Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Kill Team: Veteran Guardsmen

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There are 6 sprues in total in this box: 1 for the Combat Gauges and Kill Team Barricades, 4 for the Kill Teams themselves, and 1 for the Ork scenery. 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. Siege of Vraks (813-830.M41) - The Siege of Vraks was an Imperial military campaign fought over the course of 17 standard years to retake the Imperial Armoury World of Vraks Prime from the heretical forces of Chaos led by the Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan. Vraks was besieged by the forces of the Imperium of Man in 813.M41 by the 88th Siege Army, which was composed exclusively of Death Korps of Krieg regiments. The Krieg Guardsmen acquitted themselves well, fighting in many major engagements throughout the entirety of the campaign. At the conclusion of what became a 17-year-long campaign of attrition that required the deployment of 34 regiments of the Astra Militarum to re-take the planet for the Emperor of Mankind in 830.M41, 14 million Imperial Guardsmen had been slain and Vraks Prime's entire original population of 8 million souls had been consumed in the violence or exterminated after they fell to the corruption of Chaos. The world was then declared Perdita by the Inquisition. However, this isn’t so easy to do with the Kill Team Starter Set. Whilst all the miniatures in the box are available in their own individual kits, a lot of the value of this box lies in the other stuff that comes with it to help you actually play the game, such as the rules books and the combat gauges. The Death Korps of Krieg Veteran Guardsmen are a really nice kit. Not too difficult to build in spite of being made up of several small components, and awash with extra pouches, grenades and, of course, their archetypical shovels, they’re an expressive and unique bunch of miniatures, overflowing with character and individuality. Ork Kommandos

st Heavy Tank Company - The Death Korps 1 st Heavy Tank Company, known as the "Emperor's Loyal Shield," fought in the Cleansing of Radnar. th Siege Artillery Regiment - The Death Korps 497 th Siege Artillery Regiment was assigned to the 11 th Assault Korps, 88 th Siege Army in 812.M41, during the infamous campaign known as the Siege of Vraks. The 497 th remained with the 11 th Assault Korps throughout the fighting on Vraks and was finally withdrawn when the enemy forces occupying the planet were neutralised in 830.M41.It took another 500 years for the Imperium to notice that anyone had survived – and though Krieg is now a toxic death world, at least its Death Korps get to wear those cool gas masks.

As ever, the artwork on the box is outstanding. Depicting an intrepid team of retail workers dealing with some average Saturday customers the Death Korps of Krieg facing off against the rampaging Ork Kommandos, the box cover sets the tone for Kill Team: cramped, claustrophobic, and brutal. As of writing this part of the review (starting at about 12:34 on 29/01/2021), I’m looking at my schedule over the next few days and I’m afraid I have to admit I’m not going to have time to do an in-depth playtest of the Kill Team Starter Set like I normally would when reviewing a GW Starter Set. Boo.Trained amongst the irradiated ruins of long-dead cities, equipped for the most hostile environments, and raised on sermons of self-sacrifice and penitence, the Krieg regiments have commonly been deployed -- often at their own request -- to some of the deadliest war zones, from the toxic ash wastes that surround many hive cities, to brutal wars of attrition and years-long sieges.

As it stands today, Krieg is a true War World: it has no industry or agriculture to offer to the Emperor, only its people -- giving up its descendants to fight in the Astra Militarum. Krieg's tithes are the maximum for the planet's population, raising tens of regiments every standard year where a comparably-sized world might be expected to tithe one regiment every solar decade. In the wake of Krieg's history, its troops are consumed with a fervent cultural need to find atonement, and their cult of sacrifice has been shaped by an even greater disregard for the lives of individual soldiers than that espoused by most other Militarum Regimentos. Bred in underground facilities geared only for war, the regiments of Krieg take harsh training to extremes and their unfeeling attitude makes them ideal for siege and trench warfare. In battle, the sheer resilience and indefatigability of the Death Korps' inexhaustible soldiery grinds down their enemies, while their commanders merely send in the next wave, already firing. rd Mechanised Regiment - The Death Korps 23 rd Mechanised Regiment took part in the Cleansing of Radnar Hive. Infantry regiments, mechanised infantry and armoured regiments are all known, but by far the most common use of Krieg's manpower is as siege regiments. The Death Korps' philosophy of total war reaches its ultimate expression within these regiments. Krieg regiments operate under the standard and recognisable Astra Militarum command structure laid down by the Departmento Munitorum, with some minor local variation in insignia and designation, one example being that infantry sergeants are known by the title "watchmaster," whilst sergeants of the Death Rider companies are known as "ridemasters."With Kill Team getting so much attention at the moment following the release of its new edition last year, the provision of a starter set to get the uninitiated into the game was, perhaps, something of an inevitability.