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Spish

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Re: Artifact platinum shield.
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2012, 08:09:24 pm »
It certainly would be... if bucklers actually had weapon stats :P
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Re: Artifact platinum shield.
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2012, 08:22:05 pm »
IIRC bucklers have a lesser chance to block and are also lighter. The plus for them being that they can be made of wood, or a total of less metal bars (if it wasn't bugged). Therefore, shields are better.
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Re: Artifact platinum shield.
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2012, 08:22:46 pm »
oh you most definitely can cave in a gob's skull with a shield.

Copper is prefered, due to being the heaviest metal you can make shields of IIRC.
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« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2012, 08:36:31 pm »
I've had one of my Urist McAverage spear dwarves kill an elf with his +willow shield+ by smashing in elf's skull in.  And he spear wasn't currently lodged firmly in the wound at the time either, so I think that debunks the "only bashes when the weapon is stuck" myth.  He stabbed one elf in the arm, then the foot, then smashed the skull with his sheild, stabbed a different (unconscious) elf in the brain, then began poking holes in a third elf, iirc.

Regardless of what weapon the soldier is equipped with, he will both draw attention, and be able to deal with most of it, using a platinum shield, I think.  You still can't send him in alone, as that will get him killed, but with a proper group of fellow soldiers, he should rack up quite a list of kills.
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Re: Artifact platinum shield.
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2012, 08:55:16 pm »
Quote from: Mitchewawa on February 22, 2012, 08:22:05 pm
IIRC bucklers have a lesser chance to block and are also lighter. The plus for them being that they can be made of wood, or a total of less metal bars (if it wasn't bugged). Therefore, shields are better.

Shields can also be made out of wood. There appears to be not much difference between bucklers and shields other than their size, and they both block as well as each other :/
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Re: Artifact platinum shield.
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2012, 09:03:14 pm »
Quote from: Berserkenstein on February 22, 2012, 06:34:26 pm
Quote from: Girlinhat on February 22, 2012, 06:11:25 pm
Nothing like a shield with a kill list.
Even better when in adventure mode killing people by throwing the shield Captain America style.
What we're saying is split off a copy of the save file, store the shield in a lead bin, abandon, make a throwing-specialist adventurer, and get that beeyatch.
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