Soldier

Soldier
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Basic Information
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Type:	Offensive
Health:	200 / 300
Speed:	80% 80% with the Equalizer at above 80% HP. 88% with the Equalizer between 60% and 80% HP. 96% with the Equalizer between 40% and 60% HP. 112% with the Equalizer between 20% and to 40% HP. 128% with the Equalizer at 20% HP or below.
Meet the Soldier

“

I have personally killed 6,078 men in cold blood while looking them in the eye; jumped on 1,455 live grenades; and stuffed fourteen feet of my own intestine back into my stomach. If that doesn't scare you out of your frilly pink leotards, guess what: You are an idiot and you hate America. — The Soldier on real fear

”

A crazed patriot from the heart of America, the Soldier is the bread and butter general assault unit of the team. Although he's one of the easier to understand classes, he is far from the weakest. Equipped with his Rocket Launcher and 200 Health Points to spare, the Soldier is a highly versatile class for both offensive and defensive roles, and a great starter class to get familiar with the game.

The Soldier is also well known for his spectacular rocket jump. In defiance of all good sense and judgment, the Soldier can shoot a rocket at his feet to launch himself skyward at the cost of some health. This ability allows the Soldier to pop up in unexpected places and reach areas off-limits even to the Scout's double-jump.

The Soldier is voiced by Rick May.

Bio

Name: Unknown, uses the alias "Mr. Jane Doe" Location of origin: Template:W Job: Template:W Motto: "I'm a Rocket Man" Favourite World War: 2 Special ability: Rocket jump Emblems:    Description: Though he wanted desperately to fight in World War 2, the Soldier was rejected from every branch of the U.S. military. Undaunted, he bought his own ticket to Europe. After arriving and finally locating Poland, the Soldier taught himself how to load and fire a variety of weapons before embarking on a Nazi killing spree for which he was awarded several medals that he designed and made himself. His rampage ended immediately upon hearing about the end of the war in 1949.

Weapons

Main article: Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and listed at base value. See individual weapon pages for additional figures.

Primary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Rocket Launcher		4	20	Base: 90 Crit: 270
Unlock Direct Hit		4	20	Base: 112 Crit: 338	Has 80% faster rocket speed.  Deals 25% more damage.  Guarantees Mini-Crit damage on juggled opponents.  Has 70% smaller splash damage radius.
Craft Black Box		3	20	Base: 90 Crit: 270	On hit, restores 15 health points.  Has a 25% smaller clip size.
Craft Rocket Jumper		4	60	Base: 0 Crit: 0	Has 200% more ammo carried.  Makes user immune to self-inflicted explosive damage, the wearer does not need the Gunboats.  Deals no damage at all to enemies.  +100% explosive damage vulnerability on wearer  +100% bullet damage vulnerability on wearer  +100% fire damage vulnerability on wearer

Secondary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Shotgun		6	32	Base: 60 Crit: 180 [6 dmg. × 10 pellets]
Unlock Buff Banner		N/A	N/A	N/A	At 100% charge, using it grants player and nearby teammates 10 seconds of guaranteed Mini-Crits.  Charges its rage meter with damage dealt - takes 600 damage to fully charge rage meter.
Craft Gunboats		N/A	N/A	N/A	Grants 60% less self-damage by rockets, including rocket jumps. However doesn't affect fall damage.  Grants its abilities passively, does not need to be selected first to apply the ability.
Craft Battalion's Backup		N/A	N/A	N/A	At 100% charge, using it grants player and nearby teammates 10 seconds of guaranteed immunity to Critical damage and raises resistance to damage by 35%.  Charges its rage meter with damage received - takes 350 damage to fully charge.
Promotional / Craft Concheror		N/A	N/A	N/A	While the buff is active, damage dealt to the enemy heals teammates by 35%.  Charges its rage meter with damage dealt - takes 1133 damage dealt or 333 damage received to fully charge rage meter.

Melee

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Shovel		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195
Unlock Equalizer		N/A	N/A	Base: 33–113 Crit: 3× base damage.	When weapon is active:  Damage dealt and movement speed increase as user's remaining health decreases.  Deals 50% less damage when user is at full health.  Blocks healing and ÜberCharges by any friendly Medics.  Suppresses the Medic call effect while active.
Craft Pain Train		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Doubles capture power for points and carts.  Raises bullet vulnerability by 10%.
Promotional Frying Pan		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Promotional item from Left 4 Dead 2  Same as the Shovel's specs.
Promotional, Craft Half-Zatoichi		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	On kill: restores you to 100% health  This weapon is Honorbound and once drawn cannot be sheathed until it kills.  A single successful hit will kill an enemy wielding the same weapon.

Taunt Attack

	Associated item	Description	Kill Icon
	Equalizer	Main article: Kamikaze The Soldier tosses away his Equalizer, cracks his knuckles, takes a grenade off of his belt, sets it, thrusts his fist in the air, and explodes, killing himself and any nearby enemies, buildings included. Having the Rocket Jumper equipped will prevent any self-inflicted damage.

Item sets

Main article: Item sets

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

Hats

Main article: Hats

Official class avatars

Official class avatars
Original set	RED ÜberCharged set	BLU ÜberCharged set
Get TF2 avatars on Steam: Original

Achievements

Main article: Soldier achievements Soldier pack: 35 achievements, 3 milestones.

