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Death Korps of Krieg and Titanicus at the Siege of Vraks
#Warhammer#40k#Imperium#Imperium of Man#Legio Titanicus#Astra Militarum#Imperial Guard#Death Korps of Krieg#Siege of Vraks#Sci-Fi#Mecha#Games Workshop
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I’m redoing Mamon Transfigured from the Siege of Vraks. I’ve simplified the original conversion, because the silhouette wasn’t that good.
I kept the Bane pose from Batman, where he’s just standing there holding his bullet proof vest, I kept that element but deleted all the chains and the two massive horns from his back.
This will be an exercise in textures and necrosis, let’s see if I’m talking horse shit or I can really express what my mind is projecting
#warhammer 40k#40k#siege of vraks#Mamon transfigured#chaos space marines#kitbash#nurgle#wip#warhammer#death guard
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many fall in the face of chaos
but not this one
not today
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Oh dope.
Siege of Vraks book coming out later this year.
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Why do I do this to myself? I'm not even halfway through Arch's Siege of Vraks.
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Some good news: this Siege of Vraks map that originally would have shipped with the first Siege of Vraks volume arrived from the UK via @chapbloke (many thanks), which completes my Siege of Vraks set
#warhammer 40k#warhammer#imperial guard#death korps of krieg#siege of Vraks#forge world#originally ordered this back in March
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I got a bit distracted
These 3rd party vraks lookalike bits came in last night, and I just had to play with them.
They've got legs from the bulldogs kit from Wargames Atlantic, and the arms are from that kit, but the bulk of it is from the blooded killteam kit from gw. These guys look really good brandishing melee weapons and running into battle like crazed lunatics. They'll make great catachan/melee cultists for my renegades. Fingers crossed for a cultist detachment this spring when csm get their codex.
#warhammer 40k#warhammer#hunter's hobby logs#warhammer 40000#militarum tratoris#renegades and heretics#traitor guard#the lost and the dammed#chaos cultists#vraks militia#siege of vraks
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Love can bloom on Vraks, with live Mamon reaction
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While the Imperial Armour books focused on the big picture, this novel zooms right into the plight of the common soldier and follows an officer named Tyborc as he navigates both the battlefields of Vraks and the irrepressibly sacrificial tendencies of his own regiment.
Memes Are Real.
Krieg getting new wave later this year unofficially confirmed.
I can see the reposted shovel memes now.
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I'm a slut for some 40k lore, tell me about the funny gas mask men with the shovles
Ah yes, the Death Korps of Krieg.
Krieg is a toxic, radioactive Death World within the Imperium of Man, and it is the homeworld of the Astra Militarum's Militarum Regimentum known as the Death Korps of Krieg.
Known for their common deployment in the war zones of the Segmentum Tempestus and Segmentum Solar, the Death Korps 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.
Why are they like this? It's simple, nuclear armageddon.
Krieg was the site of a rebellion against the Imperium over 1500 years ago, in response to the rebellion the Loyalists bombarded the surface of the world with nuclear weapons, which was then followed by 500 years of grinding trench and tunnel based warfare between the Loyalists and Traitors.
After those centuries of nuclear destruction and tunnel warfare, Krieg was reduced to a radioactive husk, and its people were forced to live Metro 2033 style in underground hive cities to survive the toxic environment.
This forged them the people of Krieg into grim, fatalistic and dour individuals, and the soldiers of the Death Korps are even more so, they selflessly wade into the most abhorrent war zones satuarated with radiation and other toxins.
The military engagement they're involved are often decades long sieges with astronomically high casualty rates, and only those of Catachan stock are comparable to the men and women of Krieg.
Almost all Imperial Guardsmen from Krieg, save vehicle crews, wear their distinctive and highly advanced respirator units that filter out toxic and radioactive particles.
These gasmasks are a relic of their world, and act as a legacy and reminder of Krieg's eternal service to the needs of the Imperium.
Oh yes, and I forgot to mention, the nuclear armageddon was not a one off thing, the Loyalists didn't just fire the nukes once, they had kept firing nukes for the 500 years they were fighting the Traitors.
Now I don't need to tell you this as it is fairly obvious, the Death Korps of Krieg are modeled after WWI German soldiers, the trench warfare of WWI, while their name means War in German.
The helmet top shares a profile with the French Adrian helmet while the bottom part is clearly inspired by the German Stalhelm.
The iconic gasmask is extremely similar to the British SBR gasmask used during the war.
The bayonet is modeled after the American M1917 Bayonet.
The Lasgun Model 98 is named after the German Gewehr 98.
The breastplate worn by Krieg Officers and Death Riders is inspired by the French Cuirassier breastplate.
The Krieg soldiers retreat when an objective proves too much, is a waste of men and materiel or is a tactical decision to ensure victory.
While this all make sense, have you actually heard of them running in fear? Became they have, on page 72 of Imperial Armor Volume 5, the 158th Regiment of the 12th Line Korps routed due to heavy heretic resistance on the second Vraksian defense line.
They retreated and even fragged their own commissars who tried to stop the retreat.
Aside from that, there are multiple instances of Krieg engineers screaming in fear as they faced Khornate Beserkers, proving that they are not unfeeling soldiers bred for war, their grim outlook is a byproduct of their environment, they aren't soldier who will march endlessly to their deaths, it just takes longer for them to break in comparison to other Imperial Guard units.
That said, I think it's important to consider that the Siege of Vraks, fall of Orpheus, and Dead Men Walking portrayals of Krieg all vary considerably, as each is an interpretation by a different author.
It is hard to picture the automatons of Dead Men Walking or the other short stories by Steve Lyons acting in the same manner as the Krieg soldiers in the routs described in Siege of Vraks.
Outside of those sources there are also occasional examples of Krieg soldiers who are pretty much indistinguishable from cadians in gasmasks.
Unfortunately Krieg soldiers caving in heretic skulls with their entrenching tool is a meme the community came up with and is not canon.
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A Chaos-corrupted Ogryn Berserker of the Vraksian Traitor Militia during the Siege of Vraks.
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Horus Heresy: On one hand they had a full nine legions of the God-Emperor's Angels of Death. On the other hand, they only even came close to succeeding because of the Istvaan Dropsite Massacre and the Ruin Storm, neither of which would work on the others.
War of the Beast: The Krorks are basically unfallen Orks, the Orks that lived during the War in Heaven. They were from before the Immaterium became the Warp. They were also a complete failure to write a coordinated story, so who knows what they could actually accomplish. Other than the fact they combined a Super-Duper Warboss with a Super-Duper Wyrdboy. They could probably ignore warp storms.
Siege of Vraks: This was kept going by bureaucratic incompetence, which the Imperium has an abundance of.
War for Armageddon: Everyone was fighting everyone. It would only take an extremely small change to completely change how things unfolded.
Badab: Badab was defeated by the shear inevitability of plot. The only way the Imperium could defeat Badab was by... completely retconning everything about Badab. This could only be done by a villainous pact with the ruinous powers. The Tyrant's ultimate discipline was turned into buffoonish villainy.
Black Cruades: 14th time the charm.
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The Siege of Vraks Fought by Idiots | Arma 3 WARHAMMER 40K
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Watches about the siege of Vraks.
Sighs.
Gets a drink.
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So this set arrived today
It’s a bit dinged up which is disappointing but, what can you do
The amount of material in these books compared to subsequent editions is staggering. It almost makes it seem like Forgeworld used to be worth the money.
Couldn’t get the spines printed in the same color though…
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