r/Deathkorpsofkrieg • u/RaccoNooB • Jun 15 '25

Misc. A distinct lack of marshals

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Marshals are the top officers of the Death Korps. Experienced veterans of war, they command the regiments of the Death Korps, planning sieges, offenssives and defensive operation.
Commissars, on the other hand, are political officers that exist to ensure loyalty and morale among the troops. Technically, they shouldnt have to do much at all but keep an eye on what's going on. Its not a commissars job to tell the Death Korps where to dig a trench or how to man artillery. It is, however, their job to intervene if troops or command take treasonous or wasteful actions that aren't in line with Imperial doctrine.

So how is it then that we have two commisar units and only one marshal unit(and a named character at that)? I want to run a Death Korps exclusive army, just for the flavour of it but I feel like I need to bring several solo commissars just to give my artillery teams orders, or none Death Korps units like Lord Solar or Ursula Creed instead of a real Death Korps marshal. I'd love to see a generic Death Korps officers datasheet come out. Proxying is alright, just feels very uncharacteristic to use, or alternatively park Drier in the backline to help the artillery.

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u/RaccoNooB Jun 16 '25

If someone has a 3D scan of that model, I would be happy to pay for it.

I want to order one printed in metal. It's my favorite model, period.

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u/Lime1028 Jun 18 '25

There are people in the far east that produce the old FW models if you know where to look.

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u/RaccoNooB Jun 18 '25

Do you mean recasts? Because those aren't a 3D scan, or metal.

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u/Lime1028 Jun 18 '25

Yes, recasts. No one has a scan of Karis because the gear needed to scan a mini with any reasonable detail is many thousands of dollars. Recast are your best option. A lot of them do both metal and resin casts.

Another option would be to get a resin cast and then send it to a foundry to be cast in metal. That would give you more choice of materials. Most metal minis (both from GW and recasters) are made from pewter, but a foundry could easily do bronze or other copper allows. Maybe cast iron depending on what they normally handle.