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I can understand spearmen having tiny sheilds being basic infantry but swordsmen are supposedly veterans who have saved up some money. (or so the description says) The swordsman's sheild is barely any larger then the size of a dinner plate and just wouldn't do any good in combat.

So now I will attempt to defend my topic from the obvious responses:

1. Wesnoth is not to scale
Yet a troll is larger then a human, a dwarf is shorter and a royal guard gets a realistically sized sheild.

2. Wesnoth is not realistic
The following units all have realistically sized sheilds:
Mountain lord
General + upgrade
Dark elf lord
sheild bearer
sheild guard + upgrade
Arif +upgrades
that lvl 2 celestial sheild guy with the fire sword
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Troll rocklobbers deal impact damage not blade damage which is less realistic

Frankly I can't think of a single sheild using unit that has an unrealistically proportioned sheild like the swordsman and spearman. You could argue that swordsmen use tiny sheilds to parry their opponents blows and quickly counterstrike but if that was the case then why the suit of armour?

So wesnoth forumers where is the love for the swordsman?
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Bucklers. Look into them.

Tower shields are nice to hide behind, bucklers are for parrying.
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...and where have you gotten the idea that the royal guard, general etc have a "realistically sized shield" and that the swordsman doesn't? :?

It's a buckler. Why would a swordsman want a massive tower shield?
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In the scale of the sprite, the shield is about 2 feet across. That's about the size of, oh, say, a shield. :wink:
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Units differ from eachother, and even if two units are closely banded together, they still differ from eachother.
As example you can take a level 1 unit and level it up to level 2 where you sometimes get two choices, and even rarely is that you can level it up to level 3, but there is another character in level 3 depending on what unit you chose on level 2.
As example I'll take the Elvish Fighter, it reaches level 2 and you can decide to let it be an Elvish Hero or an Elvish Captain, these two differ from eachother, as the Elvish Captain relies more on actually being a ''captain'' and leading it's army rather then being a Hero which relies more on it's power and not on being a teamleader such as a captain, which these all you can find when you level up the hero and captain. Now what has this to do with this topic? It lets you realise the different between a Royal Guard and a Swordsman, as some of you were discussing about that, a swordsman has to use it's sword effectively, and a tower shield can be an obstacle for that, so it got a smaller shield. The Royal Guard has the tower shield because he relies more on defense rather then attacks, because thats his job, just like how the captain and hero differ from eachother. Now if you think that the shield of the swordsman looks like a dinner plate, that's fine with me, everyone got their opinions, but honestly, I laughed a bit when I saw this topic title. Hilarious! :lol2:
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Fine you win this round but I will be back with something else to nitpick. :augh:
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sam_waz_here wrote:Fine you win this round but I will be back with something else to nitpick. :augh:
I'll be looking forward on your next topic title. :D
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As an afterthought: I _have_ seen dinner plates the size of bucklers, but they usually weren't made out of metal. ;)
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sam_waz_here wrote:Fine you win this round but I will be back with something else to nitpick. :augh:
Next time you do nitpick I recommend spelling "shield" correctly. Tends to lend credibility and all that.
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I nitpick your game you nitpick my spelling lets agree to disagree.
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May I wonder... what are you trying to achieve with all these witty questions?
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Shadow Master wrote:May I wonder... what are you trying to achieve with all these witty questions?
Other then the illusion that I have wit?
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oh, witty banter, do let me join.

Don't make tons of random topics, if you want, just make one topic with an appropriately witty title, and put all your trick questions there. I know it' only the users' forum, but try not to own too much of the front page
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Ok i'm just used to forums moving much faster so within hours all my topics are on the third page. But if that's what you want then i'll slow down on the posting. Is there a post limit per day in these forums?
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sam_waz_here wrote:Ok i'm just used to forums moving much faster so within hours all my topics are on the third page. But if that's what you want then i'll slow down on the posting. Is there a post limit per day in these forums?
No, but these forums are not just to play around in, they're for developing the game. So don't make a post unless it's actually going to be useful.
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