This 90 min video was a heavy haul for me at the end of this year, but I hope that you will enjoy what I guess is Part one for the Death Korps. There's still some more stuff I want to try and get done before the actual end of the year, BIG THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THIS YEAR.
To quote our humble servant "The emperor, should he ever awaken from his throne, could destroy the unbreakable Death Korps with one single sentence..... 'I forgive you" Hearing that still gives me chills. The sad irony and tragedy that is the Death Korps of Krieg.
This stark, unforgiving beauty. The ostensibly necessary horror that is mankind. This is what no other series has been able to capture. I am ... at a loss for words.
Aren't Paradise worlds often even without a PDF/have a very strongly worded _request_ to keep filthy dumb IG Scum off their soil unless the sky is literally falling? But yes. Triply so cause they'd be banned from drills completely.
@@d.d.h6749 Its not weird, most people, usually men have it that way. We get less depressed when we see a shitty place, because then we can think: "Well, at least im not living in THAT universe" as opposite to "Damn i wish i lived there"
check out Dead Men Walking, its good. < I actually meant this as a reply for another poster lol but the comments moved up. I STAND BY MY RECOMMENDATION
I am reminded of the Guard novel Dead Men Walking. An officer character is captured by chance by a few civilians and they plant themselves in front of a column of Kreigsmen. Officer shouts at them to halt while the kidnappers scream demands. Then they are all gunned down. And as the officer lie there dying, he feels a quartermaster retrieving the officers wargear and struggles to keep his sword.
Adeptus administratium clerk: “upon your reunification with the Imperium you will need to provide a single regiment. How many troops have you levied?” The leader of Krieg: “200,000 units ready, with a million more well on the way.”
lol or leader of Krieg: "All Ready" , Clerk: "im sorry what", leader of Krieg:" you shall have everyone and they will die gladly, women and children too"
That's wrong though. Kreigers aren't completely immune to fear just like how sisters of battle aren't completely incorruptible. At the Siege of Vrak, we've already seen the complete breakdown and routed of the 158th Regiment of the 12th Line. Remember in the end no matter how indoctrinated and brainwash they are. They're still just human in the end.
This is false. They feel fear and they don't accept death. But the honor duty before treason. As Japanese soldiers have done for thousands of years committing to suicide if they fail their Shogun or Emperor. They slice their guts and if they are lucky in some cases get their heads chopped off by a trusted ally. That's how the kriegsmen are. They aren't superhuman super soldiers. They value their lives but believe anything the emperor or officers command for them to do is for the better for the emperor and humanity. As Russians have always had strict 227 No Retreat orders in acts on penal battalions the same applies to the Star Wars clone troopers killing the Jedi from being ordered to do so. They are loyal to the cause it doesn't mean they aren't scared. And it shows very clearly as well how you have no idea what the kriegsmen are because you don't know their training style. Since you say before his first battle yet in krieg you're entire life is based on working in a factory until you're old enough to train and then you are hunted down and shot at and blown up by you're instructors to try and kill you incase you aren't strong enough or have the set skills to survive. You're first experience wearing a Krieg uniform is based on nearly dying. The statement you copied and pasted from Wikipedia on the kriegsmen is just false.
@@inquisitorsteele8397I can't agree with calling them brainwashed. They literally fight and die to keep humanity alive. Unlike real life places like America with their propaganda kriegsmen serve a actual purpose as all guardsmen do and they die fighting the galaxies greatest threats to humans. As well retreating and routing isn't a sign of humanity even though I agree they do have human emotion routing in general or retreating Is literally what all animals do in a fight with their pack mates to reorganize and regroup for another attack. It's not a fear system it's based around falling back to a better position to gain the upper hand when you're men are split too far or can't seem to communicate you fall back regroup count your numbers and send another charge in after giving you're men a second to breathe. Officers in world war 1, world war 2 German officers, 18th 17th 16th even 2nd century officers would always send their men out of their trenches and dug in positions in attack formations then fall back after small skirmish battles to reorganize regroup and weaken the enemy. The Germans in world war 2 organized this effectively and so did the Vietnamese in Vietnam. Causing massive allied and NATO casualties in both those wars. You hit the enemy give 'em a good slap on the cheek and run off and come from a different angle and they won't see it coming. That's even what Calvary was used for in every war up until world war 2. Flanking the enemy then routing out then pushing in again when they're enemy gets comfortable. It's an amazing strategic tactic that we've used forever as wolves do. As well as lions. And more. The Kriegsman in most cases is just doing the most beneficial thing no matter how humane it seems it's actually not. Like killing wounded soldiers isn't something they do to put them out of their misery they just do it to ensure they don't take prisoners and don't get shot in the back. They have no mercy and that stems from teachings at a young age how they don't need to worry about hurting another persons feelings. Real children are taught don't hit someone kriegs children are taught kill each other for a piece of bread. There's a big psychological difference to consider between real people and this 41st millennium soldiering in factual evidence provided by 19th century warfare and 18th century you can see men used line formations in battle they'd literally stand there and March into hails of bullets as men all around them that they would eat and laugh with daily would be slaughtered like nothing and they'd keep marching and prepare to fire their weapons and shoot the enemy while knowing they could be next to be hit by hundreds of musket balls. So even shown back then men ages 20 to 25 equipped for the conscription or draft to Americans would be trained to be very easily able to take orders. So kriegsmen aren't even far from reality yes they have human emotion. But they have extreme restraint and most of their humanity such as sadness and regret is out of the question not there. They don't feel mercy for killing others or doing what they think is right which by modern psychological terms is considered a psychopath. but that's all soldiers in all history ever to exist by modern logic. So yes they are men who have feelings they are human and they do know what they are doing but they come from a different planet a different way of life and a completely different way of survival then we have as modern day humans. So No I'd say these men aren't brainwashed they are simply trained differently and brought up in a different way and if that's called brainwashed it means we all are. As I said they only route not as fear sets in but so they can regroup reorganize and prepare to attack the enemy in skirmish combat.
@@GhilieDawg “As the artillery fire hammered down it caused the utter collapse of the 158th regiment's attack in sector 50-45. The Commissars amongst the retreating assault squads demanded that the men stand firm and push on, summarily executing the first men to take any steps backwards. In return, several Commissars were shot out of hand by their own side as the shredded assault companies scurried back to the safety of their own trenches. At the parapet the first wave collided with the second wave as they moved forwards to begin their advance. Fighting broke out as the officers of the second wave tried to force passage forwards. After only a couple hours the 158th regiment's attack had disintegrated into shambles. For the regiment's abject failure, the colonel and his staff would be arrested and eventually executed. The regiment was then disbanded by the 88th Siege Army's commissars. All the survivors would be sentenced to serve amongst the Penal Legions.” That's hardly what I would call well retreated, they're literally fled in disgraceful manner and murder thier own comrades-in-arm to get away to safety. I'm say that they're human in the end because it was common perception that Kreigers are more like fearless war machines without any trace of emotion rather than human which isn't entirely correct.
Turns out that bloody trench warfare isn't such a relic of the past these days... It's just the fallback whenever the armored vehicles get too shot up. We have to look at 40k through a new lens.
Man, I’ve had one hard year mentally… But without going to deep I just want you to know, these videos saved my life. Listening to these whilst in bed has saved me from my thoughts and helped my mind to find peace. Now I’m back to my old self, I now find them more enjoyable… instead of using them as a simple sleep aid, I now look listen to them from start to finish. Much respect my friend, brilliant content
Very humbling mate and glad to hear this. I have been there in the past, finding content to focus on is a big big help, glad these could do it for you.
My hypothesis is that the Korpsmen are definitely humanborn, but the conditions of the Krieg population leave them doomed to crippling mutation and frequent womb death, resulting in the necessitation of the Vitae Wombs. They aren't cloned directly, so much as they are artificially infused with stable DNA of the late Colonel. This fills in the damaged parts of the genetic structure and instills the resulting Korpsman with the steady calm of Jurten, but the Korpsmen's own innate noticing that they are effectively missing part of their soul (the part lost to mutation, expunged and substituted with the Vitae Womb's generation processes) leads to them being suicidally aggressive. Were it not for Jurten's devotion pushing them to a cause, they would be savage bastards who turned on humans the moment they had the chance to.
Imho they are no longer pure humans. Due to the radiation providing more mutations and their war providing selection they had moved past original humans. They adapted to the toxic enviroment, they adapted to neverending artilery showers. They see themselves as traitors to the humanity and hate themselves. They hope to earn their place by the emperor by sacrifice. They want to die for Him.
@@The_ZeroLine Planetary culture. Those uniforms aren't new; the planet's infantry wore that for a long time before the Imperium's return. They didn't adopt a Nazi insignia at all.
Can we petition to get Luetin a cameo in the 40k series in development with Henry Cavil? I can totally see hearing Luetin's voice over a vox-caster as some Imperial Admiral or General.
Not Admiral or General... but a Priest or Zealot .. calling out to those around him to pray for to the Emperor. Or someone who explains history of the Warhammer World in background Informations while watching the Series ^^
Oh man I usually never post comments on UA-cam but I've been struggling for a year with depression, anxiety and insomnia, and I cannot stress enough how helpful your videos have been to help me sleep. I don't play tabletop and know Warhammer through the fantasy universe, but with Darktide's release I finally delved into the 40K Grimdark and I must say you offer such a great content among other UA-camrs that I just fell in love with your channel. What I want to say is thank you for all this work you put in, thank you for the precision and clarity with which you engage on your subjects. Have a wonderful Christmas and happy New year, Love from France, Ronan.
