They don’t normally just go around and exterminatus every planet, just when a planet is completely lost. For Vraks this was a mere rebellion and the planet had VAST armories full of weapons and ammunition that the Imperium wanted to reclaim.
If you guys are asking why their underground. It's because their planet (Krieg), rebelled against the imperium in one point in the 40k timeline. Cause great battles to be fought in the surface, and in a last-ditch effort to drive the loyalist in the planet, the Kriegmen/women launch a nuke like missile. Which made the surface of the planet inhabitable to any life. And if your are asking the reason how the Krieg even mange to create suck vast army, it's believe that they use clones in order to keep the numbers running. Also in a family the first child must enter service in the military once they know how to aim (even it means the child is somewhere in the age of 5-6). Also the reason why their praying, it's because they see the emperor of mankind as a god (even he was the one who destroyed religions on Terra), and they ask for his forgiveness once they die in battle And the weapons you guys saw is called a lasgun/lasrifle (a.k.a the flashlight) and it is a Lucius pattern lasgun. Also the fleet was consisting of a starfort and I believe destroyers, cruisers, battleships and carriers
There is actually another theory in being able to field vast army, where instead of cloning, each Kreig male and female before deployment were expected to donate their sperm and eggs to be incubated artificially in a artificial wombs which purifies the radiation issues and increase surivival rates. Personally I like this theory more since this makes it even more tragic and grim compare to the clone theory. But then again I personally don't think much of clones as real people to begin with.
@@Methyll I think in the new Krieg book it is stated that they are clones or that they use the technology I can’t tell you myself see that I haven’t reed it so I can be there for wrong on that
Krieg was once a prosperous Hive World (basically a planet covered in mountain-sized cities home to tens of billions of people), under the rule of a council of rich autocrats. For a time, this was all well and good, until the autocrats grew resentful of rule and laws from distant Terra and rebelled, declaring the planet independent and renouncing the worship of the God-Emperor. A massive civil war ensued between the autocrats and the loyalist Imperial forces. At one point, a Krieg colonel named Jurten, the only officer of any significant rank left on Krieg and in the defense of Hive Ferrograd, unleashed what would become known as "The Purging", firing hundreds of nuclear missiles into the sky and on the surface, killing all non-human life on the planet and rendering it a barren rock. The civil war would continue for another 500 years as the loyalists took back their planet and dedicated themselves to giving soldiers to the Imperium and sending them off to sacrifice themselves in the most brutal battles imaginable as penance for Krieg's rebellion.
@@GMineo Terra and local Segmentum command had already declared Krieg practically lost and refused to send reinforcements, considering the Imperial forces required to relieve a well-fortified Hive World like Krieg better spent on other fronts. Krieg's loyalist forces were dwindling and many of the hives had already been lost. Jurten was under strict orders to not let Krieg fall but also painfully aware that time was running out. It was the only option he had left, declaring that either the Emperor would have Krieg or no one would.
The inscription on the wall, that the guy is standing in front of, is in High Gothic (Latin). It's the core line belonging to the Death Korps "Litany of Sacrifice". Basically the idea that they hold sacred. It says "In life, war. In death, peace. In life, shame. In death, atonement." The planet they are on is Krieg, hence "Departure". The planet the ships are arriving at in the end is Vraks. The reason the Death Korps was sent was that the Imperial high command in the sector knew that the planet had vast bastions, enormous amounts of weapons, and excessive amounts of ammunition due to it being what's called an Armory World. As such, high casualties and an excessive slog of war were expected, so they sent the Death Korps, a group that is well known for its siege tactics and "victory whatever the cost" culture. The Cadians are the ones who lost their home planet during the 13th Black Crusade. A *very* large space station was driven into the core of the planet, breaking it apart. The Cadians are now more of a culture and are considered a fleet-based Guard unit where they recruit from many worlds. The Death Korps of Krieg live underground and have a fully formed government in their underground hive cities. The surface is an unlivable wasteland where live-fire training takes place. This is because Krieg experienced its own revolt by a greedy government, and the loyalists hid in bunkers after using nuclear weapons to destroy the planet. The Imperium doesn't like to full-on destroy planets unless they absolutely have to. That being said, each planet has a classification and as such has a certain worth attributed to it. The less worth a planet has, and the harder the fight is to retake it, the more likely it is to be destroyed. But again, the Imperium generally doesn't like to do that unless they really, really have to, because they understand that places can be rebuilt and planets are a finite resource as well as territory.