Update history

June 19, 2008 Patch (Pyro Update)

• Removed Soldier's 40% damage reduction from his own rockets. Does not affect rocket jumps

December 11, 2008 Patch

• Added smoke to the feet of a rocket jumping Soldier

May 21, 2009 Patch (Sniper vs. Spy Update)

• Added a new hat: the Soldier's Stash

August 13, 2009 Patch (Classless Update)

• Added 2 new hats: the Tyrant's Helm and the Stainless Pot
• Added a new misc: the Gentle Manne's Service Medal

August 17, 2009 Patch

• Fixed rocket jumping

December 10, 2009 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added counters to the HUDs of Demomen and Soldiers to keep count of how many of either demomen killed as soldier or soldiers killed as demoman that person has contributed to the War.

December 17, 2009 Patch (WAR! Update)

• Added 4 new weapons: the Direct Hit, the Buff Banner, the Equalizer and the Gunboats
• Added 35 new Soldier achievements
• Added new Soldier Domination lines
• Added headshot death animation
• Added backstab death animation
• [Undocumented] Added 3 new taunts, used by the Direct Hit, Shotgun and Equalizer
• [Undocumented] Added unused "Hi-five" animation

March 18, 2010 Patch (First Community Contribution Update)

• Added a new weapon: the Pain Train
• Added a new hat: the Killer's Kabuto

May 20, 2010 Patch (Second Community Contribution Update)

• Added a new hat: the Sergeant's Drill Hat

June 10, 2010 Patch (Mac Update)

• Added Training for the Soldier

August 25, 2010 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added a new hat: the Lumbricus Lid

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

• Added the Tank Buster set with 3 items: the Black Box, the Battalion's Backup and the Grenadier's Softcap
• Added 2 new weapons: the Rocket Jumper and the Frying Pan
• Added 3 new hats: the Chieftain's Challenge, the Stout Shako and the Dr's Dapper Topper
• [Undocumented] The Soldier's unused "Hi-five" animation was updated

October 6, 2010 Patch

• Soldiers no longer maintain their rage level when changing loadout

December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)

• Added 2 new hats: the Exquisite Rack and the Defiant Spartan

February 28, 2011 Patch

• Added a new hat: the Hero's Hachimaki

March 10, 2011 Patch (Shogun Pack)

• Added 2 new weapons: the Concheror and the Half-Zatoichi

March 15, 2011 Patch

• Fixed the Soldier/Demoman taunts not working correctly when the Half-Zatoichi is the active weapon

April 7, 2011 Patch

• Added a new hat: the Honcho's Headgear

April 28, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added a new hat: the Brain Bucket

Bugs

• If a Primary weapon is fired when the player is initially spawned into the game, a continuous loop of the reload animation can occur. This can be remedied by firing another shot or switching weapon to Secondary or Melee.
  • If the "Auto Reload" option was enabled and started reloading while taunting, the continuous loop of the reload animation will occur.

Trivia

• The Soldier has made several posts on the Official Blog, often referring to the Team Fortress 2 team as "The Powers That Be".
• The Soldier's voice actor and the Engineer's voice actor have both voiced the character Template:W from Nintendo's Template:W series: Rick May (the Soldier) in Template:W, and Grant Goodeve (the Engineer) in Template:W.
• In Poker Night at the Inventory, an image of the BLU Soldier makes a cameo as the King card for the black suits (spades and clubs) in the "Team Fortress 2" card deck.
• Template:W served as the first BLU team Soldier.
• In Worms: Reloaded, the Soldier's helmet appears as one of the hats selectable for the player's worms.
• The Soldier's beta emblem was a helmet instead of a rocket.

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  The Soldier playing card as seen in Poker Night at the Inventory.

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  The Soldier's helmet as a selectable Worms: Reloaded worm hat

• Soldier-icon-beta-RED.png

  The Soldier's RED beta emblem

• Soldier-icon-beta-BLU.png

  The Soldier's BLU beta emblem

Related merchandise

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  Soldier iPhone 3G Gelaskin Cover

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  The Soldier T-Shirt

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  Soldier Victory Poster

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  The Team Poster

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  Team Mousepad

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  Soldier Class Decal, White

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  Soldier Class Decal, Black

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  RED Soldier Figurine

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  BLU Soldier Figurine

Related fads

• Painis Cupcake

See also

Concept art of the Soldier

• Rocket jump
• Juggling
• Aerials
• Meet the Soldier
• Soldier match-ups
• Anti-Soldier Strategy
• Soldier responses
• Soldier voice commands
• Soldier taunts
• Basic Soldier strategy
• Community Soldier strategy
• Obtaining Soldier achievements
• List of references (Soldier)
• Soldier (Classic)

External links

• WAR! Update
• WAR! Update - The Soldier Update
• The Soldier comic
• TF2 Official Blog - Some Manner of Grid-based Cipher Code
• TF2 Official Blog - More dot-commy mumbo jumbo for you bunch of women
• The Zepheniah Mann & Sons Co. Quarterly Concern
• Classless Update - Today is A Good Day
• TF2 Official Blog - Drop And Give Me Terror!
• TF2 Official Blog - How to Get a Ghostly Gibus Hat
• TF2 Official Blog - Attention Employees...
• TF2 Official Blog - The War Update
• TF2 Official Blog - It's a Bloodbath!
• TF2 Official Blog - War, Day 2
• TF2 Official Blog - The Big Red One
• TF2 Official Blog - It Is Me, But Smaller!
• TF2 Official Blog - This is Very Good Title to Blog Post