Lead Shield

[Endoperez]

Is Lead Shield useful on units that have higher than 0 encumberance? It's parry value seems quite low when compared to other Earth-based shields of same or lower level.

Lead Shield: prot 22, parry 6, enc 3

Kite Shield: Prot 18, parry 6, enc 2
Black Steel Kite: prot 28, parry 8, enc 2
Black Steel Tower: prot 25, parry 9, enc 2
Shield of Valor: prot 20, parry 8, enc 1

Is it useful as-is? Does Lead Shield need a boost? I'd give it at least parry 7, to give it the same final defense adjustment as nonmagical Kite Shields.

[lch]

It raises MR, doesn't it? Or do I remember wrong?

[Meglobob]

I suppose the parry value is lower due to it being considerably heavier to lift/move around.

The only reason I ever equip a lead shield is purely for the +4 to MR. Its the enc thats the killer thou, but any bonus would be good and 7 sounds reasonable.

In MP they are very unpopular, meaning errr, I have never seen one equipped by another player, other than me that is.

Only nations with no S mages being targeted by MR resisted spells need use them, MA Argatha for example to protect its thugs.

[ano]

I saw it the previous turn on a bog mummy pretender with total resistance of 36. And that was clever enough in that situation I must say.

[Endoperez]

lch said:
It raises MR, doesn't it? Or do I remember wrong?



Yes, it does, but Lucky Coin and Charcoal Shield and the like have at least as powerful abilities, but higher final parry values AND lower encumberance.

[ano]

It depends on situation. There're not too many common items that raise MR and in some cases this may be crucial.
Charcoal shield is much harder to forge, btw.

[Herode]

The Lucky Coin too. The Lead Shield is available soon in the game and is cheap.

[ano]

I really don't think that lead shield may be useful for anything but MR-heavy SC's and MR is a mid-late game issue usually. So normally you won't make a Lead shield early in the game and thus in doesn't matter whether it is Const2, 4 or even 6. I think that it would be fine if it had better stats and was Const4 or 6.

[Jazzepi]

I put a lead shield and a awe shield on an air queen to combine with another air queen setup to do shimmering fields. It was quite nice against R'yleh since I needed an *** ton of MR.

Jazzepi

[Xietor]

I use lead shields on banelords when i am fighting races that have a lot of s mages.

[kasnavada]

It gives MR, and is cheap. There is no other stats that matters. It's balanced as is.

[Hoplosternum]

I think they are fine as they are. Can be very useful on Enc 0 Thugs and SCs.

[MaxWilson]

Since Communion Slaves don't take fatigue from encumbrance, it may be useful on Enc 0 thugs using Linebacker communions.

-Max