@@Luetin09 you know what helps more when you get real down is the small things, and for me it was a double positive effect, it helped me sleep, but it also quenches my thirst for knowledge
@Luetin09 I have to agree , I know you must hear this alot , but as a person who's always been a troubled sleeper , getting my mind to calm enough to fall asleep, ever since I discovered your videos , iv discovered so much about a new universe and had much better sleeps
Clones are like overalls for demons in 40k which is why the emps was against it, but the korps members go without showing their face and not holding a name. Which seems a great way to avoid the warp beasts for some reason. It was mentioned in other works. total guess
names hold power in 40k its why (from what ive seen) calling a demon by its real name will have one of two effets, it will be either somewhat cautious...or fly into a berserk fury that would make horus look like a kitten
I went on a long road trip to visit family 17 hrs drive one way and back returning. These video series, including at least a dozen videos there and back has been a wonderful companion all the way on the trip. Listened to this video, the entire Emperor of Man, Inquisition series, Gregor, The Warp and several others. So much lore I absorbed listening the entire way at 70+ mph and it kept my mind awake with interest all the way. Man, i so much enjoyed these vids with interest one after the other and I never got one but bored at all. Just a fantastic job with these vids!
So very excited to see this latest opus, Luetin, the Emperor’s own Keeper of Lore! Thank you for your sacrifice of time, your devotion to the source material and your desire to share such expertise and obvious passion with all of us. The Emperor protects!
The theory on how they churn out so many soldiers is always a fun topic, not because its a good thing but mainly because of the mystery. With how effective the Death Korps is I would imagine that the womb things are completely synthetic. One or several hundred thousand unfortunate souls turned into... unlucky servitors... Is a set of hands that arent making weapons or turning a wrench. Always an absolute pleasure to listen to these. Hard to believe you were a Squad or general FPS channel once upon a time LOL
A hand turning a wrench is s womb not optimally sustained for the creation of superior clone soldiers. Other worlds can turn wrenches. No place but Krieg produces Kriegsmen
I think my favorite portrayal of the Kriegsman is from a meme where 2 of them are talking about the enemies being dead and that they'll be dead soon too but both are ecstatic about dying.
@@zawarudo1041space marine:"we cannot afford 40 casualty". Corpsmen:"40k death, damn that's bad but we can go on". Kriegs:"40k death, lucky bastards I am still here"
I finally listened to First and Only recently and I’m ADDICTED to the Guard now, planning to get the Gaunts Ghosts omnibuses to finish the story. One of my favorite 40k books I’ve ever experienced.
Sounds to me like the reason Greel really wanted the Kreigsman to be clones of Jurten was that he saw Jurten as one hell of a weapon in human form. His efficiency and logical thinking was very machine-like and probably highly valuable to Greel in that regard. Greel likely saw him as an extremely valuable asset to maintain.
I would think that the Kriegsman are not quite identical clones, just clones using Yutin's DNA similar to the Votann. So all of the Kriegsman would look "related", but not identical.
There’s rumour that the Death Korps Of Krieg was allotted the the largest Tithe of the whole empire. One that was unsustainable for a planet. Designed for exterminate them for their heresy. The Population of Krieg then Doubled their imperial Tithe in the quest for forgiveness. The only way to do this is Krieg basically has 2 societies. The human society that works the factories and the clone society that are produced on a inhuman industrial scale. Who age at twice the rate of a normal human because they will die in their first battle within 5 years of birth. Before they have even stepped off their drop ship their replacement is already on its way. Their replacement is being spilled from the Vat of protein and starch. They are brainwashed from their first hours of birth to the point their are issued equipment still hot from the press and crammed on a transport to whichever hellscape they have been assigned. They’re not human whatever humanity was left from the end of the kreig civil war has been cloned out. They’re biological weapons in a gas mask. Who believe that their life is worth one foot 2 bolter rounds and corpse to keep the men behinds feet out of the knee deep mud on the battlefield. Churned up by the unending drone of and meat grinder of the Krieg artillery corps.
Well that isn´t exactly correct the Kin actually use multiple dna samples instead of one. They often modify new clones which explain why clones created from the same dna can look quite different. The novel Krieg all but confirms that the DK are just clones of Jurten. A Inquisitors apprentice at one point orders a trio of DK to unmask, something the DK were hesitant to do but after some pressure did. We never know what he saw but after that he was determint to get permission to go to Krieg himself to get some answers. He ends up critically injured shortly afterwards due to a Ork attack and is found by multiple DK but instead of helping him they do nothing but stare at him, seemingly waiting for him to expire.
I've heard the story and lore of the Death Korps of Krieg and with very notable channels covering it in their own way, I will always be willing to hear and see it again with Luetin09. No one is as detailed as you on the Warhammer 40k universe and you make my day everytime you do a new video.
It's only been 30mins since the upload, but I got a feeling this one's about to get millions of views in no time. Can't wait to get home and watch all of it. Maybe twice. May the god emperor bless you all
I know this video is over a year old, and so I assume this comment will never be read by anyone ever, but "uncertain Jurten" has GOT to be a Dr Seuss style children's book in the imperium: "It looked like curtains but Jurten felt certain the heretics were flirtin with a hurtin' "
Well, don’t forget callidus (I think? The crazy ones that are essentially just blenders on the battlefield) assassins. They’ve been shown to straight up beat space marines multiple times. Now, of course, they also are extremely unstable, so they aren’t anywhere near as good long-term. But short-term, they’re weirdly close to custodes in terms of sheer power. Wild
@@HippieInHeart don't remember much about them, though I think they had some high caliber guns and heavy armor. They were from a shrine world so extremely zealous as well
The Death Korps wield TWO weapons like no other sheer blinkered willpower and a shovel So basically the planet went from WW1 to WW2 on an infinite loop mixed with the events of every Fallout game
THREE weapons like no other - sheer blinkered willpower, a shovel, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Emperor... wait no FOUR weapons like no other, sheer blinkered willpower, a shovel, suicidal courage, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Emperor... ok wait no...
I can imagine Jurten in his last moments, looking up at his constant compatriot Greel approaching him with tubes for tissue samples, desperately trying to choke out his opposition to the techpriest's plan.
even more grimdark, harvesting his corpse later. serious decomposition takes a few days to get going,and dna lasts thousands of years. Greel would have plenty time to harvest the corpse of his friend for samples, especially with tech like stasis pods
Hey, Leutin, I just wanna say that your channel is my favorite one I've stumbled on while browsing the site. I got into 40k when I was 12, started collecting Necrons and CSM around when 3rd Edition came out and I've been hooked ever since. I used to spend hours reading and even just browsing the wikis clicking link after link soaking all of the weirdness in. Your channel brings me back to those days of endlessly immersing myself in 40k. If I were to ever make a YT channel, it'd have to be one like yours. I love your content. Thanks for sharing it, my man.
On the subject of the vat womb, a parallel I'd like to drawn is the one with dune. In dune one of the faction creates gholas, wich are artificial human, the gholas are created in axlotl tank. Those tank are as we learn pretty late in the series actual woman made into reproductive tank. Since 40k is drawing a lot of inspiration from dune, axlotl tank and vat womb always seemed close and pretty similar to me. And it does make it pretty dark too.
@@ordohereticus5530 from what I know of the daemonculaba, yes and no, they are similar, but the vibe is different, idk, one of the interesting part of gholas is that they have the memory of the person they've been cloned from, so it is not strictly speaking a newborn, but a reproduction of someone else/a dead (Wich for me links pretty well with the all I am jurten thing from the krieg Book). Daemonculaba are "just" reproductive factories. But both are close yes.
What a perfect time to drop this video, literally less than a day after I take an interest in the Kriegsmen. I'm very new in general to Warhammer and I'm hella thankful Luetin is making such quality stuff, thanks for all the hard work!
Ever since I found out about Death Korps of Krieg, I have been waiting for you to make a dedicated video about them. Thank you very much! I shall watch this video a dozen or so times in the next month, at least.
I like the clone idea, but once I stumbled across an idea that I like even more. The Vitae Wombs are first used to purify them of genetic mutations, and second, they are used to dramatically increase the rate of fraternal and identical twins in utero. So they are not all Jurten, just swarms of similar looking Brothers and sisters, although it's quite possible he's the "Y" DNA contributor in many cases like Gengis Khan. This also supports the idea that many of them are essentially child-soldiers because war is all they have ever known. I like this idea bc it sort of fits with the WW1/WW2 european cultural aesthetic, as well as the 30 Years war with the Protestants v. Catholics.
Oddly enough, it was the death korps that introduced me to WH40k. I was going through a Sabaton phase a few years back and found a video where someone played “Attack of the Dead Men” over an animation of the Death Korps of Krieg. That got me curious about WH40k and now here I am, spending hours listening to a deep dive into the Death Korps. 😂
All praise the Omnissiah! Luetin has blessed us with a truly wonderous gift of lore! In all seriousness Luetin you and Occulus are my go to's for 40k lore. The depth and passion you put into your videos are second to none.
