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The Imperial Guard relief force marched through the city gates with crowds of the native inhabitants looking on. But there was little cheering or celebrating.The grim-looking army was not the angels of salvation that the people had thought they would be. Rather, they were silent, lifeless beings that spared the people not even a single glance as they marched by. The peoples faces grew nearly as dreary as the soldiers masks as they realized that their saviors were not like angels, but more like walking corpses.
But through the crowd of bleak and cheerless faces, a bright and sunny one appeared.
'Why is everyone so afraid of them,' she thought, 'when they're here to save us? We should be thankful.'
She leaned over the side and reached out to the nearest passing soldier, holding one of the summer flowers she had gathered.
'These are for someone else, but you can have one.' she said cheerfully.
The soldier hesitated for a moment, looking at the gift being presented to him, then he moved back into formation. He didn't take it, but she was sure that he wanted to.
Her grandmother frantically pulled her back and began scolding her. She didn't listen, she just put the flower back with the rest and stepped back, her smile unchanged.
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After five years it's still a good drawing.
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Well, I got here because some guys on a face book page called "Warhammer 40k quotes" shared this exact picture. I loved it enough to give it a comment. The story was great too, without being too sappy.
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Tvtropes under Heartwarming!
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... W... WHAT T-THE HELL IS THIS!?
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Not porn or anime. You wouldn't like it.
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It's also funny how you say that I don't like this because it's not anime but this "art" is done in a distinctly anime style and I don't even like anime that much. 'Just too lazy to change the pic.
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NO!
GLORY TO MANKIND! WE ARE THE MEEK AMONG THE MONSTERS! THIS JUST DEMONSTRATES IT!
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Hopefully it does.
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If I was the Commissar of that unit i'd let him keep it, any little boost to morale is good. Β
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A Krieger's Morale is always iron and unshakable.Β
They have Commissars so that they don't die /too fast/.
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They have Commissars so they don't get into fights with Non-Krieg Regiments.
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That as well but a commissar in a krieg regiment has to act as a moderator as kriegors would sacrifice themselves over a fucking penny if you could convince them it would help the god-emperor in even the most meager of ways.
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I can see him taking the flower then running off yelling "GUYS I GOT A GIRLFRIEND!"Β
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^^ thanks
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Oh god, that needs to made, he wouldn't do that though, he did already dead inside, they all are
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its to late. The shipping has allready started flowergirl with kreg cannonfodder I mean guardsman nunmber 6098452363215 or Kreg for short.
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WHAT? Where I need to ... extinguish the heresy, yeah that's it
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....oh my.......I see.....
Yes. and even though she has changed her PO box five times. she keeps getting bad poetry. and ork teeth in the male. fallowed by pictures of him. and hes one of "those" soldiers who give themselves personality. he put the flower around a band on his helmet. his commissar is pissed. But the imperial field manual states that solders are allowed to paint. attach. and create with there armor and weapons. so...he cant shoot him with out twenty more bullets in his own head.Β
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and thats how you milk a joke XD
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I dont really like the theme but I love the dark atmosphere and the uniforms.I will love to see more like this
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The true heroes are those we see through a lens of evil choices.
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Your right.
Not every Enemy is an a--hole but they are presented to you as the most evil creatures you will ever see.
The same happens to the enemy.
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People just need to know the truth. But if they knew the truth, they might not be as willing to fight.
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A wonderful work. This reminds me of the troops the 2nd world war.
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The galaxy is a terrible place, but acts like this give you hope
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They're trained not to feel.
He felt.
I'm crying.
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*insert wake me Up! Inside here *
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Perfect display of humanity that shows what every Guardsman is fighting to preserve.
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"Rather, they were silent, lifeless beings that spared the people not even a single glance as they marched by. The peoples faces grew nearly as dreary as the soldiers masks as they realized that their saviors were not like angels, but more like walking corpses."
That is an bad reason not to cheer for them.Β I mean really, what a dick move.
As for being like walking corpses, welcome to the Imperial Guard who've witnessed daemons tearing souls from their comrades and civilians turned into super zombies.Β Who've faced the chitinous tide of the Tyranids and the Orkish hordes.Β Welcome to the truth of war in the grim, darkness of the future.
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Nah, even the Cadian guardsmen may be jaded as all hell, but these are Krieg. Their world once nearly fell to chaos, but was reclaimed. So to ensure they never fail again, like Cadians, they are soldiers from childhood, but they are also trained to be more robotic mentally then a Tech Priests is physically. Some guardsman charge out of bravery or emotion, some charge out of a sense of honour and a desire to help, the Krieg charge emotionlessly out of duty. The best fluff depicts them as is as having emotion, and loving the endless meat grinder that is their existence (I hesitate to say life), but so fucking stoic that to anyone else, they wouldn't know it.
For a more humorous description, see here: 1d4chan.org/wiki/Death_Korps_oβ¦
Here is a series of stories following a Kriegsman, and good damn if it doesn't to a good job of showing the mindset of their emotionless portrayls:Β i.imgur.com/esFMLb8.png
And here is a funny one that is probably the closest a Death Korps of Krieg member can have to a normal relationship:Β 1d4chan.org/wiki/Love_and_Krieβ¦
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Seriously XD I read the comments and its kind of funny everyone these are not Krieg Soldiers the gas mask design is more towards the Armageddon Steel Legion. The Krieg soldiers are not the only group who wear gas masks the Steel Legion do as well because their planet is a hazardous ashen wasteland.
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Nope, these are not the Armageddon Steel Legion. They're Death Korps grenadiers .
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My apologies then I looked through pics and never saw the grenadier design my mistake.
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God, I love the Imperial Guard so much; Fuck the Space Marines, these armored sissies don't know shit about how wars are truly fought
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Oh the irony in your comment. x3
Yes the Imperial Guard is good, but Space Marines are literally the best, seeing as how half of the Space Marine chapters (the other half being Chaos Marine) possess genes from the original 20 primarchs, who were all the sons of the Emperor, and they're straight up bred for war in so many ways it's headspinning.
There's a reason why they wear the massive armor, because they go where the Imperial Guard normally wouldn't go.
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I bet he never so a flower before, given the kind of planet he came from.
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She was later shot by a soldier twelve men down the line for obstruction of duty...
Kriegans everyone
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It actually depends on who is in charge, if the main officer is a krieger, marine malevolent or a few like them then yes, however, most imperial commanders have enough sense to avoid damaging the Emperor's assets, and evacuate the civilians whenever possible, as the point itself of deploying land troops instead of using orbital bombardment is to take back valuable resources to the Imperium (and this includes the population, no robots or AI for you), and commissars will actually flog and shoot troopers making trouble among the planetary population, for the obvious disciplinary reasons.
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Actually that is not a Krieg Soldier the mask design is more towards the Armageddon Steel Legion vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/w⦠These guys are anti ork specialists in combat, and are pretty nasty with their armored divisions from what I remember.
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the Death Krops of Krieg grenadiers. The artist has said so to another similar comment.
Brett-Neufeld Β Jul 5, 2015 Β Β Student Digital Artist
Nope, these are not the Armageddon Steel Legion. They'reΒ Death Korps grenadiers .
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