Once the 16th had deployed to the space around Drasanic, the situation became apparent to Marhsall Keule: The planet was already in pitched warfare, it's defense force reeling from the onslaught of many vicious foes. The Adaptability of infantry was determined to be the logical choice. All fighting would be street to street or in highly unstable environments. 200,000 troops were assembled and categorized, very few armored vehicles were given to the regiment as Drasanic's surface was choked with hive cities and unforgiving plains plagued by random tectonic activity. Established in late 973.M41 to combat growing xenos activity and Chaos insurrection on Drasanic, the Regiment was commissioned as an Infantry Regiment. As with most Death Korps Regiments, the number is insignificant and has been held by many regiments until said units were destroyed and the number repurposed.
