Are Shields Worthless against AN Attacks

[Knai]

Originally Posted by Fantomen

So AN and ignoring shields are separate properties for ranged weapons, but all vanilla AN ranged weapons seem have them both, which is why they seem to be linked. But if you mod a ranged weapon to do AN damage it will not ignore shields unless you set that as well.

Exactly. Which, in practicality, means two things.
1) Shields are more or less worthless against AN attacks outside of special effects (Awe, Entanglement, Fire Shield, whatever).
2) The spaghetti code mess that is Dominions 3 is messy even in this area.