Death guard culture influence

[Demus Ragnok]

 

I keep forgetting that the natural oceans are gone...

I keep trying to forget.

 

How can the planet survive without water?

 

Though I'm sure in one of the shorts they mention some small oceans, like the very middle of the Atlantic.

By capturing passing comets. I swear that was in some old fluff somewhere.

[Durfast Spiritwolf]

Death Guard use Kukri, so I think that lends more evidence to the British Isles. Hasnt the British Army adopted the Kukri in the same way the US Army has adopted the tomahawk?

Apart from members of the Brigade of Gurkhas (Nepalese and British) and the odd individual, usually someone who has served with them, the kukri isn't in widespread use in the British Army.

 

As an aside, physical descriptions of Barbarus (less the poisoned clouds) are not dissimilar to Nepal :)

 

Edit. Note the fluff speaks of the 'natural oceans' being gone. That is not to say there are not manufactured ones.

[GhostMalone]

Or plants that remove moisture from the putter atmosphere or use reverse osmosis to create liquids.

 

After all it's simply mixing hydrogen and oxygen

[Marshal Rohr]

Ah, I hadn't made the connection the Kukhra was native to Barbarus :( oh well.

 

 

 

 

I'm still making chain tomahawks :P

[Durfast Spiritwolf]

If it's of interest, a historical minis company called Gripping Beast make kukris to suit 28mm figures :)

[recon0321]

Isn't culture related but has anyone used typhus corrosion on their death guard?

[Durfast Spiritwolf]

I gave the (brass) metal work on mine a green wash. Nothing too strong.

[Marshal Rohr]

The brass looks good with that green wash mixed with the purple one. The green has a name that starts with C iirc.

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Coelia greenshade?

 

Have tested typhus corrosion on leadbelcher to use on my destroyers, the closest I have ever been to chem-scorched armour.

[recon0321]

@ Barbbas Sogalon do you have any pictures of your destroyers?

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Sorry, no pics. It was on a test piece (old plastic torso and legs) that I threw after use. I might churn up a new one in a few weeks so you can see.

[DuskRaider]

I used Typhus Corrosion on my Proteus. If you mash Ryza Rust into the nooks and crannies of tanks treads and give it some of the Corrosion (watered down), it looks really good. I pretty much lathered it on things like the engine, however. Makes it look really gritty.

[Bored_Astartes]

 

Hang on a minute....

All this talk of 30/40k Death Guard from the UK makes me confused, I thought Orks came from there?!?!?!

Orks come from a very small portion of Albia that the Legion drives generally avoided.

 

Generally.

And that's why we have White Scars, children. Wait...

[Bored_Astartes]

Isn't culture related but has anyone used typhus corrosion on their death guard?

I have on the feet and base. Gives it a nice, gritty feel. 

[depthcharge12]

Haha you guys from other parts of the states would have a hard time keeping up with us in chi town.

 

 

We speak really fast and everything is curt and to the point. Very business oriented.

 

 

Crap if you couldn't tell when I said you guys....it's very Midwest....

 

 

 

 

I wonder about where Shabran white eyes darr lived in. He was a world eater but had gray skin and white eyes...weird

[Legatus]

I don't know where Black Library or Forgeworld are currently trying to place the Death Gzard, but the earlier plague marine models were clearly meant to invoke visions of WW1 style chemical warfare. Most notably by giving pretty much every plageu marine a "pickelhaube" style helmet spike. Based on that theme, WW1 era style german names (perhaps specifically prussian or east prussian names) might fit the Death Guard personell. But if you consider their theme to be "WW1 gas warfare" in general, and not just "germans during the WW1 gas warfare", then throwing in som eold british or french names might work too.

 

I found a page with a few east prussian names, and one with some prussian surnames. The names could be taken either directly, or slightly modified to remove some of the funnier endings or make them sound more impressive. E.g. "Berthul" or even "Berthuul" instead of "Bertulis".

 

Some names could be: Ansas, Berthul*, Brone, Cilas, Prenkas.

 

Some of the surnames used as names could be: Bulkhe*, Barch, Barckman*, Berunghul*, Boltz, Boor, Bosch, Braun, Bruck*, Kuenrath*, Cuelen, Dahl, Dragen, Druge*. Voth*, Grykhe*. Gohde*, Graw, Guhr, Heyd, Holst, Jort, Kettler, Kampen, Kerber, Kruger*, Kulln*, Prohl, Rakau, Rhath*, Rehl, Rohge*, Scheer, Tgart, Unger, Unrau.

 

*Names with an asterisk have been slightly modified.

 

 

Note, the Imperial Fists also have a certain prussian theme, though more based on the ideal of the noble prussian soldier/officier, whereas the Death Guard has the specific theme of chemical warfare.

[Durfast Spiritwolf]

Spiked helms wasn't just a Prussian/German thing. Indeed it was probably originally a copy of a Russian helmet. So pith and service helmets routinely had spikes on top across nineteenth century Europe and beyond. See the Royal Marine version for an obvious non-German modern example.

[Kais Klip]

I agree with Durfast and disagree on Legatus' german point. The Imperial Fists are the clear inheritors of the Prussian/early german traits and simply by that fact it makes little sense to pin germanic traits onto the Death Guard as well. There is also the lack of a distinct link between chemical weapons used in warfare and germany, at least any link that stands above any other country. The Steel Legion imperial guard are definitely an inspiration from first and Second World War era germany, but the early models of the death guard seem like a deviation for me, and looking at the more recent models a deviation that can be comfortably discarded from memory.

[Legatus]

 

There is also the lack of a distinct link between chemical weapons used in warfare and germany, at least any link that stands above any other country.

 

As far as I am aware, it was mostly germany, france and brittain who engaged in gas warfare during the first world war.

[Kais Klip]

Right, and with any other time period there was a similar amount of users. There's no "chemical warfare land" like there is "chemical warfare legion".

[Legatus]

Gas Mask and helmet spike is rather specific. It evokes images of WW1 era gas warfare. Descriptions of the WW1 era gas warfare almost exclusively mention it's use by france and germany. It's not really a case of "could be any nation". You might be able to find recorded incidents of where different nations used gas weapons in this skirmish or that, but in a game that heavily draws on popular military history, WW1 gas warfare between france and germany is the obvious inspiration.