Krieg is one of the things in the 40k Lore that anchor me as a fan. The stories I write in my head to pass the time if not star then at least prominently feature Kriegers (Plural of Krieg?) even along side Astartes, Sisters of Battle, and the Inquisition. I only hope one day that this part of the universe can be properly expanded upon in movies and games.
Kriegans. Kriegites. Kriegish. Kriegian. Kriegese. Kriegalian. Kriegican. Kriegonian. Lol the first choice seems best. Krieger is warrior in German so kriegan would seem to fit the faction name. Like how we don’t call English Anglicans, despite the similar root.
Except it's not German...... It's a broad mix from across the nation's that fought. The only distinctly German thing is the name. Puttees - British, adopted by the French, and only by late war with the Germans as they'd seen their usefulness from the Brits Jacket - french style pin-back (used by other nations but primarily France) French style rifle bayonets - German bayonets were much bigger and broader, almost like a machete on the rifle Gasmask - 100% British small box pattern, and nothing like the German one Helmets - mix of German stahlhelm and features of the French/Belgian Adrian.
In one Novel I read it talks of a commissar and the last surviving Kriegsman in a squad speaking. In it he convinces the boy to take off his helmet, and you see just that, that he is very young, barely out of his teens of at all. However, he also talks about seeing the underground bunkers where there are in fact women who look horrible and pale. They aren't trained to be soldiers, but their lives aren't much better since their sole purpose is to essentially to birth babies and look after them for only a couple years or so before they begin their training as deathkorps. The novel was called "Dead Men Walking" (I'd give it a 5/10 it started off so good and different but eventually turned into a 40k book). At any rate, he made no mention of vitae wombs that I remember specifically, and this doesn't actually contradict the whole cloning thing since they could be in some way artificially inseminated. On the other hand I had read a short story that was -retarded- regarding training on the home world of krieg where as part of the final stage of training the Death Korps of Krieg would engage in an actual battle against somehow genetically impure/weak rejected recruits. In this stupid and pointless fight where valuable material and manpower are wasted so the exported Korps can technically have fought a battle, it was revealed a genestealer made it to the planet... somehow, and injected its xeno-spunk into one of the rejected kriegsmen, and it was ironic since it attempted to propagate a tyranid infestation on a man who would never pass on his genetic material in any way. The story explicitly stated that men would or would not be passing on their genes, therefore definitely not clones. Possibly the case that they initially boosted the population using clone soldiers and phased it out or they simply pump out clones at a steady rate along with normally birthed humans. Food for thought.
Really love your work. As someone who is relatively new to 40K, I'm really soaking up all the information. Thanks for making this such an enjoyable experience. 😁
@@TheSkyGuy77 Space German Empire. Mordians are pre-unification Prussia, Krieg is WW1 Germany. They wisely refrained from having a direct equivalent to WW2 germany but the Armageddon Steel Legions have a lot of traits from all parties involved in that war and Valhalla is unashamedly the Red Army IN SPACE!!!!!.
Hope to a great new year the this awesome channel. Extremely happy that I’ve found this channel and became immersed in 40k!Proud to be part of the Luetin sleep gang as well!
Got into 40k when I first came across your Emperor of Man lore video, got hooked and am digging trenches with my favorite regiment. And now you bless us with this gift. *happy gasmask noises*
Thanks for all the videos this year Leutin09, you're a talented creator and your insights into WH40K are thought provoking. I am suspicious regarding your lack of content on our brave, noble, great commissar Ciaphas Cain. But, I'm sure you have your reasons.
A great big thank you for providing these in-depth and thoughtful glimpses into the background and lore of the grimdarkness of the 41st millennium. Also, my new headcanon is now that like the Pyro from Team Fortress 2, the Kriegsters are actually entirely unhinged and delusional, envisioning themselves gleefully prancing amidst unicorns and rainbows while casually lopping off heads with an entrenching tool or immolating trenches full of "traitorous rebels" guilty of the sin of wanting a better life for themselves and their childrens' children. You can't convince me otherwise anymore.
I have only recently entered the depressing world of 40K and I love it already. So far, my favorite factions are the Imperium and the Korps. I love the imperium because, well, it’s the imperium. Need I explain? And for the Korps? I love them because they seem less like an advanced space army and more like the what 40K is as a whole. Like you said, the Korps are seen as the embodiment of 40K or something like that. I love their tank designs, their uniforms, their weapons, and their lore. (Thx for explaining their lore btw!)
Those leg wraps are called Puttees and they originally was to prevent the pant leg openings from catching and so tripping, and ripping the trousers, on barb wire, wire post, and rocks, ect ect ect.. I do WWI reenactments so the Death Corps has the strongest connection with me in the 40K universe.
I discovered this channel just a few months ago, and I'm absolutely loving it. Thank you so much for your hard work, and I hope you have a happy holidays \o/
I believe that the vitae wombs function as follows: Growing a new soldier requires essentially three parts - an egg, a sperm cell and an environment to grow the embryo in. Krieg grows the eggs and sperm cell synthetically, likely with the aid of Greel, to be genetic clones of Jurten. These are then fertilized in vitro and implanted into the vitae womb, which is a purely mechanical construct, providing the embryo with the correct temperature, nourishment and most importantly, the enzymes to accelerate growth. The idea is that this completely eliminates the need for actual pregnancy and can be scaled to industrious levels. Each vitae womb would thus be able to "birth" one soldier in around one month. A downside of the vitae womb, and why it's generally frowned upon, is the fact that this accelerated growth can lead to embryos simply ceasing to function, similar to how some aspiring Astartes do not surivive the process of having their new organs implanted. Furthermore, soldiers birthed from vitae wombs are sterile and completely unable to reproduce naturally. Thus, vitae wombs actually pose a threat to the continuation of humanity, not through destruction, but through the fact that each soldier birthed from a vitae womb is by definition the last of his artifical bloodline. They're in a sense artificial humans, designed only to fight and die. This would also explain why Krieg soldiers have no problem throwing their life away, because they have no future. All of this is of course pure speculation, but it would explain why the Imperium isn't really keen on using them. Not because of some moral issue, but because it quite literally threatens humanity.
I am no 40K crack by any means or even deeply involved into the lore by any metric. It seems every time I listen to a 40K lore video I only scratched the surface. I find it amusing that the Imperium with all their countless violations of ethics and morals they single that one instance of vitae wombs out. But your educated guess with the important detail of infertility is the best and most believable so far (from the few hot takes I have read here in the comments) and why this seemingly hypocritical stance makes sense and is absolutely logical. At the very least, when you reduce it to a single argument that speaks for the Imperium's reasoning, at its core the aversion of this technology is driven purely by the survival instinct and thus survival of mankind. The connotation of egoism or should I say lack of selflessness within this argument of "ethics" makes it even more believable. But at the very end it's all for the Emperor, so altruism and sacrifice is implied, right? 😉
The best thing about Luetin's videos is that he presents 40k lore in a proffesional and serious manner, a lot of other popular 40k lore video creators make the lore into a silly joke, making fun of the lore more than presenting it.
Perfect timing, hoping to start a Krieg Kill Team for Christmas and this video and the audiobooks are just what I needed. Great work as always Luetin, happy holidays!
You have been one of my favorite 40K commentators. I make sure to watch your videos because you provide good content and lore explanation. I really appreciate that you are willing to speculate, while exclaiming it to be so, and clarifying whit is cannon, and what is not. What would 40K be without everyone having their own read on it? Simultaneously, I am happy to give you extra views while napping! So much other content is jarring and incoherent in a way where I wake up when it is not your video. The only downside is that I have to comb your posts' so I do not nap through good new content and mistake it as old stuff. Love all your new stuff, gladly "syndicating" your old content, LOL!!!
Thank you luetin09 for this wonderful video. The death korps of krieg is my favorite guardsmen regiment so I’m glad you finally got to make a video about them.
Nothing relaxes me more before bedtime than a new lore video from lore master Luetin about entire regiments of borderline suicidal maniacs ,ready to die for a mummified , all powerful father figure ,who is slouching on the most expensive chair of all time . Gotta love 40k .
Leutin my life has been rough this year. My wife and I split up and I haven't seen my son for a year. I want you to know that winding down in the evening getting lost in 50k lore videos that you make helps me forget, at least for a time, all of that. Thank you.
I imagine that kriegsmen dont all look exactly like our boy, but all have his key features. Kinda like a bunch of sons will all look similar yet lightly different.
When you really look at a Krieger, the only really "German" feature of their uniform is the coal-scuttle helmet, they take a lot of inspiration from all armies on the Western Front of the Great War, and personally, I think their uniforms are most inspired by the French army, what with the blue coats and all.
@@JoetheDilo1917 mate I'm sorry but even with all the goodwill in the world just acknowledge that you're wrong here in this particular instance. From the names of the locations to the protagonists to their helmets and their military dress it is way more WW1 German than anything else.
@@mr.goldenproductions_0143 Or you could actually take a look at WW1 uniforms. The Krieg trenchcoat is of French design, their gas mask is of English design, and their boots are of French design as well. Even the packs they wear are more French inspired than German. Their helmets are a mashup of the Adrien and Stahlhelm. And this is just the infantry. The reason the Kriegers have German names is because they're supposed to be a mashup of every WW1 army and so little of their uniform is Prussian in design that the German elements of WW1 are therefore shown through naming conventions.
