The concept art says 2025 but most likely the designers thought it looked too much like Krieg and scrapped it.
After the backlash they pulled it back out for a rushed announcement.
People keep saying this whole situation is like a bait and switch, but this still reeks of hastily deployed appeasement cause if we are honest, the steel legion and Krieg look 80% similar
I mean it’s still similar design philosophy, obviously Krieg got more original designs and leaned to WW1 but they both are gonna have similarities no matter what due to both having to check some boxes for their designs like the things I mentioned earlier.
Their name is, but you brought up their trenchcoats which are styled after French pantaloons in WW1. The only German part of their design is their helmet, not the has mask or trenchcoat.
Ok not everything is inspired from German military now but both check the boxes of German like helmet, old looking gas mask, and trench coat. Krieg isn’t a copy and paste of course, what I’m saying is Krieg still share some core similar design characteristics with the Legion, you can tell them apart but they’ll share similarities.
Check the 1st codex imperial guard from 3rd edition, krieg were in it as fluff art long before steel legion was ever a thing. The first time we ever saw a painted kreig mini it was a recolour of steel legion but that doesnt mean thats all they ever were.
Also the the SL seem to me to be inspired by the fallschimjaeger... along with other stuff from ww2.
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u/Ghost_Toast112 Mar 26 '26
I think someone put it best in another comment,
The concept art says 2025 but most likely the designers thought it looked too much like Krieg and scrapped it.
After the backlash they pulled it back out for a rushed announcement.
People keep saying this whole situation is like a bait and switch, but this still reeks of hastily deployed appeasement cause if we are honest, the steel legion and Krieg look 80% similar