Arrowslits and tower shields

[Hypersmurf]

With a tower shield, whatever cover you have vs an opponent is the same cover they have against you.

eg if you set your shield for 9/10 cover, both you and your opponent get +10 to AC.

An arrowslit grants 9/10 cover to an archer. Do all his targets gain +10 AC against his attacks?

The cover rules - especially tower shields - seem to fall down beyond 5' reach. It seems someone behind a tower shield with a 10' reach should get more cover than the person standing 10' away from it...

-Hyp.

 

[Azure Trance]

While a tower shield is large enough to act as a movable wall, I view (in my opinion) an arrow slit as being too small to be useful. What if you had to aim high to hit someone far away, or to the far left or right?

How would someone with a 10ft pike be able to maneuver it around enough through a hole in a tower shield without the shield itself being an encumberance to you?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Sorry, I've been unclear.

I'm not talking about arrowslits in tower shields.

I'm just talking about cover, which is provided by tower shields, and which is also provided by arrowslits.

-Hyp.

 

[kreynolds]

eg if you set your shield for 9/10 cover, both you and your opponent get +10 to AC.

An arrowslit grants 9/10 cover to an archer. Do all his targets gain +10 AC against his attacks?

Technically, they should, but in the last game I played in, someone actually read the passage that said the archer did not suffer such penalties. I remember because it was total crap and completely went against the rules in every way. Then again, maybe he was making that passage up.

I'll see if I can find it.s

 

[Hypersmurf]

The line is "with ranged weapons, it's easy to have better cover than your opponent. That's what arrowslits are all about."

But it doesn't go into any detail about how you determine that.

Does someone standing behind an arrowslit, shooting at someone standing on the other side of the arrowslit, have 9/10 cover while their opponent has none?

-Hyp.

 

[Stalker0]

If the archer can get someone to hold the shield, then yeah he would get 9/10 cover, but he would get no penalties to attack. With a bow, you just point the arrow through the slit, aim, and fire. The cover doesn't block the arrow, so you don't recieve penalties.

Now if you can find someone dumb enough to just sit there and hold the shield while being fired upon...

 

[shilsen]

Does someone standing behind an arrowslit, shooting at someone standing on the other side of the arrowslit, have 9/10 cover while their opponent has none?

That's how I see it.

Not that the cover matters when the people behind the arrowslits are bugbears with a couple of class levels, while the opponent on the outside is a high level archer. Just remembering my PC's last game session

 

[bebo]

lol im going to get a orge tower shelid with a archer slit and shot enimes im behind it