I dont know what the universe did to line up things the way they did. But, damn I'm thankful for what you do Luten. You're singlehandedly becoming an undisputed pillar of the Warhammer 40,000 community. You're who we come to when we need to know more. Thank you luten. You are appreciated. We see you, we hear you. We thank you.
What I love is that when you talk about this stuff you never talk about it like it’s tabletop lore we are learning. You talk about it like it’s some real shit and It makes the drama and all the craziness so much more palpable.
I find the Kriegsman incredibly relatable. I’m a young security guard, and some days I’m so tired, exhausted, and jaded from all that I’ve seen, but I keep on fighting and drudging through 16 hour shifts just because it’s all I know. Sometimes it feels like I’m paying for sins I never even committed, and the only reason I continue to suffer existence is because I deserve it, and only when I die does the pain end. I wonder if anybody else feels the same, and if you do, may the Emperor protect.
My brother I hope that you see this. I’ve been where you are now. I want you to know that you don’t have to feel like this, it doesn’t have to stay your ‘normal’. Please, even though it might seem impossible to find the time or the money to do so, please make it a priority to find a therapist/psychologist who specialises in mens health (if that’s you) and depression and just commit to some regular sessions, even if only for the sake of me, some random UA-cam commenter haha But really, it’s for yourself. There’s nothing to be ashamed of or anything like that, the world kinda sucks rn and it’s ok (reasonable even) to feel that. You just can’t let those feelings become you. It might (and probably does) feel hopeless but I promise that there are professionals out there who can help you not have to feel like this. I can promise that it does get better. And I can promise that it’s worth it. The emperor protects.
Some jobs can be extremely taxing and detrimental to one's mental health. I quit nursing because the ethical failings I had to witness and even participate in daily really fucked me up. I realized I can't change the work environment, only leave it to those who can handle it. Bro, you only have one psyche and one brain, losing them for a job is not worth your salary.
Security and those fuckin shifts do that to you. I left that job a year ago, found a little village and now I work with horses kind of off the grid. If you have the chance, find something that makes you feel realized. Life is a grind, but it doesn't have to be that hard.
Most anticipated video from you yet! Thanks for doing this one dude. Plus getting some audiobooks about these epic servants of the Emperor is even better.
I've only recently got into 40K, and just wanted to say your videos have really helped me get up to speed with what can be some pretty tangled lore for a newbie! I find them fascinating! So, thanks!
Listened to both Krieg and Dead man walking They are really good books and I recommend both of them. I already knew the history of Krieg generally but the book made it so much more interesting with all the nuances
As someone who got into 40k heavily because of your amazing lore videos, and as a fan of the Krieg, I am beyond thankful for the work you put into this video. It's a fantastic primer to the Krieg as a faction. Thank you a ton for this gift just before the holidays. Merry Christmas, Happy Jaunicha, Happy Kwanzaa, and a very Happy Holidays no matter which one you practice!
So the Vitae Womb is actually explained somewhat in the 2010 novel, "Dead Men Walking." A commissar assigned to a Death Korps regiment remembers when he took advantage of his position outside of the chain of command to visit Krieg while the regiment he was joining was being founded. Apart from touring the battlefields wearing a almost mythical white arm band (all hostilities must cease between the red armband youth army and blue armband youth army) he actually got to briefly walk through a part of one of the subterranean hives. He describes being horrified from the experience. Nearly the entire population he saw was female, all in varying stages of pregnancy with emotionless faces. The population is kept heavily drugged to prevent mental an emotional breakdowns that would lower their productivity. It's not precisely stated that that is what the Vitae Womb actually is, but it's the only description of the cities themselves that I know of.
This 90 min video was a heavy haul for me at the end of this year, but I hope that you will enjoy what I guess is Part one for the Death Korps. There's still some more stuff I want to try and get done before the actual end of the year, BIG THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THIS YEAR.
I LOVE YOU LUETIN
Thanks man you’re still the best Warhammer lore channel and this was a great early Christmas surprise!
Love you lore-daddy ❤️ Happy holidays to you and yours
Merry Christmas Luetin!
You brought 40k to me through your excellent content.
Thank you very much, greetings from Germany.
Tried to sneak this one by us at 1AM but I'm always watching Luetin. Always.
2AM squad from another part of glorious Terra reporting for duty too.
3am for me
@@pastoralpaul1002 For Leutin the glorious Loremaster of mankind
My Lord Inquisitor…
@@pastoralpaul1002 I can
A 90 minute video?
The emperor truly has answered our Christmas prayers
You mean EMPEROR'S DAY heretic!
@@derekschon314 very sus indeed. unclean?
Happy Sanguinala!
Merry Slaaneshmas!
Word!
"In life, war. In death, peace."
"In life, shame. In death, atonement."
-Final Litany of The Death Corp or Kreig before battle.
Almost sounds like the grey wardens in war victory in peace vigilance in death sacrifice
They will be reborn to other Hive.The struggle never ends in death,it ends with change that life could bring.
@@dirtynessenjoyerNo, they won't be reborn. They're all clones anyways. Only in death does duty end.
-for no reason -the emperor
To quote our humble servant "The emperor, should he ever awaken from his throne, could destroy the unbreakable Death Korps with one single sentence..... 'I forgive you"
Hearing that still gives me chills. The sad irony and tragedy that is the Death Korps of Krieg.
I think they would then strive to prove themselves worthy of that forgiveness
This stark, unforgiving beauty.
The ostensibly necessary horror that is mankind.
This is what no other series has been able to capture.
I am ... at a loss for words.
If that happens, I think the Krieg would be even more zealous more than they already are
@@Codex_0613 I can see it:
The Debt is paid, now the Kriegsman dies not as penance, but for the Glory of the Imperium.
@@Rembanspellsong this zealotry more loyal then even the emperors traitor sons? They had earned the forgiveness long ago
Could you imagine how unbelievably pissed off a Krieg army would be if they were accidently tasked to garrison a paradise world
Aren't Paradise worlds often even without a PDF/have a very strongly worded _request_ to keep filthy dumb IG Scum off their soil unless the sky is literally falling? But yes. Triply so cause they'd be banned from drills completely.
I get a depressed feeling myself thinking about pleasure worlds, strange init? Maybe i am spiritualy the same.
Love and Kreig, Terranis Holds. Forever.
@@d.d.h6749 Its not weird, most people, usually men have it that way. We get less depressed when we see a shitty place, because then we can think: "Well, at least im not living in THAT universe" as opposite to "Damn i wish i lived there"
@@notrius7754there's a comic about this actually
Just got home from work and there's a 90 minute video on the death korps cutie death squad. It's a chrimbus miracle.
Cant wait to sleep to this after my shift ends
Merry chrimbus to all!
Thanks deevee. I got everything i wanted
@@jonathoncottone4875 May the luck o' the irish smile on ya!
Made me think of Death Cab for Cutie.
This is exactly what I needed tonight. Thank you Lutein, this year wouldn't have been the same without you.
my last 5 years wouldn't have been the same without this legend
I agree, I really needed this too.
Same
Ditto
Just got off of work so same
The lore master has once again blessed us with his knowledge. Thank you kind sir
check out Dead Men Walking, its good. < I actually meant this as a reply for another poster lol but the comments moved up. I STAND BY MY RECOMMENDATION
Knowledge. In 40K. That sounds like heresy to me.
@@Luetin09 sounds like some zombie movie ;D
@@Luetin09 Yea, its short and an easy read.
Necrons and Krieg in the same book, can't go wrong!
I am reminded of the Guard novel Dead Men Walking. An officer character is captured by chance by a few civilians and they plant themselves in front of a column of Kreigsmen. Officer shouts at them to halt while the kidnappers scream demands. Then they are all gunned down. And as the officer lie there dying, he feels a quartermaster retrieving the officers wargear and struggles to keep his sword.
It was the commissar of the regiment
Adeptus administratium clerk: “upon your reunification with the Imperium you will need to provide a single regiment. How many troops have you levied?” The leader of Krieg: “200,000 units ready, with a million more well on the way.”
Clerk: *Confused excited gagging*
lol or leader of Krieg: "All Ready" , Clerk: "im sorry what", leader of Krieg:" you shall have everyone and they will die gladly, women and children too"
Everyone can have cool UA-cam comments if they copy scripts from popular films like Star Wars
@@IAmTheDawn stop smoking crack its bad for ya health
@@IAmTheDawn 🤓
The Kriegsman knows no fear, because before his first battle, he has accepted that he is already dead.
The dead don't suffer, the Kreigsmen know nothing but suffering
That's wrong though. Kreigers aren't completely immune to fear just like how sisters of battle aren't completely incorruptible. At the Siege of Vrak, we've already seen the complete breakdown and routed of the 158th Regiment of the 12th Line. Remember in the end no matter how indoctrinated and brainwash they are. They're still just human in the end.
