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:	Craft, Drop, Purchase, Uncrate(#4), Uncrate(#15)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	No
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 community-made secondary weapon for the Soldier. It appears as 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 multiplicitavely 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		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 those 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

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

Battalion's Backup		Scrap Metal		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 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

• [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Grenadier's Softcap.

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.

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.
• The Battalion's Backup continues to protect from crits in humiliation.
• The backpack component clips with the Soldier's primary weapons.
• When the bugle is equipped, it clips through the Soldier's hand.
• When you hit a teammate or an enemy, the meter also increases

Trivia

• Like the Buff Banner, holding down the primary fire button will delay the effect until the button is released.
• The Battalion's Backup 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
• Buff Banner
• Damage blocking