Chargin' Targe
“ | “If I were to pick up this cowering-plate, I would have to put down my second sword,” a Scotsman thinks. “And surely that is madness.”
The Chargin’ Targe solves this riddle by turning the useless shield into a deadly weapon you can run at people with and then bludgeon to death. — Close Combat Kit publicity blurb
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The Chargin' Targe is an unlockable secondary weapon for the Demoman. It is an antique, blood-stained wooden shield with a painted yellow cross and reinforced by an iron rim with bolts and a deadly center spike. A portion of the shield is missing and splintered.
As it is a shield, simply equipping the Chargin' Targe provides the wearer with a passive +50% fire resistance and +30% explosive resistance. Additionally, the Chargin' Targe allows the Demoman to perform a Charging maneuver for 1.75 seconds (or 2.25 seconds if equipped with the Claidheamh Mòr), so long as the "Charge" bar in the HUD is completely full. Charging grants the Demoman a temporary burst of speed and sends him forward in an almost-fixed straight line. This charge allows the player to damage an opponent they come into direct contact with via a distance-scaling shield bash, and powers up the Demoman's next melee swing depending on the duration of his charge, with the maximum damage boost being a Critical hit (even on melee weapons that cannot deal random Critical hits). Charging also immediately removes the effects of afterburn, bleeding, Mad Milk, and Jarate.
Heads gathered by the Eyelander, Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker or Nessie's Nine Iron increase the base damage of the bash by 5 damage each, at a maximum of 5 heads.
The Chargin' Targe is automatically given to any player who obtains 5 Demoman achievements.
Contents
Damage and function times
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Damage type | Melee | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
Damage | ||
Base damage | 100% | 50 (+5 per head) |
Mini-crit | 68 | |
Function times | ||
Recharge time | 12 s | |
Maximum charge time | 1.75 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Note: The Claidheamh Mòr and Ali Baba's Wee Booties or Bootlegger refill 25% charge on melee kill, and the Persian Persuader refills with ammo pickups or 20% charge on hit.
Speed
Condition | Speed (Hu/s) |
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Charging | 750 |
Charging while wielding the Scotsman's Skullcutter | 637.5 |
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
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As a crafting ingredient
Chargin' Targe | Razorback | Gunboats | ||
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Chargin' Targe | Homewrecker | Claidheamh Mòr | ||
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Chargin' Targe | Reclaimed Metal | Splendid Screen | ||
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Chargin' Targe | Reclaimed Metal | Ali Baba's Wee Booties | Tide Turner | |||
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Strange variant
Related achievements
General achievements
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Demoman
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Update history
- The Chargin' Targe was added to the game.
- Fixed the Chargin' Targe's Crit not working on servers with
tf_weapon_criticals 0
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- Reduced the explosive damage resistance on the Chargin' Targe to 50%. The explosive damage resistance was 65% prior to the update.
- Direct charge hit now does 50 damage + 10 per head (up to 5 heads).
- Capped the turn rate from +left and +right while charging.
April 29, 2010 Patch (119th Update)
- [Undocumented] Further reduction of the explosive damage resistance on the Chargin' Targe to 40%.
- [Undocumented] Changed the Chargin' Targe colors from team-colored to yellow for easier identification.
July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)
- [Undocumented] Updated the kill icon for the Chargin' Targe.
December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)
- [Undocumented] The Chargin' Targe no longer protects players against their own explosive damage.
- [Undocumented] The Chargin' Targe was added to the crafting blueprint for the Claidheamh Mòr.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- Added Strange quality.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed greater turning control than intentionally allowed.
- [Undocumented] Demomen can now begin a charge while in midair.
- [Undocumented] The charge meter is no longer fully depleted if the user is interrupted by a compression blast.
- [Undocumented] The charge meter can now be refilled by resupply cabinets.
- Fixed a bug where Demomen kept their leftover charge amount when self-aborting charges (you'll still keep leftovers when stopped by enemy airblasts).
- Added simplistic bot behaviors for Chargin' Targe.
- [Undocumented] The physics of charging with a shield as a Demoman have been altered.
- Fixed the Demoman not being able to charge while in the air.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- Fixed Demoman weapons primary/secondary being backwards in the loadout screen.
- Fixed the Demoman shields not saving their upgrades upon round reset in Mann vs. Machine.
- Fixed Demoman shields not reducing explosive damage in non-MvM games.
- Changed attributes:
- Added Afterburn immunity.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- Professional killstreak Chargin' Targes now generate proper effects when on a killstreak. These effects do not stack if another killstreak effect weapon is active.
