Death Korps of Krieg
The Death Korps of Krieg is an Imperial Guard unit which hails from the planet of Krieg. They like entrenchments and gasmasks and are know for their iron discipline and suicidal tolerance for casualties. In fact they will take any objective/vanquish any enemy as long they have enough men to throw in the meatgrinder. What's the difference between other Guard units you ask? Those motherfuckers don't even give a shit. They're some sort of badass human lemmings.
Also, forgeworld has models that cost approximately 3 souls of firstborn children each, but you knew that already.
Background
The Civil War
Some time ago Krieg was a pretty sweet planet to live on, until the heretical dickwad of a Planetary Governor decided to detach from the Imperium. Needless to say the loyal citizens wouldn't let the rebel scum get away with that and a bloody civil war broke out. The loyalists were severly outnumbered though and only managed to seize control of a single hive called Ferrograd, due to the fact that a loyal Krieg Imperial Guard regiment under the command of a Colonel Jurgen was there, waiting to depart. While getting some turnips out of the basement Jurgen tripped over some nukes and decided to even the odds by blowing the world back to the stone age. Afterwards, after just 500 years of continual terrible war, the loyalists managed to lay Krieg back into the paralyzed lap of the Emperor. Today the citizens of Krieg celebrate the day their hero Colonel Jurgen destroyed their planet's ecosystem on "Jurgen Day", when everybody digs out entrenchments and practices NBC weapons drills, just like every other day.
The Death Korps
The inhabitants of Krieg are mad sorry for their disgraceful past and try to make up for it by being the baddest motherfuckers since the Empra himself. In fact they've been so successful in producing hardass guardsmen that the Adeptus Mechanicus Biologis gave them some pills that make their women hornier and more fertile, so that they can produce even more top notch cannon fodder, which is important, because Krieg is a radioactive shithole, and most of them are sterile. So sterile that most Kriegers are born of complex gene-cloning. Their society is _absolutely_ militarized. Children are being born only to be filled with the guilt of their ancestors, trained and sent to die for their Emperor. Contrary to other less brainwashed loyal units they're truly happy to do so and would die with a smile on their lips for the glory of the Emperor, if they'd ever smile. Srsly, those guys are like stone cold. You'd rather chat with a necron than a Krieg trooper. They dont even have names. They're for example called Trooper #1337 or Major Alpha both to underscore what expendable clones they are and because they don't give a flying fuck about anything else than marching, dying gloriously and shooting heretics in the head. As such gung-ho individuals they technically dont even have the need for commissars, since their deserting rate is practically zero and the officers will happily execute their soldiers themselves if need occurs. Commissars that are sent their way are usually sent in to say "Captain I know you want your charge in and stab those Orks in the face with your bayonets, but if you do that maybe one in ten is getting out of that alive. The Emperor needs you alive and we are going to goddamn wait until a situation comes where we can have enough survivors for the next battle and if you order a charge, it's blamming time for you."
The Munitorium has a hard on for these guys because unlike guardsmen from other places they always obey orders to the letter, even especially when it means dying in droves.
See Also
- Love and Krieg, and its various spin-offs.