Battalion's Backup

Battalion's Backup
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Kill Icon
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Basic Information
Used by:	Soldier
Slot:	Secondary
Contributed by:	"Larolaro" Laro Template:Dictionary/steam ids/143017694
Released:	Mann-Conomy Update
Availability:	Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate(#4), Uncrate(#15)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Medieval:	Yes
Available Qualities
Unique Strange Collector's
Loadout Stats
The Battalion's Backup 1 - 100 Provides a defensive buff that protects nearby team members from crits and blocks 35% of incoming damage. Rage increases through damage taken.

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The Battalion's Backup is a secondary weapon for the Soldier. It appears as a military backpack-mounted radio transceiver, featuring a folded map secured by a couple of straps and an attached magnetic compass. Accompanying it is a bronze-colored bugle, and a tattered yellow triangular banner that is displayed when the buff is active.

Working essentially in reverse to the Buff Banner, this weapon aims to support teams defensively rather than offensively. Once the player's Rage meter displayed in the HUD is filled through taking roughly 175 damage from other players in a single life, the pack can be used to make all nearby teammates within 450 units, and the player themselves, immune to critical hits and grant them 35% resistance to regular damage for 10 seconds. Rage cannot be gained from fall damage or self-inflicted damage, but it can be given by map effects. All forms of enemy-inflicted damage, including afterburn, give rage.

The critical damage immunity applies to criticals and mini-crits for all teammates within the radius, regardless of critical/mini-crit application method. A Scout under the buff using Crit-a-Cola, for example, suffers no negative trade off for his own mini-crits. The critical immunity also prevents all increases to knockback normally incurred by a critical hit. The damage resistance stacks multiplicatively with all other damage modifiers, such as Pain Train's hitscan weakness and Chargin' Targe's explosive resistance.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage

Damage and function times
Effect range		450 units
Damage
Charge fill damage		175
Function times
Effect duration		10 s
Activation time		3 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Self-inflicted damage from rocket jumping does not contribute to filling the Rage Meter. Drowning and taking fire damage from torches (such as in Egypt) both contribute to filling the Rage Meter.

Item set

Main article: Item sets

The Tank Buster
	Black Box Battalion's Backup Grenadier's Softcap
Effect	Leave a Calling Card on your victims

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Buff Banner		Reclaimed Metal		Battalion's Backup
	+		=

Class Token - Soldier		Slot Token - Secondary		Scrap Metal		Possible Results
	+		+		=

As a Crafting ingredient

Refined Metal		Battalion's Backup		Grenadier's Softcap
x4	+		=

Scrap Metal		Battalion's Backup		Concheror
	+		=

Related Achievements

 Soldier

Banner of Brothers Buff 5 Steam friends at once with the Buff Banner.

The Boostie Boys Buff 15 teammates with the Buff Banner in a single life.

Update history

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

• The item was added to the game.

October 6, 2010 Patch

• Soldiers no longer maintain their rage level when changing loadout.
• The Battalion's Backup no longer gives rage for falling damage.

March 15, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] The weapon was added in the crafting blueprint for the Concheror.

Bugs

• If a player activates this weapon's Rage meter and uses the Equalizer taunt, they will fall through the floor or fly backwards instead of being gibbed.
• Even after the update that fixed accumulating rage from fall damage, there are still ways to build rage that do not involve damage from enemies, such as drowning.
• If a player activates the weapon and is subsequently backstabbed, it will not register as a critical kill, but the player would still be killed.
• The Battalion's Backup protects from crits in humiliation.
• Players that, whilst deploying the weapon's buff hold down primary fire, will prevent the Soldier from releasing the trumpet and thereby ensure the buff is not activated.
• The backpack clips with the Soldier's primary weapons.
• When the bugle is equipped, it clips through the Soldier's hand.

Trivia

• The Battalion's Backup most closely resembles the US Military's Vietnam-era backpack-mounted radio transceiver, the Template:W.

Gallery

• 

  First-person view.

• 

  Backpack component.

• 

  Bugle component.

• 

  Flag component.

See also

• Battalion's Backup strategy
• Damage blocking