Editing Death Korps of Krieg (section)

==Facts/Notes==
*Due to the Krieger ideology of repentance to the Emperor, dying is considered the greatest honor for an average Krieger, and dying while achieving a great victory is a Krieger's wet dream. The Death Korps of Krieg's version of Heaven (or at the very least an equivalent concept) is to achieve a great victory for the Imperium while sustaining 100% casualties. They would be the perfect soldier for the Normandy Landings or Stalingrad. They will attempt to achieve a glorious victory while drowning the enemy with their corpses.
* The Death Korps of Krieg kill.
* They seriously do not fuck around.
* They have [[Rough riders|cuirassiers that ride horses with fucking rebreathers.]] Yep...
* The lasgun model they use is called the "Lucius" Pattern No.98, in keeping with their German WWI inspiration, (the standard-issue Mauser rifle was the model 1898). More powerful per shot than most lasguns, but it might blow up if you fire it too quickly.
* The Death Korps of Krieg resemble old World War I soldiers, with most people thinking they are German because of their name and the ''stahlhelm''-style helmets. However, the overall design of the Korps is actually a mix between various armies from WWI and even the 19th century; the helmet is a ''stahlhelm''-Adrian hybrid, the uniform is mostly French, the gas mask looks like British-American models, the grenadiers' armour plates are undoubtedly German and the Death Riders and officers are French cuirassiers from the Napoleonic Wars with the same WWI flavour. Meanwhile their tanks, while the same Russes as everyone else in the Guard, have the trench-rails of WWII French tanks.
* I bet they allow the use of hardcore cocaine. And they won't take it because it doesn't help in killing heretics or dying ''fast enough''.
* They have cool looking "Grenadiers" for, well, grenadiering?
* They don't desert, ever (they're not all that into sweet things anyway).
* They're German-French-British-Russian, so of course they're gonna win (after taking a stupidly high amount of casualties).
* "Kill confirmed" is the only thing they ever say <s>in combat</s> ever.
* <s>They don't fly aerial vehicles, they just crash them into enemy AA guns. 50/50 chance of them still surviving.</s> They fly CAS and bomber aircraft into the most suicidal of missions, and once irreparably damaged, suicide-bomb them into enemy AA to clear the way for other air units.
* Krieger pickup lines are notoriously bad, so bad they make the Mechanicus look like Barry White! Notable lines include "Contributing to a cloning vat of fetuses with you would be an appropriate use of our genetic material", "Corporal, share this additional synthesized Mechanicus issued ration bar with me at sixteen hundred hours", "Would you like to go for some recaf with me? I used water from a shell hole and it was warm three hours ago”, (so far so good), “I have fixed my bayonet, I shall now CHAAAAAAAAARGE!” (Ew), "I found this bombed-out fox-hole near our position, it's an acceptable location to swap reproductive fluid", and "My gene donors are away on a suicidal bayonet charge this weekend, I've got the whole barracks to myself, and I just picked up a mixslate of the most rousing Krieg anthems" (hint: apart from Nazi-type marches, it sounds like lasguns firing, orders being yelled, screams of the wounded, explosions, and marching boots...suuuper romantic).
* Rejection in Krieg is common, because most Kriegers are male, look like each other and fucking in the Emperor’s service on Krieg is not only blasphemous, it will likely result in your willy melting off from radiation sickness. Common excuses include "I'm washing my bald, scarred, irradiated scalp", "I'd love to but I have a Tyranid invasion to stop", "The offer is tempting, but I've just been ordered to charge that dugout, gonna be busy all day", "I can't go to the military parade with you, I'm dying for the Empra tomorrow", and "I like you as a squad mate, you’re like a brother-in-arms to me".
*If Krieg and Cadia swapped places Abaddon would have stayed in the Eye of Terror (but the Imperial casualties would have increased by an order of magnitude).
* A romantic evening to a Krieger usually involves barbed wire, grey dugout positions, landmines, a searchlight, filthy latrines, an emplaced heavy machine gun, trench foot, and some sensual stick bombs.
* Their response to [[Necrons]] fucking vaporizing them is to continue firing, but also make sure to drop their weapon when they are hit so as to preserve as much of their equipment as possible.
* Kill or be Killed, either way, Krieg is redeemed. One millimetre at a time. (or, they will redeemed...once the pencil pushers of the Administratum and Munitorum decide they are "redeemed".)
* A Krieg Death Corps trooper and a [[Catachan Jungle Fighters|Catachan Jungle Fighter]] got into a fight to see who was the most badass type of guardsman ever. Except no they didn't, because a true Krieger always has more important [[Gets shit done|shit to get done]]. That and a true Catachan is too busy wrestling jungle scorpions to go fight a doormat.
* They are highly popular with the Commissariat as they do not retreat. They hold the line.
* Fans do their heavy-WWI inspiration one better by portraying them as being highly eager to use [[Miscellaneous_Weapons#9-70 Entrenching Tool|sharpened entrenching tools/shovels]] in close-combat, though this has technically never really appeared in canon (the use of shovels in melee, that is. Their suicidal eagerness to get into melee is definitely canon as shit). At the very least, the recent Kill Team supplement did show use that Kriegers do indeed love WW1-style [[Basic Close Combat Weapons#Maul|Trench Mauls]], so that's a given.
* Will kill their commander if they are ordered to retreat more than a few times. <s>Unless they have a reason, that is</s> {{Blam| '''THEY NEVER HAVE A REASON TO RETREAT, AVE IMPERATOR'''!!!!!!!}}'
**Jokes aside, even the one time they broke was against literally the single worst batch of chemical weapons in Warhammer history (which is really saying something) on Vraks by the [[The Purge]]. It literally took a rolling blackout of super-heavy tank melting gas fired by the single most life hating unit of beings to ever exist to drive them off. By one trench line exactly. (And even then they weren't so much driven off as melted where they stood.) Even then, this isn't really "breaking" - they're strategically repositioning so they can die for the Emperor in a more useful way than being turned into poisonous slag.
* They look down on other regiments that aren't as suicidally fanatical and/or disciplined as they are, because of this they get along with the [[Mordian Iron Guard]] as they also share their fatalistic devotion to duty, and absolutely despise the [[Jopall Indentured Guard]] as they are the complete opposite of what the Korps believes a soldier should be (however, they also openly praise Jopallian marksmanship).
* Did I mention that the greatest victory for a Krieger unit involves 100% casualties?