Demoman has Sword and Shield WTF?

It might be fun, it just seems like this changes the class significantly.

I don't think it will. The sword probably replaces the almost useless bottle. And you can opt for the shield which replaces stickies.... I don't like that, but it might be fun.

Eh, stickies are too important to give up. Especially how they are essential to clearing up SG nests.

I'm not too comfortable with the idea of giving up stickies. While a good demoman can single handidly destroy a team with regular nades, an ubered demoman requires those stickies to do a lot of damage all over at once. The sword seems like a decent replacement, although the bottle was actually a damn good weapon in its own right, and obviously the demoman's only response for close combat.

Could be a funky replacement, but that is clearly more like a Viking shield.

That's because Viking shields are targes.

Closing this as there already is an active TF2 thread about the current updates:

http://forums.massassi.net/vb3/showthread.php?t=56037