This is false. They feel fear and they don't accept death. But the honor duty before treason. As Japanese soldiers have done for thousands of years committing to suicide if they fail their Shogun or Emperor. They slice their guts and if they are lucky in some cases get their heads chopped off by a trusted ally. That's how the kriegsmen are. They aren't superhuman super soldiers. They value their lives but believe anything the emperor or officers command for them to do is for the better for the emperor and humanity. As Russians have always had strict 227 No Retreat orders in acts on penal battalions the same applies to the Star Wars clone troopers killing the Jedi from being ordered to do so. They are loyal to the cause it doesn't mean they aren't scared. And it shows very clearly as well how you have no idea what the kriegsmen are because you don't know their training style. Since you say before his first battle yet in krieg you're entire life is based on working in a factory until you're old enough to train and then you are hunted down and shot at and blown up by you're instructors to try and kill you incase you aren't strong enough or have the set skills to survive. You're first experience wearing a Krieg uniform is based on nearly dying. The statement you copied and pasted from Wikipedia on the kriegsmen is just false.
@@inquisitorsteele8397I can't agree with calling them brainwashed. They literally fight and die to keep humanity alive. Unlike real life places like America with their propaganda kriegsmen serve a actual purpose as all guardsmen do and they die fighting the galaxies greatest threats to humans. As well retreating and routing isn't a sign of humanity even though I agree they do have human emotion routing in general or retreating Is literally what all animals do in a fight with their pack mates to reorganize and regroup for another attack. It's not a fear system it's based around falling back to a better position to gain the upper hand when you're men are split too far or can't seem to communicate you fall back regroup count your numbers and send another charge in after giving you're men a second to breathe. Officers in world war 1, world war 2 German officers, 18th 17th 16th even 2nd century officers would always send their men out of their trenches and dug in positions in attack formations then fall back after small skirmish battles to reorganize regroup and weaken the enemy. The Germans in world war 2 organized this effectively and so did the Vietnamese in Vietnam. Causing massive allied and NATO casualties in both those wars. You hit the enemy give 'em a good slap on the cheek and run off and come from a different angle and they won't see it coming. That's even what Calvary was used for in every war up until world war 2. Flanking the enemy then routing out then pushing in again when they're enemy gets comfortable. It's an amazing strategic tactic that we've used forever as wolves do. As well as lions. And more. The Kriegsman in most cases is just doing the most beneficial thing no matter how humane it seems it's actually not. Like killing wounded soldiers isn't something they do to put them out of their misery they just do it to ensure they don't take prisoners and don't get shot in the back. They have no mercy and that stems from teachings at a young age how they don't need to worry about hurting another persons feelings. Real children are taught don't hit someone kriegs children are taught kill each other for a piece of bread. There's a big psychological difference to consider between real people and this 41st millennium soldiering in factual evidence provided by 19th century warfare and 18th century you can see men used line formations in battle they'd literally stand there and March into hails of bullets as men all around them that they would eat and laugh with daily would be slaughtered like nothing and they'd keep marching and prepare to fire their weapons and shoot the enemy while knowing they could be next to be hit by hundreds of musket balls. So even shown back then men ages 20 to 25 equipped for the conscription or draft to Americans would be trained to be very easily able to take orders. So kriegsmen aren't even far from reality yes they have human emotion. But they have extreme restraint and most of their humanity such as sadness and regret is out of the question not there. They don't feel mercy for killing others or doing what they think is right which by modern psychological terms is considered a psychopath. but that's all soldiers in all history ever to exist by modern logic. So yes they are men who have feelings they are human and they do know what they are doing but they come from a different planet a different way of life and a completely different way of survival then we have as modern day humans. So No I'd say these men aren't brainwashed they are simply trained differently and brought up in a different way and if that's called brainwashed it means we all are. As I said they only route not as fear sets in but so they can regroup reorganize and prepare to attack the enemy in skirmish combat.
@@GhilieDawg “As the artillery fire hammered down it caused the utter collapse of the 158th regiment's attack in sector 50-45. The Commissars amongst the retreating assault squads demanded that the men stand firm and push on, summarily executing the first men to take any steps backwards. In return, several Commissars were shot out of hand by their own side as the shredded assault companies scurried back to the safety of their own trenches. At the parapet the first wave collided with the second wave as they moved forwards to begin their advance. Fighting broke out as the officers of the second wave tried to force passage forwards. After only a couple hours the 158th regiment's attack had disintegrated into shambles. For the regiment's abject failure, the colonel and his staff would be arrested and eventually executed. The regiment was then disbanded by the 88th Siege Army's commissars. All the survivors would be sentenced to serve amongst the Penal Legions.”
That's hardly what I would call well retreated, they're literally fled in disgraceful manner and murder thier own comrades-in-arm to get away to safety. I'm say that they're human in the end because it was common perception that Kreigers are more like fearless war machines without any trace of emotion rather than human which isn't entirely correct.
The death korps of sleep
All hail Luetin the lore master of the Imperium
Absolutely love your videos luetin, some of the most detailed stuff out there and we can tell how much u put into these, thank you
This sounds like heresy to me
Krieg is like a never ending WW1 horror.
That's, uhh, the point XD
From the future :D
Turns out that bloody trench warfare isn't such a relic of the past these days... It's just the fallback whenever the armored vehicles get too shot up. We have to look at 40k through a new lens.
It's the movie "All quiet in the Western Front" All day and all night.
' Krieg ' is the German word for war. So there's that.
Man, I’ve had one hard year mentally…
But without going to deep I just want you to know, these videos saved my life. Listening to these whilst in bed has saved me from my thoughts and helped my mind to find peace.
Now I’m back to my old self, I now find them more enjoyable… instead of using them as a simple sleep aid, I now look listen to them from start to finish.
Much respect my friend, brilliant content
Very humbling mate and glad to hear this. I have been there in the past, finding content to focus on is a big big help, glad these could do it for you.
@@Luetin09 you're going to do a three sisters video?
Keep on fighting homie, things get better with time almost always 🙏
Keep up the good fight brother Corey!
The God Emperor protects!!!!!!!!!!
My hypothesis is that the Korpsmen are definitely humanborn, but the conditions of the Krieg population leave them doomed to crippling mutation and frequent womb death, resulting in the necessitation of the Vitae Wombs. They aren't cloned directly, so much as they are artificially infused with stable DNA of the late Colonel. This fills in the damaged parts of the genetic structure and instills the resulting Korpsman with the steady calm of Jurten, but the Korpsmen's own innate noticing that they are effectively missing part of their soul (the part lost to mutation, expunged and substituted with the Vitae Womb's generation processes) leads to them being suicidally aggressive. Were it not for Jurten's devotion pushing them to a cause, they would be savage bastards who turned on humans the moment they had the chance to.
Imho they are no longer pure humans. Due to the radiation providing more mutations and their war providing selection they had moved past original humans. They adapted to the toxic enviroment, they adapted to neverending artilery showers.
They see themselves as traitors to the humanity and hate themselves. They hope to earn their place by the emperor by sacrifice. They want to die for Him.
But why did they adopt Nazi insignia and aesthetics mixed in with a heavy dash of Kaiser Wilhelm.
@@The_ZeroLine check your history dude. Korpsemen took ww1 aesthetics, not nazi
@@The_ZeroLine Planetary culture. Those uniforms aren't new; the planet's infantry wore that for a long time before the Imperium's return.
They didn't adopt a Nazi insignia at all.
@@The_ZeroLine only the helmet is similar, the jacket is more french
Can we petition to get Luetin a cameo in the 40k series in development with Henry Cavil? I can totally see hearing Luetin's voice over a vox-caster as some Imperial Admiral or General.
Not Admiral or General... but a Priest or Zealot .. calling out to those around him to pray for to the Emperor.
Or someone who explains history of the Warhammer World in background Informations while watching the Series ^^
@@corvaxblackfeather6529 Actually according to lore he would most likely be a chapter Librarian of some kind. A keeper of knowledge.
it will be bad
Yeah, why not. Start it up bud, I’ll sign.
@@redcrown5154 I bet you don't enjoy anything
Oh man I usually never post comments on UA-cam but I've been struggling for a year with depression, anxiety and insomnia, and I cannot stress enough how helpful your videos have been to help me sleep.
I don't play tabletop and know Warhammer through the fantasy universe, but with Darktide's release I finally delved into the 40K Grimdark and I must say you offer such a great content among other UA-camrs that I just fell in love with your channel.
What I want to say is thank you for all this work you put in, thank you for the precision and clarity with which you engage on your subjects.
Have a wonderful Christmas and happy New year,
Love from France,
Ronan.
I am glad to hear that the channel has been helpful mate. Its always very humbling to hear that I can help people in any way like this.
@@Luetin09 you know what helps more when you get real down is the small things, and for me it was a double positive effect, it helped me sleep, but it also quenches my thirst for knowledge
@Luetin09 I have to agree , I know you must hear this alot , but as a person who's always been a troubled sleeper , getting my mind to calm enough to fall asleep, ever since I discovered your videos , iv discovered so much about a new universe and had much better sleeps
Hugs
go to a therapist
Clones are like overalls for demons in 40k which is why the emps was against it, but the korps members go without showing their face and not holding a name. Which seems a great way to avoid the warp beasts for some reason. It was mentioned in other works. total guess
names hold power in 40k its why (from what ive seen) calling a demon by its real name will have one of two effets, it will be either somewhat cautious...or fly into a berserk fury that would make horus look like a kitten
Individuality grants identity which makes your soul and subconscious have a greater presence in the warp is my logic for that
I went on a long road trip to visit family 17 hrs drive one way and back returning. These video series, including at least a dozen videos there and back has been a wonderful companion all the way on the trip. Listened to this video, the entire Emperor of Man, Inquisition series, Gregor, The Warp and several others. So much lore I absorbed listening the entire way at 70+ mph and it kept my mind awake with interest all the way. Man, i so much enjoyed these vids with interest one after the other and I never got one but bored at all. Just a fantastic job with these vids!
