Death Korps Of Krieg Engineers! The Brutal Shovel Swinging Backbone Of Any Siege! Warhammer 40k Lore 

Engi boys always have humour

Just to add to that. They infact change the geography. That's how much explosives they used and that lake. Yes that lake people fully believe it's haunted.

@@ninjawarroir9876 considering some of the stuff you read about that horror of a gaping maw of war that ww1 trench areas was... hard not to see why people think that. i heard so much crap was used you more or lees still have a judge dread worthy map of ''yellow and red no go zones'' along patches of the former trench lines even to this day as heavy metals and various volatile chemicals is still simmering in very fragile 'stable' pockets among potential un-detonated unknown grenades etc :/

Ha i gor the reference

@@WarDogMadness The funny thing is that would be even more insulting. "We have a snooty new commander, whatever, they don't understand Sacrifice." vs "Dis motherfucker eatin' beans and making a mockery of our faith."

@@WarDogMadness no it will be 2 shovels before a watchmaster shouts out "what are all you bastards doing, watching the marshal dig the whole trench line by himself? GET TO WORK, SACRAFICE YOUR SWEAT FOR KRIEG!"

@@WarDogMadness Krieg officers don't get shot by their own men. To be a Krieg officer you have already survived many, many battles as a standard trooper. Krieg officers have a high death rate because they can't help jumping back into battles and leading from the very front.

Ork: 'Ow I 'posed to murdur dis hummie? Bigger Ork: Use dakka. Dat don't work, *USE MOAR DAKKA*!

I would say both depending on the cause. Rock leads to delay, water leads to degradation

Good point. Solid rock can be annoying, but you can crush it in the end. Water always comes back, always finds a way and always wins. Also, when I think about it, water has this special ability to change its annoying qualitities due to what you don't expect and what is causing the biggest inconvenience. Summer: It will underwash your constructions, sluice out small gaps until they are massive cavities, cause mould and rot, soaks your wardrobe and gear and create a damp climate perfect for all kinds of annoying and dangerous pests. Winter: All of the above minus the pests. Also, it will now flow into small cracks and then freeze, thus destroying your constructions even more efficiently. In the form of ice, it will jam your weapons and vehicles, makes everything and everyone slip and even occasionally impales people in the form of icicles. Also, it will now soak your uniform and then freeze, making your uniform as hard as a board. Also, it will form little ice balls between your toes. And while the ground is too soaky to properly dig in the summer, it now becomes too hard. Except of course the planet decides to send a couple of days of thaw, then it turns everything into half-frozen mud until it freezes again. Almost sounds like Nurgle's or Tzeentch's invention, if you ask me. Well, maybe minus the killing icicles, I guess those are Khorns doing.

I agree water is by far the biggest problem. It feels I've spent half my life trying to control water ingress.cheers.ta.

@@Furzkampfbomber your points are not wrong, but those will be problems no matter what you do since rain falls down. Fairly easily managed actually. The big problem is if your idiot commander decides to push some lines into that lovely wide spot over yonder with all those wonderful firing lines, but he's not an engineer, so he doesn't realize that not only is it a nice wide spot but also slightly lower in grade than the surrounding area which means anything remotely resembling rain will drain hundreds of acres of runoff directly into those canal... er, trenches. So not only is the corps digging defensive trenches, but now they have to go out again and dig diversion ditches and detention basins.

Pipeline surveyor myself. I got PTSD flashbacks when Arch talked about the mud. Half of the job was surveying the water drainage both from and to the pipeline. You gotta deal with the water.... Obviously the Death Corp would know _exactly_ what to do with the little Environmental Karen Cultists... Lucky them.

Import my friend they import the shovels, and they buy them by the megaton

While supplies last, of course.

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Commissar: We must fix bayonets... Krieger: Yes! Commissar: ...because they're broken. Krieger: *Sad gasmask noises*

@@jasonreed1631 Spaten frei!

It’s like sex, the longer you have to wait the better it feels when you finally do it.

Enemy tears

There's also "The war beneath" on Netflix about the same thing. And there was an amazing couple of issues of "Charlie's war" dealing with the Messines mines.

The music in it was also really good. Love watching that movie.

It is a good film

Mining and countermining has been an extensive part of siege warfare, even before firearms were regularly used.