So the massive ship you saw is what is referred to as a bulk lander which as you stated is a mobile city with guns an engine and warp engines other than that they are there to simply dump as much firepower and as many troops, vehicles and equipment as humanly possible and if I recall a single bulk lander can hold up to at least one or two entire regiments as well as their supporting elements ie food, supplies, spare parts, and anything else they can find a locker to shove as much as they can inside of it, other than that their only purpose is again to dump as many troops as possible onto a planet and kill anything that poses a threat
there are several Imperial guards who lost their homes, but the big one is Cadia, and the Cadians are the poster boy's of the Imperial guard that's probably why the idea of losing a home planet planet seems like a big thing for the Guard right now. The Kreig did not lose their planet, but they nuked their planet to the ground by the loyalists to prevent the original Kreig leadership from breaking away from the Imperium. So technically they did lose their planet as in that their planet is a desolate wasteland now.
That makes a lot of sense, I remember there was a whole thing about how the Kreig planet was somehow or another left uninhabitable because of some conflict! But hang on, you say there was a faction of the leadership in Kreig that wanted to break away from the imperium of man? Why?
@@GMineo There's a good video by Arch on the Death Korps of Krieg's rebellion though I've heard that a lot of people don't like Arch as a youtuber. But yes Krieg's leadership attempted to rebel just like Vraks did due to the tithe to the imperium being "unjust" as such resources would be better spent on their own world instead of the Imperium.(Greed basically) The Imperium had no forces to send immediately as the rebellion essentially came out of no where. The loyalists(to the Imperium) as they could not hold against the rest of the planet without reinforcements, nuked their own planet after sealing themselves inside their hive fortifications. obviously Arch does much better summarizing and deals with the aftermath and I'd highly recommend the video :) It is however a very long one(hour+)
Lasguns or to be exact the Lucius pattern lasgun where it trades firepower for number of shot being that the gun hits as hard as a sniper rifle but in exchange only has twenty five shots, however a korpsman typically takes up to three power packs each which can be recharged at a armory or even from a simple charger.
"Bad situation that could have been prevented' sounds like a common through line in the 40 universe so far lol Thank you for the rec! We'll have to check it out, there's so much history and intricacy, we love it!
Imagine having a gun which can be plugged into say a power socket and half an hour later you get a thousand rounds of ammo. That’s why the guard love the lasgun where yes more powerful weapons do exist however they lack the ability to mass produce them unlike a lasgun which can be produce (depending on the world, so for example a forge world, over ninety trillion lasguns in a single day) and whilst that may sound like a lot it actually isn’t considering that you have to arm, train and equipment over a million soldiers a day all the while ensuring that current regiments get the much needed reinforcements as well as replacements, where a single regiment of up to ten thousand soldiers might be expected to lose half of their entire ten thousand strong regiment in a single engagement, and so not only does the home world have to provide more regiments but also train, arm and equip over five thousand troops in a day and that’s not excluding constant battle losses where it might be say, one thousand on one day, two hundred the next and then the entire regiment the following week. And again the lasgun is simple to make and stupidly simple to operate where a five year old can use one it’s basically a glorified laser pointer where all you’re expected to do is, clean the focusing lenses, mumble a few prayers and make sure that your power pack is fully charged and that’s it, the thing is as heavy as a modern day rifle, the magazine of its a type four holds anything up to a thousand rounds, type seven if I recall holds up to two thousand rounds and every soldier usually Carrie’s three or four magazines, giving them a grand total of four thousand rounds of ammunition which again can be reused via a charger at an armory or in the back of a chimera so essentially a guard regiment basically has unlimited ammunition and the only time when a regiment is having ammunition problems is when they can no longer recharge their power packs or after being recharged for the umpteenth time drains the battery, other than that all that needs replacing on the gun is the focusing crystal and focusing lenses which can be done via a tech priest, and again if you had a crate of say ten magazines each holding thirty rounds you’ve a crate of magazines worth three hundred rounds of ammo vs a box of ten power packs each with a thousand rounds of ammo gives you ten thousand rounds of reusable ammunition and again if needed you can borrow a few off a dead friend or if in a serious pinch place it in a campfire and it’ll recharge it but would give you less ammunition and is more likely to stop working after that.