Did you begin screaming “heresy!” at your family every time they said something?!
So very excited to see this latest opus, Luetin, the Emperor’s own Keeper of Lore! Thank you for your sacrifice of time, your devotion to the source material and your desire to share such expertise and obvious passion with all of us. The Emperor protects!
Getting a lore video from you is like opening and drinking old bottle of wine
Absolutely delicious ❤
Hell yeah : D
I didn’t think he’d like my comment lol but hearing his lore is soothing af! Like some fine wine lmao
Dude that a perfect analogy 😂 Like a treat to be savoured and something you look forward to enjoying.
@@Guaguadeath the good stuff you drink from a glass lmao 🍷
Stuck on a 12 hour shift with nothing to do and I forgot my laptop mouse, thank you for giving something to do luetin!
The theory on how they churn out so many soldiers is always a fun topic, not because its a good thing but mainly because of the mystery. With how effective the Death Korps is I would imagine that the womb things are completely synthetic. One or several hundred thousand unfortunate souls turned into... unlucky servitors... Is a set of hands that arent making weapons or turning a wrench.
Always an absolute pleasure to listen to these. Hard to believe you were a Squad or general FPS channel once upon a time LOL
A hand turning a wrench is s womb not optimally sustained for the creation of superior clone soldiers. Other worlds can turn wrenches. No place but Krieg produces Kriegsmen
I think my favorite portrayal of the Kriegsman is from a meme where 2 of them are talking about the enemies being dead and that they'll be dead soon too but both are ecstatic about dying.
The Death Korps of Krieg, where our motto is "Pyrrhic victory is best victory!"
In the grim darkness of the far future, Pyrrhic victory is the _only_ victory.
That applies to literally every human faction at least as long as we speak guardsmen
@@zawarudo1041space marine:"we cannot afford 40 casualty". Corpsmen:"40k death, damn that's bad but we can go on". Kriegs:"40k death, lucky bastards I am still here"
hahaha you can’t spell victory without pyrrhic! Yes you can. Heresy! Recycle its organics!
I finally listened to First and Only recently and I’m ADDICTED to the Guard now, planning to get the Gaunts Ghosts omnibuses to finish the story. One of my favorite 40k books I’ve ever experienced.
Gaunts Ghosts books are about the krieg?
@@akirafan28 No, he mentioned first and only in his intro about Audible and I just felt compelled to say something about it!
@@OddFellowGaming Gotcha! 👍🏻
Gaunts Ghosts and everything about them is top tier 40k content andlong with Cain.
@@adrienwatson2179 Cain is definitely on my list. I’m just trying to branch out from Uriel Ventris and Space Marine stuff.
Sounds to me like the reason Greel really wanted the Kreigsman to be clones of Jurten was that he saw Jurten as one hell of a weapon in human form. His efficiency and logical thinking was very machine-like and probably highly valuable to Greel in that regard. Greel likely saw him as an extremely valuable asset to maintain.
I think his name is spelled greil but not 100% sure
Grael.
I would think that the Kriegsman are not quite identical clones, just clones using Yutin's DNA similar to the Votann. So all of the Kriegsman would look "related", but not identical.
There’s rumour that the Death Korps Of Krieg was allotted the the largest Tithe of the whole empire. One that was unsustainable for a planet. Designed for exterminate them for their heresy.
The Population of Krieg then Doubled their imperial Tithe in the quest for forgiveness.
The only way to do this is Krieg basically has 2 societies. The human society that works the factories and the clone society that are produced on a inhuman industrial scale. Who age at twice the rate of a normal human because they will die in their first battle within 5 years of birth. Before they have even stepped off their drop ship their replacement is already on its way. Their replacement is being spilled from the Vat of protein and starch.
They are brainwashed from their first hours of birth to the point their are issued equipment still hot from the press and crammed on a transport to whichever hellscape they have been assigned.
They’re not human whatever humanity was left from the end of the kreig civil war has been cloned out. They’re biological weapons in a gas mask. Who believe that their life is worth one foot 2 bolter rounds and corpse to keep the men behinds feet out of the knee deep mud on the battlefield. Churned up by the unending drone of and meat grinder of the Krieg artillery corps.
Well that isn´t exactly correct the Kin actually use multiple dna samples instead of one. They often modify new clones which explain why clones created from the same dna can look quite different. The novel Krieg all but confirms that the DK are just clones of Jurten. A Inquisitors apprentice at one point orders a trio of DK to unmask, something the DK were hesitant to do but after some pressure did. We never know what he saw but after that he was determint to get permission to go to Krieg himself to get some answers. He ends up critically injured shortly afterwards due to a Ork attack and is found by multiple DK but instead of helping him they do nothing but stare at him, seemingly waiting for him to expire.
@@visitingforgefather5997Based Krieg
I've heard the story and lore of the Death Korps of Krieg and with very notable channels covering it in their own way, I will always be willing to hear and see it again with Luetin09. No one is as detailed as you on the Warhammer 40k universe and you make my day everytime you do a new video.
It's only been 30mins since the upload, but I got a feeling this one's about to get millions of views in no time.
Can't wait to get home and watch all of it. Maybe twice. May the god emperor bless you all
By the light of the glorious Emperor the lore master has done another beyond exceptional video
I know this video is over a year old, and so I assume this comment will never be read by anyone ever, but "uncertain Jurten" has GOT to be a Dr Seuss style children's book in the imperium: "It looked like curtains but Jurten felt certain the heretics were flirtin with a hurtin' "
Na bro I read it it’s cool 😎
@@harry8485 Haha! Thanks, man
Lol thats great.
My gene seed, aka father, read me Uncertain Jurten as a child. But now, when I sit on his lap, he just sits there with most of his skull showing.
Jurken the gherkin
I think the death korps are pretty much as close as a person can get to becoming a space marine without actually recieving any sort of modification.
Well, don’t forget callidus (I think? The crazy ones that are essentially just blenders on the battlefield) assassins. They’ve been shown to straight up beat space marines multiple times. Now, of course, they also are extremely unstable, so they aren’t anywhere near as good long-term. But short-term, they’re weirdly close to custodes in terms of sheer power. Wild
@@jaccobbailey8247there modified though.
Aren't the maccabean jannisaries pretty close as well?
@@kekkoinen Maybe, never really heard about them tbh.
@@HippieInHeart don't remember much about them, though I think they had some high caliber guns and heavy armor. They were from a shrine world so extremely zealous as well
The Death Korps wield TWO weapons like no other sheer blinkered willpower and a shovel
So basically the planet went from WW1 to WW2 on an infinite loop mixed with the events of every Fallout game
Ouch, that's a rough but honest assessment.
THREE weapons like no other - sheer blinkered willpower, a shovel, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Emperor... wait no FOUR weapons like no other, sheer blinkered willpower, a shovel, suicidal courage, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Emperor... ok wait no...
@@stevepalpatine2828 Ah if it isn't emperor Palpatine
@@thehunterofmordor4017no that's his dyslexic clone 😂😂
I can imagine Jurten in his last moments, looking up at his constant compatriot Greel approaching him with tubes for tissue samples, desperately trying to choke out his opposition to the techpriest's plan.
even more grimdark, harvesting his corpse later. serious decomposition takes a few days to get going,and dna lasts thousands of years. Greel would have plenty time to harvest the corpse of his friend for samples, especially with tech like stasis pods
blessed be the Emperor’s most trusted Remembrancer, for he has granted us the gift of our favorite mad lads of the Militarum.
I love the idea that all the Death Korps are clones of Colonel Jurten.
Hey, Leutin, I just wanna say that your channel is my favorite one I've stumbled on while browsing the site.
I got into 40k when I was 12, started collecting Necrons and CSM around when 3rd Edition came out and I've been hooked ever since. I used to spend hours reading and even just browsing the wikis clicking link after link soaking all of the weirdness in. Your channel brings me back to those days of endlessly immersing myself in 40k. If I were to ever make a YT channel, it'd have to be one like yours. I love your content. Thanks for sharing it, my man.
On the subject of the vat womb, a parallel I'd like to drawn is the one with dune. In dune one of the faction creates gholas, wich are artificial human, the gholas are created in axlotl tank. Those tank are as we learn pretty late in the series actual woman made into reproductive tank. Since 40k is drawing a lot of inspiration from dune, axlotl tank and vat womb always seemed close and pretty similar to me. And it does make it pretty dark too.
Ya the twiloxu are pretty Warhammer40k
Deamonculaba?
@@ordohereticus5530 from what I know of the daemonculaba, yes and no, they are similar, but the vibe is different, idk, one of the interesting part of gholas is that they have the memory of the person they've been cloned from, so it is not strictly speaking a newborn, but a reproduction of someone else/a dead (Wich for me links pretty well with the all I am jurten thing from the krieg Book). Daemonculaba are "just" reproductive factories. But both are close yes.
What a perfect time to drop this video, literally less than a day after I take an interest in the Kriegsmen. I'm very new in general to Warhammer and I'm hella thankful Luetin is making such quality stuff, thanks for all the hard work!
