Siege of Vraks
Where to Start?
Back in 2007 Forge World released the first of three books that followed the Siege of Vraks campaign. I was hooked by the WW1 imagery of the Death Korps of Kreig trying to retake the armoury world from Chaos militia. Like all good trench wars it’s bogged down in attrition and a war that a bunch of Space Marines might end in days takes years. Knowing full well that it would be very expensive to collect a Forge World army it’s taken me some time to collect the forces I currently have. But starting with the infantry was as good a place as any.
The book that started it all for meI started a decade ago with my first infantry squad and got painting what was unfamiliar resin at the time. The book had some great colour schemes for various regiments. I thought black might not look to great so went for more earthy colours for the trench coats. I went for a blue grey for the helmets as a nod to ww1 French. With a bit of wire and greenstuff on the base I was pleased with the results. I found the lasguns very fiddly and a couple have snapped along with their bayonets. I do love the poses though, running across no mans land, storming the enemy lines.
Colour scheme ideas
I love FW’s Imperial Armour range as it brings the “Real” 40k out for me, with proper storylines and full backgrounds around a specific event, and the DKoK are an awesome range of minis that really bring the Imperial Guard to life. I’ve spent a bit over the last few months on ebay getting a few of the books that I was missing.
I may or may not add some DKoK to my Fall of Orpheus-themed Minotaurs one day (not a great fan of 8th Ed, but still have a 13k Minotaurs army to use somewhere!)
You can pick up the updated rules for the kreig with out getting any of the out of date books but they are still good for the background information. As you say they are great for story lines that the update books are missing.
I’ve got all the “old” IA books now having managed to grab the missing few. I picked up the new rules when they were released but I just find 8th completely underwhelming so if I do eventually grab some DKoK they’ll more than likely be as a modelling project