- Fixed framerate affecting player turn rate while using the shield charge.
- Fixed the Chargin' Targe doing impact damage at any range.
December 22, 2014 Patch (Smissmas 2014)
- Added Festive variant.
- Fixed the Festive Targe not using the correct Blue team material.
July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Updated description to better detail the weapon's features.
- [Undocumented] Changed fire resistance on Chargin' Targe from 50% to 30%.
- [Undocumented] Changed explosive resistance on Chargin' Targe from 40% to 30%.
December 4, 2015 Patch #2
- [Undocumented] Changed fire resistance on Chargin' Targe from 30% to 50%.
- [Undocumented] Changed explosive resistance on Chargin' Targe from 30% to 40%.
December 17, 2015 Patch (Tough Break Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Melee damage boost after shield bash is based on amount of charge consumed. Now provides Mini-Crit at 25% depleted, and full Crit at 60% depleted.
- Charging now removes debuffs from the Demoknight (Bleed, Fire, Mad Milk, Jarate).
- Reduced blast resistance from 40% to 30%.
- Removed fire immunity.
- [Undocumented] The item's possible level has been changed from level 10 to level 1-99.
Unused content
- In the game files, there exists a texture for a BLU team variant of the Chargin' Targe, marked as
c_targe_blue.vtf
. - There is an additional material and texture named
c_targe_custom.vmt
andc_targe_custom.vtf
, respectively. The material is set up with the ability to have decals applied to it.
The Festive Chargin' Targe is set up for paint to be applied, but the ability to do so is disabled.
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Main article: Paint Can
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Single colors | |||
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An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | Color No. 216-190-216 | Peculiarly Drab Tincture | Aged Moustache Grey |
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A Distinctive Lack of Hue | After Eight | Radigan Conagher Brown | Ye Olde Rustic Colour |
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Muskelmannbraun | Mann Co. Orange | Australium Gold | The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants |
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Dark Salmon Injustice | Pink as Hell | A Deep Commitment to Purple | Noble Hatter's Violet |
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A Color Similar to Slate | Zepheniah's Greed | Drably Olive | Indubitably Green |
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The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | A Mann's Mint | ||
Team colors | |||
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Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) | Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) | Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) | Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU) |
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Team Spirit (RED) | Team Spirit (BLU) | Operator's Overalls (RED) | Operator's Overalls (BLU) |
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The Value of Teamwork (RED) | The Value of Teamwork (BLU) | An Air of Debonair (RED) | An Air of Debonair (BLU) |
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Cream Spirit (RED) | Cream Spirit (BLU) | Unpainted (RED) | Unpainted (BLU) |
Bugs
- This weapon does not glow in the world view when Crit-boosted.
- The Festive variant does not glow when Crit-boosted.
- While equipped, if the wearer spectates another player in first-person mode while dead, upon respawning the shield appears where the spectated player was while they respawned. The shield is non-interactive and can be seen through walls, textures, and players.
- The backpack image for the Chargin' Targe features the old and unused BLU skin for the weapon, rather than the yellow stripes the in-game version has.
Trivia
- The word targe generally refers to various types of infantry shields, often round in shape and notably used during the 13th to 16th centuries in the Scottish Highlands as the main means of personal defense in combat. It was decorated with designs possibly referring to the individual owner or their respective clan. Considering this, the front of the shield bears resemblance to the Team Fortress logo.
- The Highlanders were famous for their charges. A single-handed claymore would be held in the right hand and used to stab the enemy, the targe would be strapped to the left arm and used to parry sword or bayonet blows, and a small dagger held reversed in the left hand and overlapping the targe would be used to slash.
- Because the Chargin' Targe has a 50% fire damage reduction, it is possible for an overhealed Demoman to survive the Pyro's Hadouken taunt. The Hadouken deals 500 damage at point blank, which the Chargin' Targe halves to 250, and the Demoman's maximum health with overheal is 260.
Gallery
- Default first-person view
- Festive first-person view
- Other
First-person view with the Eyelander.
First-person view with the Australium Eyelander.
First-person view with the RED Festive Eyelander.
First-person view with the BLU Festive Eyelander.
First-person view with the Scotsman's Skullcutter.
First-person view with the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker.
First-person view with the RED Claidheamh Mòr.
First-person view with the Half-Zatoichi.
First-person view with the Persian Persuader.
First-person view with Nessie's Nine Iron.
See also
External links
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