Shovel

“

If I have to crack some skulls, I will. Click to listen — The Soldier

”

The Shovel is the stock melee weapon of the Soldier class. It is depicted as a handheld folding Shovel, also known as an Entrenching Tool or Spade. Significant features include a splintered handle.

Dealing significant damage, the Shovel is a good alternative to the Shotgun when an opponent is too close to safely use the Rocket Launcher. For its Critical hit animation, the Soldier swings it from the left in a backhand motion.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical hit: 195

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

Trench Warfare Kill your nemesis with a shovel.

Trivia

• The Critical hit animation is the same manner of attack the Soldier uses to take out the Spy in Meet the Soldier.
• In the World Wars, standard-issue knives and bayonets were sometimes substituted or even replaced by sharpened field shovels, which were used to great effect as improvised hand axes. Curiously, the Soldier's tool seems unmodified.
• The tool's real-life counterpart is the US M-1943 entrenching tool.
• According to the Mac update comic (not actual gameplay and non-canon), The Soldier's Shovel is highly flammable and will spontaneously catch fire as it is made by Mann Co.

Gallery

• Shovel 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

See also

• Shovel strategy