Chargin' Targe
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| “ | “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.
The main function of this weapon is its Charge ability. Pressing the alternate fire button initiates a charge attack; the player will move forward at an extremely fast pace, but will be unable to change direction (unless using Ali Baba's Wee Booties or Bootlegger, though the player will turn slowly). Attacking at any time during a charge with a melee weapon will immediately end the charge. If the player bumps into an enemy at the end of the charge, the impact will knock them back and deal 50 damage, with an additional 10 damage for each head collected by the Eyelander, Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker or Nessie's Nine Iron, if the player has one of them equipped. It is possible to charge even while airborne or underwater.
The strength of the charge is indicated in a meter in the HUD which changes color as it depletes. Using a melee weapon in conjunction with the charge will provide extra damage potential. For example, when the meter is white or green, a melee attack will only do normal damage. At the yellow color, essentially half of the charge distance, striking will add mini-crit damage. Finally, moving the full distance and attacking at red will give it a full-power critical hit. Additionally, disregarding distance charged, you still get a melee crit swing immediately after bashing into a player (no damage bashes work as well). While charging, any enemy in the direct path will be bashed by the Chargin' Targe provided the player does not end the charge prematurely by attacking.
The Targe cannot replenish its charge meter using ammo crates; however, it can be replenished through respawn and resupply cabinets. When charging with a Grenade Launcher or Loch-n-Load, the glowing effect will occur as with a melee weapon, but it will only do normal damage upon firing and will not cancel the charge. A Chargin' Targe dropped on death does not provide ammunition.
Additionally, the Targe provides +50% fire resistance and +40% explosive resistance to the wearer.
The Chargin' Targe is automatically given to any player who obtains 5 Demoman achievements.
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Damage
Alternate fire initiates a charge attack, which deals damage on its own, or may be used in conjunction with another weapon.
- Charge Damage: 50 (if shield connects with enemy at the end of the charge - 0 otherwise) + 10 per head (up to 5 heads).
- The shield damage is affected by weapon damage spread, it is not a constant number.
- Charge Speed: 750 Hammer units/sec, or 250%.
- Charge Speed: 637.5 Hammer units/sec with Scotsman's Skullcutter equipped, or 213%.
Function times
- Charge Interval: 12 seconds
- Charge Interval: 6 seconds with the Persian Persuader equipped
Times are approximate and determined by community testing.
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
| Class Token - Demoman | Slot Token - Secondary | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||
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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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Strange variant
Related achievements
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.
- 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.
- [Undocumented] The Chargin' Targe was added to the crafting blueprint for the Gunboats.
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
Unused content
- In the game files, there exists a texture for the blue Targe marked as "c_targe_blue".
Trivia
- The word targe generally refers to various types of infantry shields, often round in shape and notably used during the 17th and 18th 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.
Gallery
First-person view with Eyelander. |
First-person view with Scotsman's Skullcutter. |
First-person view with Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker |
RED first-person view with Claidheamh Mòr. |
BLU first-person view with Claidheamh Mòr. |
First-person view with the Half-Zatoichi. |
First-person view with the Persian Persuader. |
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First-person view with Nessie's Nine Iron. |
The old RED paint scheme. |
The old BLU paint scheme. |
See also
External links
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