Plastic Death Korps of Krieg miniatures, box contents, and key kits (infantry, riders, and more) with the latest 2025 dates and notes.
After years of resin-only kits and limited Forge World runs, the Death Korps of Krieg range is now (mostly) full plastic. The practical difference is real: plastic sprues mean cleaner cuts, no warped resin to straighten in hot water, and mold lines you can actually scrape instead of fight. If you’ve been holding onto old resin Krieg, these are the kits to build from here on.
Here’s what this covers: the Army Launch Box and everything in it, the standalone kits that landed outside the box, the Astra Militarum codex, the Combat Patrol, and the wave release dates.
Confirmed New Models for Death Korps of Krieg 2025 Release:
Here’s a quick reference for all the new Death Korps of Krieg models:
- Death Korps of Krieg Army Launch Box Set is complete with an alternative art codex cover and new models.
- Death Korps Infantry Squad (confirmed to be a variant of the Kill Team release)
- Plastic Death Riders (cavalry units)
- Command HQ Squad (featuring a new banner bearer)
- Engineers/Sappers (minefield deployment specialists)
- Heavy Weapons Teams
- Artillery Team
- Character Model (Lord Marshal Varnan Dreir)
- New Combat Patrol for Astra Militarum
Release timeline: the first batch of kits went up January 25, 2025, and the second batch followed February 22, 2025.
Inside the New Krieg Army Launch Box
Updated on July 31, 2026 by Rob Baer with the latest 2025 wave dates and the full plastic Krieg kit list. Current pre-order pricing is here.
The models in this box are new plastic redesigns, not straight resculpts of the old resin. That means multi-part assembly with build options on the infantry, separate heads and arms for posing, and standard slotted bases, so there’s real room to kitbash and convert instead of gluing a fixed pose together.
Here’s what you get:
- 10x Death Riders of Krieg
- 5x Combat Engineers
- 1x Artillery Team
- 1x Lord Marshal Varnan Dreir
- Astra Militarum Codex with exclusive Krieg cover
- Datacards for quick tabletop reference
Who’s this box for? It’s the fastest way onto plastic Krieg if you’re starting the army fresh or replacing a resin force, since it bundles the Death Riders, engineers, artillery, and the named character with the codex in one drop.
For sprue close-ups and a full build-along, our unboxing and build article goes through the army set kit by kit. If you’d rather watch someone cut and clean the sprues first, Winters Seo has a solid runthrough.
For the full reveal with every model shown, our DKoK Army Box breakdown has the complete rundown.
The Big Win: Death Riders in Plastic
The plastic Death Riders are the headline fix. Where the old resin cavalry had fragile legs and bendy lances, these go together as a straightforward multi-part build: the horse in halves, separate riders, and lascarbines, trench claws, and heads you can mix across the squad for pose variety. Seams mostly fall along the barding and natural panel lines, so cleanup is quick. On the table, they’re a fast cavalry built to cross the board and hit.
Artillery and Engineers Bring the Boom
The artillery team is a multi-crew kit, the gun plus its handlers, and it builds as indirect fire. That makes it the piece you park on a back objective to shell targets you can’t draw a line of sight to, and the crew poses make it a natural centerpiece for a trench-line diorama.
The combat engineers come with shotguns, flamers, and demolition gear, which points them at close-range objective work: clearing a screen or holding a midfield ruin. They’re the kit to reach for when you want a forward unit that does something other than stand and shoot.
Lord Marshal Varnan Dreir Means Business
Lord Marshal Varnan Dreir is the box’s centerpiece: a mounted commander with a raised saber and a heavily detailed greatcoat-and-mask silhouette that reads well from across the table. He’s the obvious model to spend your best painting time on.
New Releases Outside the Box
If you needed to buff up your forces more, wave two brought some great options:
- Command Squad: Veteran officers, commissar, banner, servo-skull.
- Heavy Weapons Squad: Autocannons, mortars, lascannons, heavy flamers; you name it. The Krieg 40k models here are built to support your infantry blocks in style.
These weren’t in the Krieg army set, so grab them if you want to round out your force. They’re vital pieces for any full-size Krieg miniatures collection.
Combat Patrol: Draeden’s Lance Hits Hard
If you’re expanding past the core Krieg kits, Draeden’s Lance is the Astra Militarum Combat Patrol that pairs with them. It’s mostly non-Krieg, Attilan Rough Riders and Kasrkin alongside a Command Squad, so treat it as allied support rather than more Krieg. The piece that matters for every Krieg buyer is what it shares with the army box: the Codex: Astra Militarum, the 168-page book with the datasheets and detachments your Krieg models actually run on.
Where to Buy the New Krieg Models
Most of these kits are on shelves now. The full store directory is behind the button above, but if you want three quick options: Amazon and Noble Knight Games in the US, and Element Games in the UK. Full disclosure: some of these are affiliate links, so a qualifying purchase helps keep the site running at no extra cost to you.
Are the Knockoffs Worth It?
So are the third-party Krieg alternatives worth it? Here’s the quick decision framework. If you’re building a whole army on a tight budget and every model will be a knockoff, they hold up fine, the detail is passable, and they paint up okay. Where they fall down is scale: most run smaller than GW’s plastic Krieg, so dropping them into the same squads leaves the unit looking mismatched. If you do mix, keep the third-party models in their own units and lift them on the base with a little cork or plasticard under the feet to close the height gap. For a display army or anything you care about matching, stick with the GW kits.
Painting the Death Korps: Trench Coats and Gas Masks
The Krieg scheme rewards a few specific moves. For the greatcoats, start dark and build up thin edge highlights along the folds so the coat reads as heavy wool instead of flat grey. The gas-mask lenses are the easy focal point; a small dot of green or amber with a white pin-prick catches the eye against all that drab. And a light drybrush or sponge of dust up the boots and hems sells the trench-warfare look fast. When you want the full step-by-step, our Death Riders painting tutorial and infantry walkthrough cover both.
Final Thoughts on the New Krieg 2025 Range
So who should buy what? If you’re a collector or starting Krieg from scratch, the Army Launch Box is the single best pickup, the models plus the codex in one go. If you already play Guard and just want the new plastic, grab the Death Riders and the Heavy Weapons Squad as standalone kits and skip the doubles. And if you’re mainly here to paint, the character and the Death Riders are the show-off pieces worth your best brushwork. Either way, the resin era is over, and that’s a straight upgrade for the army.
Want the price-versus-contents math before you buy? Our DKoK Army Box: Contents vs Value breakdown has the sprue-by-sprue pictures and the cost comparison.
Which new plastic Krieg kit is going on your table first?
