Been hearing a lot of rumblings from normal people in the warhammer community they are tired of fascists worshipping the imperium of man in their community.
is it like a human supremacist group in the lore or something like the empire in Star Wars?
Been hearing a lot of rumblings from normal people in the warhammer community they are tired of fascists worshipping the imperium of man in their community.
is it like a human supremacist group in the lore or something like the empire in Star Wars?
another thing that nobody mentioned yet is that the imperium has the space marines who are the heavily-armoured genetically-modified superhuman special forces guys, and then the vaaaast majority of the army are the imperial guard who are mostly just conscripts with shitty guns who get sent in human wave style to die en masse
there are various themed imperial guard regiments that have distinctive uniforms and fighting styles of their planet. the most popular amongst warhammer nerds are the death korps of krieg, who resemble gas-masked wwi soldiers with a german-style helmet. purely coincidentally, they seem to be most commonly painted in feldgrau colour schemes
The Imperial guard are actually elite, well equipped troops iirc (for the most part), the cheaply armed cannon fodder are the Planetary Defense Armies. It's just the setting is so absurd that troops wearing magical nanotech flak vests that could stop a modern tank round and use guns that could pierce modern battleship armor may as well be conscripts with matchlocks.
So they're actually a hodge-podge of the WW-1 factions.
The trench coat that the DKoK wear is basically just a French M1915 trench coat in a different colour (the original being in Horizon Blue). Note, however, that the contrast lining of the coat is German. The collar is also different from the French coat. The gas mask is based on the the Small box respirator (British) introduced in 1916, but is made in leather. The helmet is a Stalhelm with alterations. It has a decorative crest much like the French Adrian Helmet. The Puttees are clearly inspired by the British WW1 Puttees. Note that by WW2 these were no longer used. The Backpack and Pouches seem to be German. The Bayonet is German. The Shovel is most similar to the US M1910. This is because the shovel is normally depicted with a cross handle, and the US were the only ones to use a shovel with one of these. And lastly their war tactics generally don't have any set style beyond WW-1 style warfare.
oh damn, schooled lol
i just see them on warhammer subreddits and shit with like "here are my death korps, they will never surrender but lay down their lives gladly for the emperor, the backstory of my company is they were betrayed in their last war by their cowardly moneygrubbing planetary commanders who made them retreat before the filthy orcs even though they were winning, and now they want to fight to restore the martial pride and honour of krieg, and secure the existence of their people and a future for krieg children, anyway here they are, i painted them in 'field grey' and theyre the 88th 'free corps' regiment, their logo is this cool symbol representing their home planets black sun"