January 8th, 2009, 11:33 PM
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Re: If Giants existed in BC times...
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Originally Posted by MaxWilson
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Originally Posted by Sombre
Well shields don't actually give defence (or I guess they might, but not through parry), it's just the misleading way it displays on the unit screen. Actually I think several shields reduce defence.
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I know, but for our purposes it doesn't matter. The fact that the shield of gleaming gold is better at deflecting *arrows* because it's shiny is actually even weirder than if it boosted defense directly.
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Originally Posted by vfb
But that's not at all how they should affect missile defense, if the mechanism is through interfering with the archer's vision. The shield should reduce the precision of any archer targeting the square the Gold/Accursed-Shielded unit is in. The shield should not be more effective against arrows coincidentally falling into the space where the unit is standing.
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Precisely, vfb.
-Max
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["Memories of Ice", by Steven Erikson. Retranslated into l33t.]
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