Other comments have said this but Krieg wasn’t ‘lost’ completely. In their history the governor of Krieg rebelled against the imperium and a massive civil war was fought. The imperial loyalists detonated nuclear weapons at the end of the war and turned the planet into an inhospitable wasteland, declaring that if the emperor could not have krieg, nobody would. Even after a nuclear apocalypse the war continued, and the loyalists eventually won and returned krieg to the imperium. But the people of krieg had become fanatical over the treachery of their world, and as krieg was not fit for anything else anymore the entire planet became part of the imperial war machine. All the planet does is churn out regiments of soldiers. Fearless and obedient, whose only goal in life is to die in the emperors service so they can be forgiven for the sins of their ancestors (it is also rumoured they use cloning to keep producing men and women for the death korps)
No they nuked their planet fall out style, as for vrak or to be more accurate vrak prime was what is known as an armory world which is basically a planet sized vault or supply depot where it has everything and I mean everything from guns, to tanks, to uniforms, to armor, to even food, anything and everything you would need to fully equip an entire regiment. Now you might ask (what’s the point in stockpiling all of that equipment?) And the simple answer is because why the hell not? If say a war in the sector goes horribly wrong where an entire armada just gets wiped clean, vrak or armory worlds are repositories for supplies if whenever needed for example if a world is getting eaten by tyranids and the closest planet is over a year away from the next cycle for reinforcements or supplies rather than wait for a year, a few cargo ships flies over to vrak, picks up the shopping and brings them back, also armory worlds provide great staging posts, for say last stands or points of resistance where if the entire sector is lost or near to losing, any remaining forces would be pulled back, sent to vrak, rearmed and re equipped along with the local population since not only is it just some planet sized shipping container but is also a planet sized fortress, where is ant invading forces were to try and land in the main defenses would instantly get shot out of the sky by local aircraft, surface to air and surface to orbit weapon platforms as well as an entire contingent of over armed and overly equipped troops who have enough ammunition to last a thousand years and enough equipment where they could simply use them as glorified ammunition for a massive trebuchet, and if the unfortunate attacker was to invade from the outside, they’ll have to overcome, mile long and mile deep mine fields, (imagine a mine filed the size and scale of a city surrounding a city, over lapping fields of fire, bunker networks, extended trench lines as well as mile deep barbed wire fields, machine gun posts, as well as pre sighted artillery which would be akin to playing battle ships however your opponent can more or less see your side of the board, an orbital dockyard which would allow for outside reinforcements, massive city to deal with where every building has an anti aircraft emplacement on it and at every crossroad is a machine gun nest, where it would be like shooting a machine gun down a back alley, all the while orbital defenses rains death on the enemy lines
Krieg is kameno but far far far far far larger and funnily enough the clone wars for all its glory wasn’t actually that big since if I remember only 6.2 million clones throughout the entire clone wars FOR A GALACTIC SCALE WAR, vs the Krieg which raise a regiment of up to (depending on their specialty, ie a infantry, tank and artillery regiment whereas a siege regiment unlike the others consist of multiple different types of regiments unlike any other planet in the entire imperium outside of a very very very few and very rare exceptions, but only the death korps are allowed to utilize combined arms vs say cadia which can only produce infantry, tank and artillery regiments where they all have their own command systems and networks but has no authority over each other for example a tank commander cannot order a squad of infantrymen regardless of how low they may be eg a private to say attack a bunker without any other orders, vs the Krieg who are not bound by this limitation, but back to numbers a single Krieg siege regiment consists entirely of up to sixteen million troops
Vraks wasnt desolated; the fighting was “relatively” localized. It he conflict as more about making a point to would-be traitors then saving the planet with the caveat that the Imperium will usually fight for a planet designated as a “shrine world” out of religious principal, or at the very least, a sense of pride.
