[Baalz]

It certainly does not seem to be the case that you lose an eye only if you hit the shield, if so then the counter would be having a really high attack value. As I mentioned, my jaguar warriors lost eyes over 50% of the time...even when they never swung their sword because of the awe effect. By the second round close to half of them were blind and most of them had lost at least one eye...despite the fact that their attack value was 2 higher than the defense value including the shield and less than half off them overcame the awe each round to even swing. They've got good MR, good attack, good defense and a lot of them didn't even swing, yet still had a *very* high rate of eye loss. Given that eye loss rate and no apparent way to counter it there certainly seems no point in sending my own SC in....the best I could hope for is that they blind each other if I bring my own eye shield. :/