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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3972517" data-attributes="member: 114">This isn't the experience of a friend of mine who has been fighting with and against shields for many years now.I would also suggest that it isn't the experience of riot police, for whom shields are a wonderfully effective (and cost-effective) defence against individuals and not just missiles.Furthermore, even IF shields are all about deflection of an attack, I would wager that it is much easier to deflect with a shield than a weapon (especially since the shield is likely being manipulated by your whole arm, and the weapon has a greater dependency upon the strength of your wrist).Then when you look at fighting against creatures... I would think that you would have a much better chance of deflecting the claws or bite of a big creature with a big shield than you would with any single handed weapon.</blockquote>