millions dead, thousands wounded, ah another victory (imperial guard commissar quote)
They don’t normally just go around and exterminatus every planet, just when a planet is completely lost. For Vraks this was a mere rebellion and the planet had VAST armories full of weapons and ammunition that the Imperium wanted to reclaim.
That makes sense! When we first watched it we just saw the planet as almost desolate LOL but now we can see why they wanted to take Vraks back
If you guys are asking why their underground. It's because their planet (Krieg), rebelled against the imperium in one point in the 40k timeline. Cause great battles to be fought in the surface, and in a last-ditch effort to drive the loyalist in the planet, the Kriegmen/women launch a nuke like missile. Which made the surface of the planet inhabitable to any life.
And if your are asking the reason how the Krieg even mange to create suck vast army, it's believe that they use clones in order to keep the numbers running. Also in a family the first child must enter service in the military once they know how to aim (even it means the child is somewhere in the age of 5-6).
Also the reason why their praying, it's because they see the emperor of mankind as a god (even he was the one who destroyed religions on Terra), and they ask for his forgiveness once they die in battle
And the weapons you guys saw is called a lasgun/lasrifle (a.k.a the flashlight) and it is a Lucius pattern lasgun.
Also the fleet was consisting of a starfort and I believe destroyers, cruisers, battleships and carriers
There is actually another theory in being able to field vast army, where instead of cloning, each Kreig male and female before deployment were expected to donate their sperm and eggs to be incubated artificially in a artificial wombs which purifies the radiation issues and increase surivival rates. Personally I like this theory more since this makes it even more tragic and grim compare to the clone theory. But then again I personally don't think much of clones as real people to begin with.
@@Methyll I think in the new Krieg book it is stated that they are clones or that they use the technology I can’t tell you myself see that I haven’t reed it so I can be there for wrong on that
Krieg was once a prosperous Hive World (basically a planet covered in mountain-sized cities home to tens of billions of people), under the rule of a council of rich autocrats. For a time, this was all well and good, until the autocrats grew resentful of rule and laws from distant Terra and rebelled, declaring the planet independent and renouncing the worship of the God-Emperor. A massive civil war ensued between the autocrats and the loyalist Imperial forces. At one point, a Krieg colonel named Jurten, the only officer of any significant rank left on Krieg and in the defense of Hive Ferrograd, unleashed what would become known as "The Purging", firing hundreds of nuclear missiles into the sky and on the surface, killing all non-human life on the planet and rendering it a barren rock. The civil war would continue for another 500 years as the loyalists took back their planet and dedicated themselves to giving soldiers to the Imperium and sending them off to sacrifice themselves in the most brutal battles imaginable as penance for Krieg's rebellion.
My question is why would Jurten want to do that? Was that the only logical solution?
@@GMineo Terra and local Segmentum command had already declared Krieg practically lost and refused to send reinforcements, considering the Imperial forces required to relieve a well-fortified Hive World like Krieg better spent on other fronts. Krieg's loyalist forces were dwindling and many of the hives had already been lost. Jurten was under strict orders to not let Krieg fall but also painfully aware that time was running out. It was the only option he had left, declaring that either the Emperor would have Krieg or no one would.
