DEATH KORPS OF KRIEG

Death Rider units are filled with soldiers that have earned the honour – a high one for any soldier of Krieg. Astride their genetically enhanced Krieg steeds, these bold cavalry riders thunder across no man's land with lances leveled and sabres drawn to crash into the foe, scattering infantry and creating gaps in the enemy line for infantry and armour to exploit.

Lord Marshal Dreir leads from the front, despite his lofty rank, and often to the horror of his superiors. That he and his loyal Krieg steed have emerged from so many battles alive and victorious speaks to his skill as both commander and cavalry soldier.

Commissar Yarrick Commissar Yarrick is one of the greatest heroes in the entire Imperium. On Armageddon, it was Yarrick who inspired the Imperial Guardsmen to prodigious acts of sacrifice and courage. Indeed, so motivated were the soldiers in Yarrick’s presence that not a single soldier was executed for cowardice, even in the face of overwhelming odds. It was at Hades Hive that Commissar Yarrick fought his hardest battle, and where he lost his right arm to the snapping battle klaw of an Ork Warboss. Fighting through pain and shock, Yarrick beheaded the Warboss and took that same klaw as his own, a symbol of his defiance against the Orks.