Taking sea provinces #2

[Jazzepi]

Argitoth said:
mitigate? how well? as a matter of fact, with air shield on all my mages, a few still died. he had like 7 mages casting it per round though.

Shields work by providing another layer of defense. AFAIK the defender against any projectile that only hits a single target, such a the projectiles off of blade wind, or arrows, or crossbow bolts, can be blocked by shields.

The defender makes a defense roll. If he succeeds he gets to add his shield protection to the protection of the armor where he was hit. This can mean protection well into the 25+ for well armored units with things like tower shields. This is why you can watch most heavy infantry walk through a hailstorm of arrows mostly unscathed.

Jazzepi

[Sombre]

That actually isn't how shields work for missiles. If you make the roll to parry with the shield the projectile is stopped regardless of the prot value of shield or armour. Hide shields on machakan troops can stop jotun boulders just as well, if they make the parry, as tower shields against slingstones.

[Starshine_Monarch]

Sombre said:
That actually isn't how shields work for missiles. If you make the roll to parry with the shield the projectile is stopped regardless of the prot value of shield or armour. Hide shields on machakan troops can stop jotun boulders just as well, if they make the parry, as tower shields against slingstones.

That . . . Doesn't seem like it should work that way. Besides, if it does work that way, then what would shields need protection values for?

[Sir_Dr_D]

The shields protection value must be for melee attack then.

But I agree that the parry rule does not make sense. You should not be able to stop boulders with a hide shield.

[Foodstamp]

A wizard did it.

[Starshine_Monarch]

True, but naked Mictlani warriors shouldn't.

[vfb]

Boulders should probably do AOE 1 damage. Everything else seems to make sense to me.

[Lingchih]

I don't want to picture naked Mictlani warriors. Naked Pan Maeneds now, that's another story.