• Fisk400@feddit.nu
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    7 months ago

    As a casual Warhammer enjoyer aka I read wiki lore, is the shovel special in some way or is it just a normal steel shovel?

    • SYLOH@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      Well this is a krieg 3d print I composited to have a “power shovel”.
      Power Shovels do not exist anywhere in canon lore, but there’s no lore reason a shovel cannot be made into a power weapon.

      A normal shovel is a meme regarding Krieg. It does not have much basis in lore.
      Krieg were famous for trench warfare. Trenches are dug with shovels. Memes about them fighting with shovels ensued.

      I decided to take the gag a step further, by printing and painting power shovels for all the power weapons in my army.

      In my homebrew lore, they’re from a planet that specialized in ship breaking, and they first used power shovels to dig furrows in adamantium prows so they could be broken and re-processed.

    • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      no nothing special about it.
      the Krieg and their shovels are just a huge meme in the comunity.

      there is afaik nothing in the lore about their shovels.

      the krieg are based on for ww1 trench warfare.
      and aparently it was a common practice (or at least often depicted)
      to use sharpend entrenching tools as an improvised meelee weapon