• Kerb
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    9 months ago

    no nothing special about it.
    the Krieg and their shovels are just a huge meme in the comunity.

    there is afaik nothing in the lore about their shovels.

    the krieg are based on ww1 trench warfare.
    and aparently it was a common practice (or at least often depicted)
    to use sharpend entrenching tools as an improvised meelee weapon

    • R...@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      It’s just their preferred type of weaponry that made its way (through memes) into the lore. Exactly as @Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de says, the Krieg (Krieg even means ‘war’ in German) are based on WW1 trench warfare and 40K has taken this to the extreme (as with everything)