lawl so the 9 for huscarls and the 12 for steel shield is not enough to compensate the incompetence of 2h and polearm spammers?
The best shields in history had a weight of 6, 9 at most and those shields were practically unbreakable.
In game, the elite cavalry shield "dies" in 1 axe or 2 sword hits, the huscarls in 2-3 hits, the only shield that survives a few axe hits is the steel shield and it makes you slower than the 2h/polearm tincan with his super light long hafted blade/ great sword what is totally bull shit
huge 2h and polearms weight is a lot more than those of shields
when the steel shield has to have a weight of 12, the great sword would have a weight of 15.
Warband and crpg even more privileges 2h/polearms so much..............in rl history there were no pure 2h/polearm guys for a simple reason, they suck in real life battle, ranged can kill them, and 1hshield pwns 2h/pole in real life in close/ organized melee combat............I know this is an arcade game and its necessary to make 2h/polearm so ridiculous easy to satisfy all the bad players and kids that need a weapon that is superfast, crazy damage and insane reach to get some kills but its enough now.
Again, those people who want to run around with a 1h (no shield) or a pike (nothing else) they seek the challange, or maybe havent understood battle yet, whatever, those 2h/polearm "noobs" that think 1h/shield is easy still have to bring the proof that they can get more kills with this class...........players that get many kills as 1h/shield would get tons of kills as 2h...........some have even done for example Merc_Cyber (1h/shield)/ Cyber Hero (2h) etc..........the other way around, from 2h/polearm to 1h/shield you find out very soon what the real easy mode is in crpg.
the main (and only) reason why good players prefer using a shield is because they want to play the game and not hide in the hay........hide behind walls........hide behind friendly turtlers..........then come out, sneak behind the enemy and backstab........2h/polearm is so incredible boring after you have done it for some weeks...........most of the time is waiting.......(except you are some Nerd like Bjord that can rush in and kill many before he goes down, and then can trashtalk everyone when hes dead =P))