Luetin09, thank you for this and all you do. You got me into Warhammer years ago! Much love!
Emperor's blessings, good sir!
Ever since I found out about Death Korps of Krieg, I have been waiting for you to make a dedicated video about them. Thank you very much! I shall watch this video a dozen or so times in the next month, at least.
I like the clone idea, but once I stumbled across an idea that I like even more. The Vitae Wombs are first used to purify them of genetic mutations, and second, they are used to dramatically increase the rate of fraternal and identical twins in utero. So they are not all Jurten, just swarms of similar looking Brothers and sisters, although it's quite possible he's the "Y" DNA contributor in many cases like Gengis Khan. This also supports the idea that many of them are essentially child-soldiers because war is all they have ever known.
I like this idea bc it sort of fits with the WW1/WW2 european cultural aesthetic, as well as the 30 Years war with the Protestants v. Catholics.
Oddly enough, it was the death korps that introduced me to WH40k. I was going through a Sabaton phase a few years back and found a video where someone played “Attack of the Dead Men” over an animation of the Death Korps of Krieg. That got me curious about WH40k and now here I am, spending hours listening to a deep dive into the Death Korps. 😂
All praise the Omnissiah! Luetin has blessed us with a truly wonderous gift of lore! In all seriousness Luetin you and Occulus are my go to's for 40k lore. The depth and passion you put into your videos are second to none.
Krieg is one of the things in the 40k Lore that anchor me as a fan. The stories I write in my head to pass the time if not star then at least prominently feature Kriegers (Plural of Krieg?) even along side Astartes, Sisters of Battle, and the Inquisition. I only hope one day that this part of the universe can be properly expanded upon in movies and games.
Kriegans. Kriegites. Kriegish. Kriegian. Kriegese. Kriegalian. Kriegican. Kriegonian. Lol the first choice seems best. Krieger is warrior in German so kriegan would seem to fit the faction name. Like how we don’t call English Anglicans, despite the similar root.
I really wonder why we haven't gotten a Krieg game. Heck, a traditional RTS would even work: they'd fight and die as ordered.
"Kriegers" and "Kriegsmen" are the most common demonyms in the various books and codices.
@@GaldirEonai kriegsmen, didn’t think of that
Krieger makes the most sense, because it's the german word for warrior.
Was just sitting here laying in bed looking for the perfect lore video to watch tonight and the master himself grants us something special for sure.
God I love the WW1 German aesthetic of The Death Korps of Krieg.
Except it's not German......
It's a broad mix from across the nation's that fought. The only distinctly German thing is the name.
Puttees - British, adopted by the French, and only by late war with the Germans as they'd seen their usefulness from the Brits
Jacket - french style pin-back (used by other nations but primarily France)
French style rifle bayonets - German bayonets were much bigger and broader, almost like a machete on the rifle
Gasmask - 100% British small box pattern, and nothing like the German one
Helmets - mix of German stahlhelm and features of the French/Belgian Adrian.
@@CrichtonNo5 bro you know your history. You even know your uniforms
@Knife yes he does *IS NICE*
And the fighting style borrowed from Canadians
@@CrichtonNo5they're based off Germany
In one Novel I read it talks of a commissar and the last surviving Kriegsman in a squad speaking. In it he convinces the boy to take off his helmet, and you see just that, that he is very young, barely out of his teens of at all. However, he also talks about seeing the underground bunkers where there are in fact women who look horrible and pale. They aren't trained to be soldiers, but their lives aren't much better since their sole purpose is to essentially to birth babies and look after them for only a couple years or so before they begin their training as deathkorps. The novel was called "Dead Men Walking" (I'd give it a 5/10 it started off so good and different but eventually turned into a 40k book).
At any rate, he made no mention of vitae wombs that I remember specifically, and this doesn't actually contradict the whole cloning thing since they could be in some way artificially inseminated. On the other hand I had read a short story that was -retarded- regarding training on the home world of krieg where as part of the final stage of training the Death Korps of Krieg would engage in an actual battle against somehow genetically impure/weak rejected recruits. In this stupid and pointless fight where valuable material and manpower are wasted so the exported Korps can technically have fought a battle, it was revealed a genestealer made it to the planet... somehow, and injected its xeno-spunk into one of the rejected kriegsmen, and it was ironic since it attempted to propagate a tyranid infestation on a man who would never pass on his genetic material in any way. The story explicitly stated that men would or would not be passing on their genes, therefore definitely not clones.
Possibly the case that they initially boosted the population using clone soldiers and phased it out or they simply pump out clones at a steady rate along with normally birthed humans. Food for thought.
Really love your work. As someone who is relatively new to 40K, I'm really soaking up all the information. Thanks for making this such an enjoyable experience. 😁
Same I am finding it to be my favorite universe so far. I hope they don't ruin it the more people start to like it.
@@elix901 GW always finds a way to mess up XD
@@akaroth7542 I've heard.
Krieg isn’t a planet with an army.
Krieg is an army with a planet.
*Der totale Krieg intensifies*
So its Space Prussia?
😂
@@TheSkyGuy77
That would be the Vostroian First Born
@@TheSkyGuy77 Space German Empire.
Mordians are pre-unification Prussia, Krieg is WW1 Germany. They wisely refrained from having a direct equivalent to WW2 germany but the Armageddon Steel Legions have a lot of traits from all parties involved in that war and Valhalla is unashamedly the Red Army IN SPACE!!!!!.
@@adman1381 Those are tsarist Russia more than anything else.
Closing out the year with our 40k professor. The amount of information I’ve got about this stuff from you is staggering. Thank you.
Dark tide got me into Warhammer, and these videos have helped a lot in filling in the gaps.
How did Luetin get to be SO beloved between wh40k fans? He is the best, that's all.
Hope to a great new year the this awesome channel. Extremely happy that I’ve found this channel and became immersed in 40k!Proud to be part of the Luetin sleep gang as well!
The great Lore Master has blessed us with a pre Christmas video! Thank you sir! Hopefully you’ve managed to throw the Inquisition off of your trail
Never stop doing your thing Luetin, you're a master at it.
So many times I have struggled to sleep, listning to your voice, the way you talk. Has helped me fall asleep countless times. And I thank you for that
Got into 40k when I first came across your Emperor of Man lore video, got hooked and am digging trenches with my favorite regiment.
And now you bless us with this gift.
*happy gasmask noises*
Thanks for all the videos this year Leutin09, you're a talented creator and your insights into WH40K are thought provoking. I am suspicious regarding your lack of content on our brave, noble, great commissar Ciaphas Cain. But, I'm sure you have your reasons.
Blessed emperor, the lore-master bestows his 91 minute long Sanguinala gift upon us!
*gasmask in*
*gasmask out*
A great big thank you for providing these in-depth and thoughtful glimpses into the background and lore of the grimdarkness of the 41st millennium.
Also, my new headcanon is now that like the Pyro from Team Fortress 2, the Kriegsters are actually entirely unhinged and delusional, envisioning themselves gleefully prancing amidst unicorns and rainbows while casually lopping off heads with an entrenching tool or immolating trenches full of "traitorous rebels" guilty of the sin of wanting a better life for themselves and their childrens' children. You can't convince me otherwise anymore.
The Doge Vandire bit at the end, Adeptus Ridiculous has officially become headcanon LMAO.
Great video Luetin!
I have only recently entered the depressing world of 40K and I love it already.
So far, my favorite factions are the Imperium and the Korps.
I love the imperium because, well, it’s the imperium. Need I explain?
And for the Korps? I love them because they seem less like an advanced space army and more like the what 40K is as a whole. Like you said, the Korps are seen as the embodiment of 40K or something like that. I love their tank designs, their uniforms, their weapons, and their lore. (Thx for explaining their lore btw!)
Those leg wraps are called Puttees and they originally was to prevent the pant leg openings from catching and so tripping, and ripping the trousers, on barb wire, wire post, and rocks, ect ect ect.. I do WWI reenactments so the Death Corps has the strongest connection with me in the 40K universe.
Don't forget providing ankle support on the march, to keep the top of the boots sealed, and even provide rudimentary water resistance for the foot
I discovered this channel just a few months ago, and I'm absolutely loving it. Thank you so much for your hard work, and I hope you have a happy holidays \o/
Thank you lore master, for your stories ease my pains while I carry on my duties for the Emperor
I believe that the vitae wombs function as follows:
Growing a new soldier requires essentially three parts - an egg, a sperm cell and an environment to grow the embryo in. Krieg grows the eggs and sperm cell synthetically, likely with the aid of Greel, to be genetic clones of Jurten. These are then fertilized in vitro and implanted into the vitae womb, which is a purely mechanical construct, providing the embryo with the correct temperature, nourishment and most importantly, the enzymes to accelerate growth.
The idea is that this completely eliminates the need for actual pregnancy and can be scaled to industrious levels. Each vitae womb would thus be able to "birth" one soldier in around one month. A downside of the vitae womb, and why it's generally frowned upon, is the fact that this accelerated growth can lead to embryos simply ceasing to function, similar to how some aspiring Astartes do not surivive the process of having their new organs implanted.
