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<blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 7377755" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>As someone with some experience* with sword and shield fighting... I don't know how I feel about this. You sacrifice an action to use your shield... but I can tell you that just holding your shield tight to you you already have denied your foe a lot of angles of attack (in fact, using your shield *too much* makes it easier for the foe to knock it out of alignment and creating an opening). (this was a fairly large shield, not a buckler, but not quite a tower shield either). So it's silly to me that you are sacrificing an action to use your shield!</p><p></p><p>On the other hand... part of learning how to use a shield is not just about learning how to use it for defense - it's learning how to attack while holding a shield. That thing gets in the way! You have to learn how strike without dropping your guard. It *is* a reduction of your offensive potential... but if you know what you are doing, the shield will hinder you far less than it hinders your foe.</p><p></p><p>And the attack you are sacrificing to hold your shield up is not one with a high chance of striking so it's not too big a sacrifice...</p><p></p><p>BUT you are already sacrificing offensive potential to use a shield (no 2 handed weapon, no free hand to do stuff, no secondary weapon...). So I guess we'll have to see how balanced it is. </p><p></p><p>*I did 3-4 years of medieval sword-fighting training but I had to stop because of an injury. By the time I was done, my left arm looked different than my right because of the different muscles used to hold the shield up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ancalagon, post: 7377755, member: 23"] As someone with some experience* with sword and shield fighting... I don't know how I feel about this. You sacrifice an action to use your shield... but I can tell you that just holding your shield tight to you you already have denied your foe a lot of angles of attack (in fact, using your shield *too much* makes it easier for the foe to knock it out of alignment and creating an opening). (this was a fairly large shield, not a buckler, but not quite a tower shield either). So it's silly to me that you are sacrificing an action to use your shield! On the other hand... part of learning how to use a shield is not just about learning how to use it for defense - it's learning how to attack while holding a shield. That thing gets in the way! You have to learn how strike without dropping your guard. It *is* a reduction of your offensive potential... but if you know what you are doing, the shield will hinder you far less than it hinders your foe. And the attack you are sacrificing to hold your shield up is not one with a high chance of striking so it's not too big a sacrifice... BUT you are already sacrificing offensive potential to use a shield (no 2 handed weapon, no free hand to do stuff, no secondary weapon...). So I guess we'll have to see how balanced it is. *I did 3-4 years of medieval sword-fighting training but I had to stop because of an injury. By the time I was done, my left arm looked different than my right because of the different muscles used to hold the shield up. [/QUOTE]
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