Re: lantern shield
In general, the gold shield, the eye shield, the vine shield and the charcoal shield are good anti-chaff weapons, not so great against enemy supercombatants.
The lantern shield is nice if you have no other access to fear (because you need some other helmet), the stats for corpse candles are on pg 239 of the manual.
Against enemy SCs, you are probably better off going in there John Woo style, with a weapon in each hand.
If you really must have a shield:
* Do the enemy SCs have non-stratospheric MR? Given that you're fighting pythium, probably their MR will be >20, but if not, take the Eye Shield to blind them.
* Are the enemy SCs non-fire-immune? You might *consider* the charcoal shield, if you think an AP 7 hit will hurt them more than it hurts you (not likely.)
* The Scutata Vulturnus only shocks your enemy once, but that might be enough to tip the combat in your favor (if we're talking 1 SC vs 1 SC, the lightning strike causes some fatigue), and it provides some shock resistance, which you *must have* against Theurgs.
Hope that helps, but it depends on a lot of factors,
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