A month or so back I brought up the question of other forms of siege specific scenery; razorwire, mine fields, etc and why the Siege Supplement did not feature them, as I felt they very much should be included and that they were lacking without them. I was told me Krieg did not use such things:
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Hena: Krieg is an attacking army. They don't use razorwire.
E&C appeared to go along with this and did not comment on the matter further.
For a start I wondered whether Krieg really are definitionally an ‘attacking’ siege army in any meaningful way; yes overall in the Vraks and Mossino campaigns, - both against lower tech, also sieging, rebel humans - the Imperials generally are on the offensive. A load of time on Vraks is still spent with neither side really doing so though and at times the Vrakians or their demonic allies definitely go on the offensive. More generally though, attacking seems more down to the circumstances of the campaigns rather than a regimental characteristic of Krieg. Krieg regiments specifically request to be sent to ‘the worst battlefields in the galaxy’, on which basis it seems likely some are sent to the tryanic warzones. While fighting tyranids or other fast moving lethal close combat troops it seems pretty likely Krieg troops would generally adopt a more defensive style of siege warfare and place more emphasis on trying to gun/artillery the enemy apart from the trenches.
The other claim – that Krieg didn’t razorwire or minefield – I strongly suspected was inaccurate / uninformed, but I only got round to checking recently and I was indeed correct.
A selection of evidence from a quick browse through: the first Vraks book talks about there being “trenches and rusting razorwireâ€Â
