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Renojustin:

Nah, that isn't so easy. I think eye shield has MR check, so to work it against good SC with MR above 20 he needs to hit you like 30-50 times to lose just one eye.

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Chi boots.
Can turn any denizen of Dominions into a Bruce Lee - like killing machine.

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I know I like to GoR militia and kit them with chi boots and horned helm.

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In one of my current games I have a Nataraja (is that right? the four-armed pretender god) with four swords of swiftness, a stone bird, dancing trident, chi shoes and horned helm. Plus, he can cast Quickness!

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And he can fatigue out in approximately three battle rounds? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Eye shield ends up taking out the eyes of units with quite high MR with very good probability. And I didn't say to use it against an SC.

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Eye shields take out eyes with great regularity. It really does not take much... hit a unit with an eye shield.. you lose an eye. Hit him again, you lose the other eye.

That is why SCs with an Eye Shield are so rarely targeted by other SCs. They don't want to go blind. It is an extremely nice fear tactic.

I know you may throw some game statistics at me, but just forge one, use it, and watch. The Eye Shield almost always causes eye loss when the unit bearing it is hit.

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...damn you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

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Actually, fatigue comes from "action". Number of weapons you use in one "attack" doesn't affect encumberance at all. Amount of fatigue you get per turn of melee equals "melee encumberance", even if you have 15 attacks such as with the Bow of War. If you have quickness, it's twice that every turn.

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I like to put the Sickle whose crop is pain on four armed types with every quickness item I can forge. Generates 20 to 30 death gems every battle. Of course you have to remember to transfer them to another commander after every battle, which does seem to pose a few problems for me.