There is ration bars in 40k that are called Corpsestarch, so take that how you will with how humans deal with their dead in The Imperium.
Woof, that's terrible lol but to be fair, there's plenty of corpses to go around in the 40k Universe....
Having a part of one's body preserved and turned in to room decorations (e.g. skull) is actually a great honor compared to the alternative.
The inscription on the wall, that the guy is standing in front of, is in High Gothic (Latin). It's the core line belonging to the Death Korps "Litany of Sacrifice". Basically the idea that they hold sacred. It says "In life, war. In death, peace. In life, shame. In death, atonement."
The planet they are on is Krieg, hence "Departure". The planet the ships are arriving at in the end is Vraks.
The reason the Death Korps was sent was that the Imperial high command in the sector knew that the planet had vast bastions, enormous amounts of weapons, and excessive amounts of ammunition due to it being what's called an Armory World. As such, high casualties and an excessive slog of war were expected, so they sent the Death Korps, a group that is well known for its siege tactics and "victory whatever the cost" culture.
The Cadians are the ones who lost their home planet during the 13th Black Crusade. A *very* large space station was driven into the core of the planet, breaking it apart. The Cadians are now more of a culture and are considered a fleet-based Guard unit where they recruit from many worlds.
The Death Korps of Krieg live underground and have a fully formed government in their underground hive cities. The surface is an unlivable wasteland where live-fire training takes place. This is because Krieg experienced its own revolt by a greedy government, and the loyalists hid in bunkers after using nuclear weapons to destroy the planet.
The Imperium doesn't like to full-on destroy planets unless they absolutely have to. That being said, each planet has a classification and as such has a certain worth attributed to it. The less worth a planet has, and the harder the fight is to retake it, the more likely it is to be destroyed. But again, the Imperium generally doesn't like to do that unless they really, really have to, because they understand that places can be rebuilt and planets are a finite resource as well as territory.
you asked if they are the ones who have lost their world , the ones you mean are the Cadians
So the massive ship you saw is what is referred to as a bulk lander which as you stated is a mobile city with guns an engine and warp engines other than that they are there to simply dump as much firepower and as many troops, vehicles and equipment as humanly possible and if I recall a single bulk lander can hold up to at least one or two entire regiments as well as their supporting elements ie food, supplies, spare parts, and anything else they can find a locker to shove as much as they can inside of it, other than that their only purpose is again to dump as many troops as possible onto a planet and kill anything that poses a threat
there are several Imperial guards who lost their homes, but the big one is Cadia, and the Cadians are the poster boy's of the Imperial guard that's probably why the idea of losing a home planet planet seems like a big thing for the Guard right now. The Kreig did not lose their planet, but they nuked their planet to the ground by the loyalists to prevent the original Kreig leadership from breaking away from the Imperium. So technically they did lose their planet as in that their planet is a desolate wasteland now.
That makes a lot of sense, I remember there was a whole thing about how the Kreig planet was somehow or another left uninhabitable because of some conflict!
But hang on, you say there was a faction of the leadership in Kreig that wanted to break away from the imperium of man? Why?
@@GMineo There's a good video by Arch on the Death Korps of Krieg's rebellion though I've heard that a lot of people don't like Arch as a youtuber.
But yes Krieg's leadership attempted to rebel just like Vraks did due to the tithe to the imperium being "unjust" as such resources would be better spent on their own world instead of the Imperium.(Greed basically) The Imperium had no forces to send immediately as the rebellion essentially came out of no where. The loyalists(to the Imperium) as they could not hold against the rest of the planet without reinforcements, nuked their own planet after sealing themselves inside their hive fortifications.
obviously Arch does much better summarizing and deals with the aftermath and I'd highly recommend the video :) It is however a very long one(hour+)
"Where do they all get buried?"
