The Death Korps of Krieg - Why they never retreat? l Warhammer 40k Lore

[@vd00d]

Imagine being a comissar assigned to The Death Korps. Suddenly, you are the least fanatical member of your entire regiment and your job now is to try to keep your charges from gleefully dying for The Emperor, possibly with you in tow.

[@Nicmadis]

@FrankLemarin-df4sp Heresy.

[@Lobo-g4k]

I hear kriegsmen or warmen are such a belligerent bunch that they end up winding up other regiments not of their world only the marccarbian jannissary and the mordian guard are shown any respect

[@ForcedDoorsand1000hoors]

Lmaoo that’s actually crazy n funny. My my my… have the turn tables turned.

[@Dudeimdrew]

There is only one thing that could cripple the death core…. “I forgive you” - The God Emperor

[@richardgilliland7869]

❤

[@williamthehuntsman]

Are you kidding? That would give them even MORE reason to fight. They would even attempt to fight the chaos gods themselves if the emperor asked them of it. And they would either win or die trying

[@jjohnson796]

Having these stories posted on YT and just listening to the audio makes them feel like an old time radio show. Pretty cool!

[@kaidorade1317]

And a new Death Korps novel will soon be released!

[@weaviejeebies]

I wonder if the characters will be Sgt.Jurten and Cpl. Jurten teaming up with Lt. Jurten trying to take a crucial objective on the orders of Col. Jurten. 😉

[@angelocavar8610]

​@@weaviejeebiesya. This thing is so annoying 😂

[@leighz1962]

"The Death Korp were always SJWs fighting for rights and freedoms for disadvantaged minorities." -GW, probably

[@d1sregard662]

​​@@leighz1962"they are just fictional characters, what do you care if they are sjw or not?" -Some tourist that has never been 2 feet from a mini 😂

[@Aqueox]

Now with black woman Kommander Layva’nya Jurten!

[@ChristopherDwiggins]

The planet broke before the krieg!

[@jsgoh1]

Perfect timing and an interesting topic,thank you:)

[@lhcdrivernephi2837]

They do retreat, too many people get their lore from memes and not the books.

[@The_SDX]

I've always wondered how the Death Korps would perform against the Machines in The Matrix. Would humanity have had a Fighting chance?

[@jameselliott216]

😑Would the *MACHINES* have a fighting chance?

[@aurorajones8481]

mmmm That would be a facinating mash up. Anyone?

[@vampurhntrd]

The Korps have held their own against Necrons, the machines from the Matrix would be light work.

[@ethrboy]

@@vampurhntrd this is true

[@justinyu5892]

Would the Death Korps of Krieg be able to turn the tides against Terminators in the bleak future of the Terminator universe? And how successful would a terminator be if one is sent to terminate a young emperor of mankind? Or his parents (I know he had a childhood with a father and mother as well as an uncle)

[@JamesSmith-js6je]

For the ALGORITHM!

[@notme9816]

For the Algorithm!

[@thelordpickles4907]

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[@nunobarros3629]

Credits to SODAZ for the excellent animation art !!!!!!

[@Feitosix]

HERETIC: I SURRENDER! I SURRENDER! DKOK: THE FACK YOU ARE!

[@Dekarria]

Just like the brunswick troops irl (i the napolionic area) those brave man never retreat surrender or give mercy

[@ninjapirate47]

Love that they fight with shovels... pass it on... especially to bricky!

[@wodthehunter8145]

entrenching tools, eg shovels have been an important part of war since pre history.

[@michaelsebi]

Except they don’t. At least not as prominently as the fandom believes ! There’s not a single sentence in the lore that claims they use the shovel as their primary melee weapon. The bayonet is. The shovel is only used as a backup emergency weapon in all the canon we have, it’s just a meme otherwise.

[@STRIKR-dq7rj]

If you think about it, a shovel can be both a broad short spear, and an axe very easily

[@aurorajones8481]

Ill still level the field with my partical whips.

[@JackFrost008]

Dont need your damned commissars.

