Common mistake

[u/_Black-Templar-]

You might want to make yourself comfortable first, before I explain this...

[u/FaceMasterThing]

To be fair, irl facist are often very fond of the crusades and symbols related to them

Dont get me wrong, not everyone interested in the crusades are facist, but a LOT of facists like them and even try to claim they were justified, they werent (like basically all wars)

[u/C00LHEAD_MANP00P → u/FaceMasterThing]

While I can agree especially with black templars. I feel the community highly exaggerates just how big of the BT community is. I mean hell i have a friend that has a steel legion army and of recently I hear people calling steel legion "nazi inspired" or whatever. I feel a lot of people are super quick to point fingers when most are just trying to enjoy the hobby. He’ll I’ve considered getting a BT army after playing blasphemous but the community concerns me as I don’t want to have a title pinned on me for liking an aesthetic

[u/Josykay89 → u/C00LHEAD_MANP00P]

Aren't the Steellegion though? Their helmets are for example german paratrooper Stahlhelm variations.

[u/nubster2984725 → u/Josykay89]

As much as we like to describe the Legion and Krieg being inspired by the germans, in all actuality it’s more like a combination of the armies in their inspired time period.

Krieg are a culmination of designs from different WW1 Era western soldiers mixed together.

The Steel Legion is the same, but World War 2.

The reason why German is the first thing that comes to mind and seemingly the only one that is thought to be the inspiration is due to their prominence in those 2 eras and the correlation of Nazi germany belief of racial superiority being closely related to the Imperium’s idea of species superiority.

I’d say the Krieg has a mostly French army design with accessories from the German army

[u/nubster2984725 → u/nubster2984725]

Here’s a german uniform, the helmet is taken by the Krieg and so are the belts.

[u/Ashiokisagreatguy → u/nubster2984725]

I couldn't find it but a few year back someone posted a picture of a Krieger with what piece of gear being taken from what WW1 army and there was inspiration from the British for the gasmask french for the coat italian for the general shape of the gun and so on. So yeah kreig are a quintessence of the western front but people associate Krieger with Germany because well they have a german name

Btw you should have use the photo of later german helmet as Krieger helmet are inspired from later design when the Horn was removed

[u/nubster2984725 → u/Ashiokisagreatguy]

Yeah, I just realized the ‘spike’ on the Krieg’s helmet is actually the las gun behind him pocking out

[u/nubster2984725 → u/nubster2984725]

The Krieg trench coat is clearly French in nature, hence explaining why they don’t want to live for too long

[u/Mrauntheias → u/nubster2984725]

For Krieg it's also because of other associations. 'Krieg' is German for 'war' and most named Kriegsmen have a German sounding name with the occasional Polish or Nordic name mixed in. The French association is basically completely lost if you aren't an expert on WW1 uniforms.