@@Marinealver correct. However in WWI it changed dramatically. The Western Front was basically a giant mud pit which was caused by a lot of water, water flows down and pre WWI extensive tunneling works isn't possible. However with the invention of automatic pumps the water could be kept out and the tunnels used properly. Tunneling the way Krieg does it is essentially based on 1916-1917 Western Front tunnel warfare.

Since the days of the Roman's you boys have been the bridge that allows armies to continue their advance. It's an important thing to have in the lore

@@valmarnecroa6021 ya many settings like Halo and Starwars just ignore those things or hand wave them away which I find annoying. The Engineering is how Rome became so successful and militarily powerful.

@@eichler721 Probably because logistics in any measure are really easy to screw up and leave people unsatisfied as well as bored. Don’t get me wrong, figuring out where to put stuff, how to put it there, how much to put there, when it will get there, and so on are interesting to me and a lot of people. But you have to consider battles fit into minutes, logistics fits into days at best. Easier to keep people’s attention spans on the poking of things.

@@cryamistellimek9184 ya the casual players and lore people don't care its all about the battles. However the people who deep dive into the settings care and can't get enough.

@@cryamistellimek9184 You should play Foxhole if that sort of things interests you. You can spend all your time crafting and running materiel to the front if you want, but you gotta watch out for partisans ambushing you and stealing your shit for the other side or just killing you, hijacking your truck, and driving into a river. It can range from very relaxing to hectic as fuck because good players on the enemy team *will* hunt you down to keep you from resupplying your allies with ammo, bandages, etc. Basically all weapons, consumables, vehicles, ammo, even respawn tokens for your team are player made, and have to be delivered to the front. All of this takes place over a persistent war that lasts for weeks on a massive map. There are clans of hundreds of people dedicated to doing logi as efficiently as possible. And that really does win wars in that game.

I would expect power armor to have least some sound dampening built in, to prevent user feeling like his stuffed into empty oil barrel that people are hammering with shovels. Krieg better hope they wont come across noise marines, they would probably enjoys that experience....

@@Hellsong89 Yeah _that's kinda the point of the joke._ A space marine's extremely damage-resistant hearing getting absolutely torn to hell even through noise-cancelling power armor because that's just how much BONK/meter+second they have to face in Krieg trenches.

The re shoveling

Indeed long live arch warhammer

I think some of ( depends on the pattern ) the chaplains

I was trying to figure out what the hell I was looking at in that picture. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about the Ogryn.

I thought he was slamming something into the wall.

Imagine if any guys came after you to fill that foxhole. Jumps in and just absolutely disappears.

- and now raise the stakes and bars to 11 with steroids, thats Dkok haha

The Death Corps of Kreig are indeed based on the WW1 germans and indeed they had mastered the art of trench building. The movie 1917 shows this clearly when the protagonists reached the abandoned german trench and bunker complex.

@@michaelpettersson4919 not just Germans, it’s a combination of Germans, Frenchmen and the Russians that participated in the attack of the dead men.

@@JonyTony2018 The "Attack of the dead men" are about a germany vs russia battle on the eastern front. Some exceptionally stubborn russian soldiers supposed to have been killed of with poison gas actually managed to form a counter attack on the advancing getmans causing panic due to the russians essentially looking like undead and indeed they where severely wounded by the gas. This delayed the advance long enough for russian reinforcements to arrive. What you are talking about seem to be the general trench war on the western front.

@@michaelpettersson4919 It is also a kick ass song by Sabaton. About that very battle. Worthy of a listen if you ever have the time. ;)

As a grunt, I can confirm. Hats off brother.

I read this and my brain went to chess lol. Though I wonder which piece would symbolize engineers the best...a Rook?

@@jacthing1 The engineer would be any piece that protects the friends from the foe as well as halts the enemy advance. From the Pawn to the Queen herself can be in that position.

Am currently rewatching the Vraks series. This is truly a treat.

I wish I had your attention span. I wasn't able to make it through the series once without losing track of what was going on, let alone casually rewatch the whole thing

Ehh.. last time I re-watched the Siege of Vraks, Arch's channel poofed for several days. I'd rather not risk that happening to him again.

@@Bruva_Ayamhyt The trick is realizing the people in the story have no idea what's going on either and it's much easier to follow.

I must have watched that series 3 times now. Never gets old. Meanwhile majorkill makes a 15 minute video on the whole siege that everyone watched once and then claims is explanation was better than arch’s.

Let me introduce you to a little game called Foxhole.

