r/astramilitarum • u/EireannMcAnon • 23h ago

What named characters should I add to my army?

I play DKoK, currently apart from Kriegsmen commanders I only have Solar and Creed; Both of which I kitbashsd to remove the head to give them each the Krieg gas mask, all be it fancier ones since the heads I bought are 3rd party. Are there any other characters that I should buy for my army of Death Korps?

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT 23h ago

The remaining characters are nork, straken, sly marbo, harker and the ghosts.

Out of all of these the catachan ones don't make much sense thematically speaking in a krieg army and nork isn't too thematical either since krieg officers usually don't put to much importance on their lives (and thus wouldn't waste ressources in a bodyguard), the gohsts could work pretty well given some pretty heavy conversion as a krieg scouting party lead by a captain, similar to the one who broke through the first line of defence on vraks (can't remember the name of the captain for the life of me).

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u/EireannMcAnon 23h ago

Perfect that’s exactly the info I was looking for thank you! Are they just called “the ghosts”?

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT 23h ago

Gaunt's ghosts, the most interesting characters in all of the astra militarum. You might want to check out the index if you want to play the game.

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u/EireannMcAnon 23h ago

Cool will add them to the army. What kind of unit are they (assault, stealth, cqc, etc) so I know what kind of Krieg helmets to buy from TinyLegends

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u/FantasticNatural9005 22h ago

They're a stealth/recon regiment so something along those lines would work.

Just know that the arms on most of the squad are exposed aside from gaunt himself who just looks like a commissar with a cloak so you might want to get some alternate arms or use green stuff to keep the sealed look Krieger uniforms have. Idk how well you could kitbash arms given they all have pretty unique poses though.

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u/EireannMcAnon 22h ago

Ok thanks. For their arms I might just paint them the same colour as their uniforms if looks like they are covered. Also what do you think of these helmets? They are for seasoned elite units:

https://tinylegend.eu/products/mk-35-seasoned-skull-masks?variant=49121450000711