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Some people concluded otherwise in another thread.

I think shield protection is not used in range combat. If it fails to hit the unit then damage is not calculated. The shield just seems to negate missles by providing a large boost to the target's defense roll via shield parry.

It would be better if it used the shield protection when the 2x shield parry bonus actually causes the arrow to miss.

I'm not show how this affects missiles from spells like fire bolts. It seems strange that an armour negating bolt might be useless against a unit with a shield.

This is the boulder's vs shields issue that people some time talk about.