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[Zantan]

My dwarves have made two artifact adamantine bucklers.  Should I let my dwarves use them, or should I let them all have high quality steel shields?  As I understand it, the artifact buckler would deflect more often, but the shields would protect more of the arm.  I think shields are much more important for blocking than their passive protection, so the artifact buckler should be better.  What do you think?

[FuzzyZergling]

I'd go with the bucklers, for the style points if nothing else.

[Tirion]

For protection, all shields are nearly the same, maybe better than bucklers, maybe not. However, shields are sometimes used as blunt weapons (Misc Object User), which makes steel a lot better than candy.

[i2amroy]

Actually if the wiki has it right then the steel shields will come out on top in both the deflection category and the coverage category. Shields naturally have a deflect chance of 20%, which multiplied by the masterwork quality is 2x20%=40% chance. The artifact bucklers on the other hand will have 3x10%=30% chance; 10% less then the steel shields. Add into this the fact that the shield protects more, and it has a heavier weight making it better for bashing, and you will find that the steel masterwork shields work much better then the adamantine bucklers.