Or life

@@honda6353 KEK

You'd love my politicians then

OH that incident. I like using US civil war and French-Prussian war as examples why being stuck to old way of doing things when technology improves is dumber than trying to encircle enemy with less troops, mainly due to that the latter has been done succesfully more than once.

The battle of Petersburg

thats the part of the account that absolutely floors me. after turning this fortified position into a giant fuckoff crater, they just *walk right into said fuckoff crater.*

*Happy gasmask noises*

They would just argue if they shall place more walls or trenches

@@Askethanoras A two-tone argument: Build! Dig! Build! Dig! Build! Dig!

@@TheSchultinator BOTH!

I canneven imagine a converstation with the Iron.warriors.as well.

The cardinal does not strike me as a good military leader. I doubt he even thought that far

Probably. In all honesty it is the weakest part of the story. Xaphan did have at least a few Void Vessels, because he and his Entourage were on a Pilgrimage across the Sub-sector. They ended on Vraks, so they had ships just never used them. It would be neat if Xaphan did start a small military operation on a nearby world, with the aim of acquiring more ships. But say it failed spectacularly, prompting the Assassination. There is also the matter of the assassination it’s self. Xaphan was clearly in violation of the edicts of men at arms and an Eversor Assassin would have been well justified. The Sniper was most likely to fail given the situation. I feel it was too forced. The Eversor could have been sent, killed what he believed was Xaphan. Only to realize that Xaphan had a convincing Double, and the Eversor simply couldn’t find him as by this point the guards have mobilized and killed the assassin and Eversor die in a blaze of glory an explosion like that would more easily justify the Rebellion as portrayed in the story. The people would believe that they are under attack. Just my suggestions.

Xaphan wasn’t expecting to be fighting against the Imperium. Original he was just a zealot, not a heretic. If he’s going on a crusade to cleanse the sector of heresy, why would the Inquisition have a problem with that? Of course, the Inquisition *did* have an issue with it, but by his own thinking, they shouldn’t have.

@@samdurfee6093 Being in violation of the edicts is one thing, convincing the populace of that is another. An Eversor is a very big sign that it was probably the imperium and could make him more of a martyr. A sniper could be anything, but those in the know, know. It's not just about sending a message, it's about sending the right message.

@@ottovonbearsmark8876 he broke the Edict of of the Adeptus Ministorum by directly arming his followers and organizing them into a Para Military organization. The Ordo Hereticus, their top priority is to prevent the Age of Apostasy from happening again. What Xaphan was doing is exactly what the Ordo Hereticus is designed to prevent. Xaphan was well aware and knew that if he was to have his Crusade, he’d need to deal with the Inquisition.

A similar front that they did that, with a series of underground bombs nearly the size of the first nukes, still have some chambers full of explosives where it didn't detonate... but the tunnels collapsed and digging back into those chambers may cause it to explode. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fadUMBuY7Ng.html

Employ savlar chemdogs as the tunnel warfare is suitable for them.

other regiments tend to get depressed when teamed up with the fatalistic Kriegsmen. You rather get somebody with an equally happy mindset into their trenches, like the Mortifactor chapter.

@@phreakazoith2237 Yeah, you wouldn´t want them to be stationed near them for too long

@@phreakazoith2237 How about some Chemmed up Savlar Chem Dogs to storm the tunnels with them?

@@tzimiscelord8483 the chem dogs would have been a great asset fighting alongside krieg in the vraks theater

If you play Command&Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour with the mod Rise of the Reds, you can play this way with the ECA (European Continental Army, basically a military version of the EU with a much better logo and flag). Your infantry is mediocre but they fight harder when garrisoned, you can build roadblocks that can be garrisoned bunket-style but provide only some protection from explosions and guns, while being worthless against gas, toxins, radiation or fire. You can build bunkers that are slightly better and can be upgraded with one of four: Reinforced (+Health +Armor +Protection vs Gas/Toxin/Rad/Fire) Medical (Aura of healing) Ammo Depot (Aura of +Damage to nearby infantry) Repair Depot (Aura of healing for vehicles). You can build bunkers for vehicles, which can then be garrisoned by your MBT, Mortar track or AA. You can also operate as a mobile mechanized force with artillery support. You can also build big artilleries that must be manually fired and take ages to reload, but can strike nearly anywhere in the map due to their extreme range and hit very hard. All buildings have a "Danger Close" ability that rains down artillery around them from off-map. And you can invest the points you earn by leveling up your Rank of General into extra goodies, like making all your defenses better and unlocking further upgrades for them, or requesting the deployment of minefields or autonomous turrets.

