Re: Anyone else excited about the next patch?
 

That's easy. Give them a prot 0 shield with parry 10 called "Monk Dodge" or something. That should make them pretty much immune to arrows without affecting melee at all. (the unit screen will display obscene defense, but just make note of it in the unit discription so that the plaeyr isn't misled).

I used this trick in my Alugra, City of Wonders nation (see sig)

Re: Anyone else excited about the next patch?
 

As far as I see read it, Ranged combat has "shield hits", too. Am I wrong here?

Re: Anyone else excited about the next patch?
 

No, in ranged combat if the parry check is passed, the projectile is stopped no matter what the protection value of the shield is.

Hide shields can parry jotun boulders no problem.

Re: Anyone else excited about the next patch?
 

I think boulders and ballistae ignore shields. But that might have changed now that the flail effect is no longer bypassing shields, just adding +2.

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If this is true, you could use #flail on ranged weapons to ignore shields? That would be unbelieably awesome. Sombre had problems with his Warpfire throwers because the Warpfire was constantly parried by shields.

You can bypass it with #secondaryeffectalways, but that "fix" has its problems..

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Uh... Did you read what KO wrote? It's no longer bypassing them, just increasing the attack rating.

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And I don't have any problems with warpfire throwers, it was warplightning throwers.

What problems does the 'fix' present anyway? I can't think of any.

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AoE weapons bypass shields too ... but then you're hitting 3 units instead of 1. I suppose a big boulder could do that anyway!

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Ranged AoE attacks or melee? Because I'm not so sure about melee.

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Melee aoe does.

But all you have to do to bypass shields is use #secondaryeffectalways without aoe and assign the 'real' weapon to that, while keeping the original capped at 1 stun damage or something.