On the battlefield.
Krieg is still there. Cadia blew up after Abadon threw a Blackstone Fortress into it. Which subsequently ripped the galaxy in half.
the planet of Krieg was not lost.
well is being invaded by orks and is a horrible nuclear wasteland.
but it's still holding the line✊
That makes sense! Thank you for clarifying!
Old video yes I know, but to answer your question on what happens to the dead....Corpse starch is a form of Imperial Ration.
Lasguns or to be exact the Lucius pattern lasgun where it trades firepower for number of shot being that the gun hits as hard as a sniper rifle but in exchange only has twenty five shots, however a korpsman typically takes up to three power packs each which can be recharged at a armory or even from a simple charger.
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This might just be me imagining things but if I do remember two entire worlds went to war against each other over who had the biggest church
The Death Korps is more like the Sturmtruppen of World War 1, especially with their tactics.
You guys should check Oculus Imperia. He has a 5 part series breaking down everything. It really was a bad situation that was could've been prevented.
"Bad situation that could have been prevented' sounds like a common through line in the 40 universe so far lol
Thank you for the rec! We'll have to check it out, there's so much history and intricacy, we love it!
@@GMineo No problem guys. Enjoy the tale!
And that's just the first wave
RIGHT?!?! I think we mentioned in the video, but the sheer SCALE of how much life is thrown around in the 40k universe is just insane
Imagine having a gun which can be plugged into say a power socket and half an hour later you get a thousand rounds of ammo. That’s why the guard love the lasgun where yes more powerful weapons do exist however they lack the ability to mass produce them unlike a lasgun which can be produce (depending on the world, so for example a forge world, over ninety trillion lasguns in a single day) and whilst that may sound like a lot it actually isn’t considering that you have to arm, train and equipment over a million soldiers a day all the while ensuring that current regiments get the much needed reinforcements as well as replacements, where a single regiment of up to ten thousand soldiers might be expected to lose half of their entire ten thousand strong regiment in a single engagement, and so not only does the home world have to provide more regiments but also train, arm and equip over five thousand troops in a day and that’s not excluding constant battle losses where it might be say, one thousand on one day, two hundred the next and then the entire regiment the following week. And again the lasgun is simple to make and stupidly simple to operate where a five year old can use one it’s basically a glorified laser pointer where all you’re expected to do is, clean the focusing lenses, mumble a few prayers and make sure that your power pack is fully charged and that’s it, the thing is as heavy as a modern day rifle, the magazine of its a type four holds anything up to a thousand rounds, type seven if I recall holds up to two thousand rounds and every soldier usually Carrie’s three or four magazines, giving them a grand total of four thousand rounds of ammunition which again can be reused via a charger at an armory or in the back of a chimera so essentially a guard regiment basically has unlimited ammunition and the only time when a regiment is having ammunition problems is when they can no longer recharge their power packs or after being recharged for the umpteenth time drains the battery, other than that all that needs replacing on the gun is the focusing crystal and focusing lenses which can be done via a tech priest, and again if you had a crate of say ten magazines each holding thirty rounds you’ve a crate of magazines worth three hundred rounds of ammo vs a box of ten power packs each with a thousand rounds of ammo gives you ten thousand rounds of reusable ammunition and again if needed you can borrow a few off a dead friend or if in a serious pinch place it in a campfire and it’ll recharge it but would give you less ammunition and is more likely to stop working after that.
Other comments have said this but Krieg wasn’t ‘lost’ completely. In their history the governor of Krieg rebelled against the imperium and a massive civil war was fought. The imperial loyalists detonated nuclear weapons at the end of the war and turned the planet into an inhospitable wasteland, declaring that if the emperor could not have krieg, nobody would.