I do like space marines but sometimes it’s so boring that’s why the guard is so popular due to them being just under equipped dudes and dudets against the forces of literal hell, a galaxy eating hunger, blue communists, bdsm elf’s and happy go lucky green skins

Agreed, i have it on when gameing, or at work to make it through 12 hour night shifts. Watched it about 6 times now.

**Inquisitor raise eyebrow**

What?! No Badab war!?

@@sadwingsraging3044 Everything is fine and dander here, sir! We only ever fought Orks on Armageddon!

Give his Badab a chance, om currently relistnin’ for the 101th time

@@Askethanoras Haha, you're assuming I haven't already finished it twice ;)

He did, but they stole it.

Sad part is Krieg would lose. I love the gas mask bois but I know that Iron warriors would get plot armor.

@@kolman3178 probably, but they'd give those Warsmiths a run for their money

I love that guy

@@yanisbaker881 yeap. he's awesome

Give me link!!!!

@@sethgilcrist8088 This is the Vetern platoon leaders reaction to Arch talking about the logistics of The Death Core of Kreig, on Vraks. It's awesome for nurdy military reality details. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1smocqwB0KY.html

@@davidodonovan1699 awesome thanks

That's a big oof right there.

Hey working on a book about a US Army Engineer stuck in a Sword and sorcery world. Any advice on how you'd reinforce a nation's borders if it was getting invaded by armies of demons?

@@TheEldritchGod That sounds interesting

@@TheEldritchGod first off in fantasy you have to remember the ideas of borders were vague and didn't have a literal fence. The good Engineer would realise that the way to defend a front would be through fortifications aka Castles built around roads and towns near the frontier where they could choke an Armies effort to invade by blocking roads and rivers. In the time of the siege, counter attacks could be launched by neighbor fortifications being homes to Cavalry formations while a larger army would be mustered from the heartlands. In the meantimes the Engineer would construct roads of stone able to march an army of ten columns or more. Larger bridges for logistics. Sabotaging, funneling and minimizing roads exited the realm and preparing alternative means of moving large armies. These are some ways I can think a good Sapper would advise a king defend his realm

@@darthkillhoon - One other quick question, if a tunnel collapsed and you had to come up with a cool engineer way to free those trapped inside with as little Magguffin/Dues Ex Machina as possible, assuming you were at the mouth of the tunnel and you had to get through about 50 feet of rock/dirt as soon as possible, got any suggestions? I'm having a problem resolving the cave-in on a bunch of dwarves.

@@TheEldritchGod if you can't solve with c4 hit it with an E-tool (Military Shovel). Also as a fellow writer you could turn it into a tragedy scene where you people put in so much effort into digging them out but when they get there the dwarfs had suffocated or died of thirst by the time they reach them

It's because they're not really Based on The German Army of WW1. They're Based of WW1 itself... Every Army

Yeah, the Germans threatened to execute any American caught with a shotgun or shotgun ammo; America countered by threatening to execute any German caught with a flamethrower or serrated bayonet.

@@violenceandpoetry Germans: *Burning and hacking people to death* Americans: *Suddenly appear with 'Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip' playing blasting shotguns everywhere* Germans: "Hey! That's illegal!"

The part that boggles my brain is that the guys who specialize in close-quarters fighting said, "you know what? who needs automatic fire, anyway? Let's use semi-auto rifles! Because that's what you want in point-blank trench or bunker firefights, right?" I mean did they think it would unacceptably lower their casualties?

@@Venneroth The semi-auto lasguns that the Death Korp uses, if I remember correctly, packs more punch than the usual lasgun, meaning it has better penetration and stopping power at the expense of being semi-automatic and has less shots per charge pack.

Fake news! Watch one break his shovel and see the pain of true grief and sorrow...

Eh. Be ready for covid, best of luck tho’

@@Askethanoras That's what the gas mask is for.

Space stuff in 40k is brutaly diffrent from book to book, so thats a difficult topic. (Well space battles etc)

@@Askethanoras Sure would be nice if there was some damn consistency in the space battles. In some stories, ships take massive beatings before they finally start to go down. In others you have cruisers blowing up from two or three hits.