Battalion's Backup

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Now don't get me wrong, YOU don't need back-up, but please dig deep in that war torn black pea of a heart and feel pity for the rest of your good-for-nothing team. All you need is the Battalion's Backup to give them a helping hand. Just make sure you ain't too busy kicking somebody's ass when they call.
Battalion's Backup publicity blurb

The Battalion's Backup is a community-made secondary weapon for the Soldier. It is a military backpack-mounted radio transceiver, featuring a folded map secured by two brown straps, along with an attached black magnetic compass. Accompanying it is a bronze-colored bugle with a pewter mouthpiece, and a tattered yellow triangular banner, patched up and reattached in the middle, 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. The player's Rage meter displayed in the HUD is filled through taking roughly 350 damage from other players in a single life; Once filled, the pack can be used to make all nearby teammates within 450 units, and the player themselves, immune to critical hits, and grants 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 the Chargin' Targe's explosive resistance.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Effect range 450 units
Damage
Charge fill damage 350
Function times
Effect duration 10 s
Activation time 2.645 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 those in Egypt, both contribute to filling the Rage Meter.

Item set

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The Tank Buster
Backpack The Tank Buster Bundle.png
Effect

Leave a Calling Card on your victims

Demonstration

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Buff Banner Reclaimed Metal Battalion's Backup
Item icon Buff Banner.png + Item icon Reclaimed Metal.png = Item icon Battalion's Backup.png
Class Token - Soldier Slot Token - Secondary Scrap Metal Possible Results
Item icon Class Token - Soldier.png + Item icon Slot Token - Secondary.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png =
Item icon Buff Banner.png Item icon Gunboats.png Item icon Battalion's Backup.png Item icon Concheror.png
Item icon Mantreads.png Item icon Reserve Shooter.png Item icon Righteous Bison.png Item icon B.A.S.E. Jumper.png
Item icon Panic Attack.png

As a crafting ingredient

Refined Metal Tank Buster weapon Grenadier's Softcap
Item icon Refined Metal.pngx4 + Item icon Black Box.pngItem icon Battalion's Backup.png = Item icon Grenadier's Softcap.png
Battalion's Backup Scrap Metal Concheror
Item icon Battalion's Backup.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png = Item icon Concheror.png
Battalion's Backup Reclaimed Metal Righteous Bison
Item icon Battalion's Backup.png + Item icon Reclaimed Metal.png = Item icon Righteous Bison.png

Related achievements

Leaderboard class soldier.png Soldier

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

Update history

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
  • The Battalion's Backup 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.

October 8, 2010 Patch

February 14, 2011 Patch

  • Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on tournament servers when the server is restricting the player's weapons using the item_whitelist.
  • [Undocumented] Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on Medieval maps for items that are not allowed in medieval mode.

March 15, 2011 Patch

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

April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)

  • Reduced rage generation rate by 50%.

June 10, 2011 Patch

  • Fixed a bug that caused players to see the wrong backpacks on some classes.

July 20, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] This weapon was added in the crafting blueprint for the Righteous Bison.

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)

January 11, 2012 Patch

  • Fixed incorrect player animations for the Battalion's Backup.

March 15, 2012 Patch

  • Fixed Soldier buffs and rage meters not always being reset

Bugs

  • The Battalion's Backup continues to protect from crits in humiliation.

Trivia

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

Gallery

See also