Colonel Jurten, commander of the 83 rd Krieg Imperial Guard regiment, gathered to him all those still loyal to the Imperium, and struck back against the rebellion, choosing to unleash the horror of atomic bombardment upon those who had forsaken the Emperor. At that moment, the world was changed forever. In 433.M40, the once-loyal Imperial world of Krieg declared independence and renounced the glory of the God-Emperor. Death Korps troops excel at wars of attrition and defensive combat in particular. The Death Korps of Krieg is a siege specialist regiment of the Imperial Guard and the regiments raised on Krieg seek to repent for their former treachery against the Emperor by displaying a disturbing disregard for their own lives in combat.

After all those years of nuclear destruction and bitter trench warfare, Krieg was reduced to a scorched, radioactive husk of a world composed of dust and mud whose surviving people were forced to retreat into underground hive cities to survive the toxic planetary environment.

Krieg was the site of a rebellion against the Imperium of Man over 1,500 standard years ago in the 40 th Millennium and was bombarded with nuclear weapons followed by five hundred Terran years of grinding warfare to purge the heretical rebels. The Death Korps of Krieg is the name given to all of the Astra Militarum regiments that originate from the devastated, post-nuclear Death World of Krieg in the Segmentum Tempestus. In death, atonement.'- Final litany of the Litany of Sacrifice, recited by Krieg Korpsmen when entering battle

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