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Re: (TFT) Shield Wall - Defence bonus or armor?

I think you need to recognize the purpose and role it plays. When and where is a shieldwall used? For mediocre troops or troops with mediocre armor to get better defense when deployed in large groups. Well-armored and trained troops didn't really use it, or not in a way that makes us say "shieldwall" anyway.
In any event, overlapping shields seems to me to be a case for a Dex penalty - it makes people harder to hit like they're behind a wall. But if one does see and exploit an opening, the soft bits behind the shields are relatively easy to wound.
-----Original Message----- From: David Bofinger 
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 7:17 PM
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: Re: (TFT) Shield Wall - Defence bonus or armor?

I think the idea that shields, shield walls, main-gauche, fencing skill,
etc.. all provide DX mods rather than damage reduction is a good one. A few
thoughts:

* Rather than a e.g. +7 mod I'd rather see attackers rolling a couple of
extra dice.
* You can't block a giant's club with a main-gauche. Nor probably even with
a buckler. I'm not sure how to handle that, there's a few ways.
* If you are using parry rolls then maybe giving bonuses to those makes
more sense. But I'm not fond of parry rolls.

---
David



On 14 February 2015 at 10:36, Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca> wrote:


Hi all,
  I've been thinking about the shield wall.

  Do people think that a shield wall should give an armor bonus, or
make defenders behind the wall easier to hit?

  I am leery about giving bigger bonuses to armor.  A PC with heavy
armor, a leather flesh or stone flesh item, a shield and a shield wall
bonus is going to be immune to light & medium weapons and largely
immune to heavier weapons.

  Being immune to damage is pretty dull.  This makes me think that
the talent should give enemies a – DX to hit.

  Anyway, I am polling the group.  What do people think?  If you do
not have strong feelings, or feel that your arguments have already
been made, simply weighing in and saying which one you
prefer would be appreciated.

  Warm regards, Rick.
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