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)
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)