Furthermore, soldiers birthed from vitae wombs are sterile and completely unable to reproduce naturally. Thus, vitae wombs actually pose a threat to the continuation of humanity, not through destruction, but through the fact that each soldier birthed from a vitae womb is by definition the last of his artifical bloodline. They're in a sense artificial humans, designed only to fight and die. This would also explain why Krieg soldiers have no problem throwing their life away, because they have no future.
All of this is of course pure speculation, but it would explain why the Imperium isn't really keen on using them. Not because of some moral issue, but because it quite literally threatens humanity.
I am no 40K crack by any means or even deeply involved into the lore by any metric. It seems every time I listen to a 40K lore video I only scratched the surface. I find it amusing that the Imperium with all their countless violations of ethics and morals they single that one instance of vitae wombs out. But your educated guess with the important detail of infertility is the best and most believable so far (from the few hot takes I have read here in the comments) and why this seemingly hypocritical stance makes sense and is absolutely logical. At the very least, when you reduce it to a single argument that speaks for the Imperium's reasoning, at its core the aversion of this technology is driven purely by the survival instinct and thus survival of mankind. The connotation of egoism or should I say lack of selflessness within this argument of "ethics" makes it even more believable.
But at the very end it's all for the Emperor, so altruism and sacrifice is implied, right? 😉
I mean, if humanity ceases to reproduce and exist, then the Chaos/Demons win the war, essentially. So yeah, makes sense.
In one of the books is told that most of the population inside the hives are pregnant woman
The best thing about Luetin's videos is that he presents 40k lore in a proffesional and serious manner, a lot of other popular 40k lore video creators make the lore into a silly joke, making fun of the lore more than presenting it.
Perfect timing, hoping to start a Krieg Kill Team for Christmas and this video and the audiobooks are just what I needed. Great work as always Luetin, happy holidays!
This isn't ever ASMR because it's too awesome to fall asleep to.
Dude I just started looking into these guys yesterday perfect timing!
You have been one of my favorite 40K commentators. I make sure to watch your videos because you provide good content and lore explanation. I really appreciate that you are willing to speculate, while exclaiming it to be so, and clarifying whit is cannon, and what is not. What would 40K be without everyone having their own read on it?
Simultaneously, I am happy to give you extra views while napping! So much other content is jarring and incoherent in a way where I wake up when it is not your video. The only downside is that I have to comb your posts' so I do not nap through good new content and mistake it as old stuff.
Love all your new stuff, gladly "syndicating" your old content, LOL!!!
Thank you luetin09 for this wonderful video. The death korps of krieg is my favorite guardsmen regiment so I’m glad you finally got to make a video about them.
Youre a gem. Hope Henry has someone like you on his team 😊
Nothing relaxes me more before bedtime than a new lore video from lore master Luetin about entire regiments of borderline suicidal maniacs ,ready to die for a mummified , all powerful father figure ,who is slouching on the most expensive chair of all time . Gotta love 40k .
The Praetorian guard certainly dont get enough love, could you do a lore video on them?
Leutin my life has been rough this year. My wife and I split up and I haven't seen my son for a year. I want you to know that winding down in the evening getting lost in 50k lore videos that you make helps me forget, at least for a time, all of that. Thank you.
Best of luck, mate 😢
These videos are good for that. Keep the, in good use
It was good to see an image from the Fifth Element after all these years. Amazing video.
Praise the Omnissiah!
A 90 minute Krieg breakdown?
A nice Christmas gift, thank you Luetin!!
I imagine that kriegsmen dont all look exactly like our boy, but all have his key features. Kinda like a bunch of sons will all look similar yet lightly different.
As a German, these badass Prussian-inspired characters make me proud ha ha! Thanks for another excellent video Loremaster!
When you really look at a Krieger, the only really "German" feature of their uniform is the coal-scuttle helmet, they take a lot of inspiration from all armies on the Western Front of the Great War, and personally, I think their uniforms are most inspired by the French army, what with the blue coats and all.
@@JoetheDilo1917 All their vehicles have german names. Brunhilde, Blitz, Götterdämmerung...
Krieg= war in german
@@user-dn6oi6dt7U True, I'm just saying their actual uniforms look more French than German
@@JoetheDilo1917 mate I'm sorry but even with all the goodwill in the world just acknowledge that you're wrong here in this particular instance. From the names of the locations to the protagonists to their helmets and their military dress it is way more WW1 German than anything else.
@@mr.goldenproductions_0143 Or you could actually take a look at WW1 uniforms.
The Krieg trenchcoat is of French design, their gas mask is of English design, and their boots are of French design as well.
Even the packs they wear are more French inspired than German.
Their helmets are a mashup of the Adrien and Stahlhelm.
And this is just the infantry.
The reason the Kriegers have German names is because they're supposed to be a mashup of every WW1 army and so little of their uniform is Prussian in design that the German elements of WW1 are therefore shown through naming conventions.
I love listening to your videos when I’m doing chores around the house or as white noise when I’m sleepy and trying to sleep
A Luetin video never disapoint.
Could start an army just fom the energry from these deep dive.
Keep it up
I dont know what the universe did to line up things the way they did. But, damn I'm thankful for what you do Luten. You're singlehandedly becoming an undisputed pillar of the Warhammer 40,000 community. You're who we come to when we need to know more.
Thank you luten. You are appreciated. We see you, we hear you. We thank you.
nice, something amazing to listen to while having to work at 2am thanks, and cheers luetin
I was so happy to see a Krieg video, until I got to the end and saw Doge. Absolutely made my day, Masterpiece.
I was wondering if I was the only person who had seen that! 😄
What I love is that when you talk about this stuff you never talk about it like it’s tabletop lore we are learning. You talk about it like it’s some real shit and It makes the drama and all the craziness so much more palpable.
I find the Kriegsman incredibly relatable.
I’m a young security guard, and some days I’m so tired, exhausted, and jaded from all that I’ve seen, but I keep on fighting and drudging through 16 hour shifts just because it’s all I know.
Sometimes it feels like I’m paying for sins I never even committed, and the only reason I continue to suffer existence is because I deserve it, and only when I die does the pain end.
I wonder if anybody else feels the same, and if you do, may the Emperor protect.
It is not that serious
My brother I hope that you see this.
I’ve been where you are now.
I want you to know that you don’t have to feel like this, it doesn’t have to stay your ‘normal’.
Please, even though it might seem impossible to find the time or the money to do so, please make it a priority to find a therapist/psychologist who specialises in mens health (if that’s you) and depression and just commit to some regular sessions, even if only for the sake of me, some random UA-cam commenter haha
But really, it’s for yourself. There’s nothing to be ashamed of or anything like that, the world kinda sucks rn and it’s ok (reasonable even) to feel that. You just can’t let those feelings become you.
It might (and probably does) feel hopeless but I promise that there are professionals out there who can help you not have to feel like this.
I can promise that it does get better.
And I can promise that it’s worth it.
The emperor protects.
Bro I think you might need some help. Its in your hands but seriously, I think you should try another line of work if you can.
Some jobs can be extremely taxing and detrimental to one's mental health. I quit nursing because the ethical failings I had to witness and even participate in daily really fucked me up. I realized I can't change the work environment, only leave it to those who can handle it.
Bro, you only have one psyche and one brain, losing them for a job is not worth your salary.
Security and those fuckin shifts do that to you. I left that job a year ago, found a little village and now I work with horses kind of off the grid. If you have the chance, find something that makes you feel realized. Life is a grind, but it doesn't have to be that hard.
I can dying happy now knowing my prayers to the Emperor have been heard, Praise be they lore master 🙌
"Collateral is my favorite kind of damage!"
- Siege tank driver (secretly a deathcorp)
Most anticipated video from you yet! Thanks for doing this one dude. Plus getting some audiobooks about these epic servants of the Emperor is even better.
I've only recently got into 40K, and just wanted to say your videos have really helped me get up to speed with what can be some pretty tangled lore for a newbie! I find them fascinating! So, thanks!
Don't know literally anything about them going in, but seeing that Chad of a soldier crawling on fire to hit the bomb has me hyped.
Listened to both Krieg and Dead man walking
They are really good books and I recommend both of them. I already knew the history of Krieg generally but the book made it so much more interesting with all the nuances
Yessssss one of my favorite guard regiments, thanks Luetin!
The Emperor protects!
The shovel attacks!
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS TERRA
As someone who got into 40k heavily because of your amazing lore videos, and as a fan of the Krieg, I am beyond thankful for the work you put into this video. It's a fantastic primer to the Krieg as a faction. Thank you a ton for this gift just before the holidays.
Merry Christmas, Happy Jaunicha, Happy Kwanzaa, and a very Happy Holidays no matter which one you practice!
So the Vitae Womb is actually explained somewhat in the 2010 novel, "Dead Men Walking." A commissar assigned to a Death Korps regiment remembers when he took advantage of his position outside of the chain of command to visit Krieg while the regiment he was joining was being founded. Apart from touring the battlefields wearing a almost mythical white arm band (all hostilities must cease between the red armband youth army and blue armband youth army) he actually got to briefly walk through a part of one of the subterranean hives.
He describes being horrified from the experience. Nearly the entire population he saw was female, all in varying stages of pregnancy with emotionless faces. The population is kept heavily drugged to prevent mental an emotional breakdowns that would lower their productivity.
It's not precisely stated that that is what the Vitae Womb actually is, but it's the only description of the cities themselves that I know of.