsman in the squad. Like their fellow guardsman, Watchmasters have been
indoctrinated since birth in the martial traditions of the Korps. They are highly proficient with all the basic weapons of the Imperial
Guard and most especially with the bayonet, and favour the bayonet charge in battle. They fearlessly lead their squads across
"no-man's land" to storm enemy trenches and defences. Having no fear of death himself, a Watchmaster demands and expects
nothing less from their men.
Death Korps Guardsman
Each Death Korps soldier is fully trained to the standards expected for combat-readiness set down by the Departmento
Munitorum, with particular emphasis placed on hazardous-environment survival and endurance, and physical and mental
resilience. Proficient in the use of all basic Imperial Guard weaponry types as well as the use of grenades and explosives,
a Death Korps soldier is also proficient in rapid and skilled construction of trench works and defences. They are also exemplary
hand-to-hand combatants, with bayonet-drill being practiced from childhood. Accuracy is secondary in Death Korps weapons
training to fire discipline, with the ability to maintain continuous fire en masse as part of an infantry formation considered to
be of paramount importance. Death Korps Guardsmen have a tendency to be highly insular, unemotional and often taciturn
to the point of silence outside of their duties. They also display a high degree of fatalism and an unusual morbidity of habit,
such as carrying relics, ossuaries of bone or other memento-mori about their persons as a form of religious observance to
honour those who have fallen in the service of the God-Emperor.
So if you are looking for a nice group of guys that aren't 15 or squeeky come join us in our
glorious fight for the emperor.
Yes we did. Add AmrasCalmacil, elliot_olol or Freddyuno on steam for more info.
