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A community dedicated to the universe of Warhammer 40k, a tabletop setting in the far, distant future.

This is a general community for 40k miniatures, art, lore discussion, and gameplay discussion.

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Any Krieg officer who goes into action without his shovel is improperly dressed. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's just their preferred type of weaponry that made its way (through memes) into the lore. Exactly as @[email protected] 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)