Even after a nuclear apocalypse the war continued, and the loyalists eventually won and returned krieg to the imperium. But the people of krieg had become fanatical over the treachery of their world, and as krieg was not fit for anything else anymore the entire planet became part of the imperial war machine. All the planet does is churn out regiments of soldiers. Fearless and obedient, whose only goal in life is to die in the emperors service so they can be forgiven for the sins of their ancestors (it is also rumoured they use cloning to keep producing men and women for the death korps)
No they nuked their planet fall out style, as for vrak or to be more accurate vrak prime was what is known as an armory world which is basically a planet sized vault or supply depot where it has everything and I mean everything from guns, to tanks, to uniforms, to armor, to even food, anything and everything you would need to fully equip an entire regiment.
Now you might ask (what’s the point in stockpiling all of that equipment?)
And the simple answer is because why the hell not? If say a war in the sector goes horribly wrong where an entire armada just gets wiped clean, vrak or armory worlds are repositories for supplies if whenever needed for example if a world is getting eaten by tyranids and the closest planet is over a year away from the next cycle for reinforcements or supplies rather than wait for a year, a few cargo ships flies over to vrak, picks up the shopping and brings them back, also armory worlds provide great staging posts, for say last stands or points of resistance where if the entire sector is lost or near to losing, any remaining forces would be pulled back, sent to vrak, rearmed and re equipped along with the local population since not only is it just some planet sized shipping container but is also a planet sized fortress, where is ant invading forces were to try and land in the main defenses would instantly get shot out of the sky by local aircraft, surface to air and surface to orbit weapon platforms as well as an entire contingent of over armed and overly equipped troops who have enough ammunition to last a thousand years and enough equipment where they could simply use them as glorified ammunition for a massive trebuchet, and if the unfortunate attacker was to invade from the outside, they’ll have to overcome, mile long and mile deep mine fields, (imagine a mine filed the size and scale of a city surrounding a city, over lapping fields of fire, bunker networks, extended trench lines as well as mile deep barbed wire fields, machine gun posts, as well as pre sighted artillery which would be akin to playing battle ships however your opponent can more or less see your side of the board, an orbital dockyard which would allow for outside reinforcements, massive city to deal with where every building has an anti aircraft emplacement on it and at every crossroad is a machine gun nest, where it would be like shooting a machine gun down a back alley, all the while orbital defenses rains death on the enemy lines
If you are interest in learning about the Imperial Guard and its history I recommend reacting to Old Man Lore - The Imperial Guard by Old Man Reacts.
Haven't heard that one yet! We'll look into it!
Krieg is kameno but far far far far far larger and funnily enough the clone wars for all its glory wasn’t actually that big since if I remember only 6.2 million clones throughout the entire clone wars FOR A GALACTIC SCALE WAR, vs the Krieg which raise a regiment of up to (depending on their specialty, ie a infantry, tank and artillery regiment whereas a siege regiment unlike the others consist of multiple different types of regiments unlike any other planet in the entire imperium outside of a very very very few and very rare exceptions, but only the death korps are allowed to utilize combined arms vs say cadia which can only produce infantry, tank and artillery regiments where they all have their own command systems and networks but has no authority over each other for example a tank commander cannot order a squad of infantrymen regardless of how low they may be eg a private to say attack a bunker without any other orders, vs the Krieg who are not bound by this limitation, but back to numbers a single Krieg siege regiment consists entirely of up to sixteen million troops
These guys are snipers compared to the storm troopers.
IN LIFE WAR
IN DEATH PEACE
IN LIFE SHAME
IN DEATH ATONEMENT
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Krieg does not raise regiments
Krieg raises armies
I'm surprised you didn't compare them to WW1 soldiers
well this was a dull one lol.
I guess we have to make it up to you with something a little more entertaining 😉
Vraks wasnt desolated; the fighting was “relatively” localized. It he conflict as more about making a point to would-be traitors then saving the planet with the caveat that the Imperium will usually fight for a planet designated as a “shrine world” out of religious principal, or at the very least, a sense of pride.