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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JesterOC" data-source="post: 7641796" data-attributes="member: 42841">After reading discussions that speculated that a two handed weapon user vs a sword and board user.I wrote a little program to try to see what the results would be.UPDATE: Had to add code to only use a shield block once per turn.I assumed fighters both had these statistics+9 to hitAC 18 with armorHP 2118 strengthThe great sword user1d12+4 damageSword and Board1d8+4Steel shield 5 hardness 20 hpI used two strategies for the shield userAlways use the shield and try to preserve the shield unless you might die (assumes that we don't know the total damage until after the shield block was in place)Results were interestingOn average the sword and boarder won about 58 percent of the time if the shield was trying to preserve the shield, and they won about 60% of the time when all used the shield every time they could.The shield infowhen trying to preserverendered unusable in a fight about 30% of the time 2.5% were destroyed in a fightwhen using all the timerendered unusable in a fight about 42% of the time 5% were destroyed in a fightWhen I adjusted to 4th levelwith +12 to hit60 HPand 21 ACpreserve shield became 55% win for sword and boardbut use always it dropped to 50% for the sword and boarder and the shields were broken 89% of the timeIf I gave them both +1 striking weapons at that level it goes to about 50/50 in preserve mode, and 55/45 in the two hander's favor if they went to always mode.But if I give the sword a boarder a sturdy shield it jumps back to 58% to 42% favoring the sword and boarder. In preserve, and 59% / 41% shield user to two handed in use always.Anyway there could be (more) things I am missing but it currently looks pretty good for the sword and boarder, but I am not taking into account feats now weapon properties.</blockquote>

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