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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaer" data-source="post: 3949524" data-attributes="member: 57861">Did you watch the movies?Did you not see Boromir standing in front of the hobbits hacking down every orc that tried to go past him to get to them?  He protected Merry and Pippin by killing everyone! By not letting the orcs by him, by making himself the more deadly opponent, the one they needed to focus on.  That sounds like the ideal of the 4E fighter - he doesn't taunt, he doesn't magically shield others, and he doesn't trick someone into attacking him: he hacks down anyone who tried to get by him to the person he is protecting, halting their progress and making them realize if they aren't paying attention to him, they will die.Did not Eowynn do the same thing by coming between the witch king and her uncle?Mad Martigan protected Willow.  He stood in front and killed everyone who tried get by him.  He then ran around and led them into traps and ambushes, and as he killed them, they all kept focusing on him and not on Willow and the baby.Even the guys in 300.  The entire point of the phalax fighting style was to protect the person next to you!  There is an entire scene in the movie where this is explained, which results in the hunch0back not being able to join them because he physically is incapable of protecting the man next to him.In any move in which someone says "Get behind me!" to someone and then fights the foe himself, that person has just played the part of the defender.  Ripley does it in Aliens when she fights the Queen with the powerloader!  The Queen could have kept going after Newt (she was right there!) but Ripley would have layed some serious pain on the Queen while it ignored her for Newt.I think both the TWH and the SnB fighter will be able defenders.  The difference is the SnB is set to survive the attacks and slowly wear down his opponent while the THF quickly hacks through all resistance (cause if he doesn't get them down quickly, they'll take him down because he lacks the protection of the shield).  Both can survive equally well, they just have different mentalities about how to do so.If you want to rush into the carnage and hack away, you will be free to do so.  Just know that everyone will look at you and say "this guy needs to go down first!  Once's he's gone, the rest will be easy pickings!"  While they are all attacking you, you are defending everyone else behind you.That is what it means to be the defender and it is a classic role in fiction.  There is always the person who stands up and takes on the opponent, defending someone from harm.  Now there is a way to play one.</blockquote>

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