[@Lobo-g4k]

Does the korp have their version of a blitzkrieg ive only ever heard or seen it written that the kriegs are attritional forces there to bleed the enermy dry surely they are not so singular so black and white in matters of warfare

[@Lilith801-re9xl]

They are not some super German in space. The kriegs are bunch of collection of various European army during ww1. Stop comparing them to nazi Germany.

[@yourdad6902]

​@@Lilith801-re9xl who do you think most of the fans are they're nazi fans

[@Tempsforyears]

WW1 imperial German army weren't Nazis you dolt. they are named death korp of krieg krieg is war for German. So cry is free. ​@@Lilith801-re9xl

[@KondorDCS]

Also known as 40k Wehrmacht.

[@MrShadowofthewind]

Deutches heer, krieg is based on WW1 German army, wehrmacht is WW2.

[@Anaken12]

I would like to read a novel where one or more krieg soldiers had to mix with survivors of other units for a prolonged gorilla campaign. Kind of like a plot where everything has been overrun and there is now just a hodgepodge of survivors and civilians. That would be interesting to read about how characters may change after the fact and how they would go back to their units. Imagine if a female guardsmen for whatever reason had to spend significant time with the death core. How would that play in?😏

[@mako4134]

That happens in Deadmen Walking, written by Steve Lyons

[@AcoylteKraven82]

25:55- It’s unfortunate that GW didn’t feel the same about not abandoning them!?! You know, since they have never made any official models with DKOK on horses!!!

[@alagass6466]

Gonna die sooner or later anyway, why not sooner?

[@jameselliott216]

Why the Death Corps never retreat? 🤣 Same reason I can't fly simply by thinking happy thoughts! *IMPOSSIBLE!*

[@justaneditygangstar]

Happy 4th 🦅🇺🇸

[@wildchild1823]

Because the original rebellion in Krieg. The shame.. and now.. the clones.

[@gradualdecay1040]

Jurten was a lunatic!

[@thedudeofthenorth]

And a Hero...godda be a bit crazy to beat those odds

[@Gabryal77]

This comment right here Commissar

[@Ulani101]

But a victorius lunatic. He knew what needed to be done, and did it, even knowing the cost.

[@marianasteyer3911]

They style remembers me WW1 German Forces mixed with WW2 German SS Uniforms.

[@galendetta2334]

Their over coat is from the French ww1 uniform

[@timworkman7738]

17:25 is my PFP lol

[@Acolyte_of_Cthulhu]

But they do in dead men walking.

[@nuclearx0id]

Your voice sounds exactly like Asmonds editor, cool voice tho.

[@Eleonora_16p]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@8darktraveler8]

Traitors doing traitorous shit Kriegs Loyalists: You think this is crazy, watch this!

[@mykelengieza7057]

ALGORITHM

[@nachtmacher6237]

😊

[@fatcoyote2]

The Death Korps do retreat. They do break morale and hoof it. In the series of books wherein the Krieg were fleshed out, they break and run many times.

[@Lilith801-re9xl]

Yeah and they even killed their own commissar to run and retreat. Lol people just get so absorbed into the meme.

[@yourdad6902]

​@@Lilith801-re9xl yeah they just dickride

[@4englishlies875]

🎉😮

[@ashifabedin]

coz they are panzer elit

[@Lilith801-re9xl]

But they did retreat and suffer mass routing and even killed their own commissar to run away from battles. This happened during the siege of varkus.

[@Krulltårta]

I love that even the nazis are included in 40k.

[@briansedlacek1963]

Prussian Germany 🤓😅

[@Krulltårta]

@@briansedlacek1963 yeah your right,it fits much better.

[@thecrusader1673]

Don't forget the LGBT community is also included through chaos.

[@SCP-001DatabaseAdministrator]

Zim-zur-it

[@padrescout]

They’re French. Google French WW1 Legionaire. Shits even the same color. Nazis are much more “I’m a 16 year old shitposter” though, so you know… warhammer community will always have plenty of edgelords screaming that.