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.
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 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
It’s just their preferred type of weaponry that made its way (through memes) into the lore. Exactly as @Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de says, the Krieg (Krieg even means ‘war’ in German) are based on WW1 trench warfare and 40K has taken this to the extreme (as with everything)
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?
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.
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 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
It’s just their preferred type of weaponry that made its way (through memes) into the lore. Exactly as @Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de says, the Krieg (Krieg even means ‘war’ in German) are based on WW1 trench warfare and 40K has taken this to the extreme (as with everything)