Card Text
(3) Man-High Shield
Egyptian • Armor • Shield (1 Hand)
Wch': Your defense rolls gain +1 against one handed weapons.
Ikr: At the start of any round you may discard this card. If you do, your defense rolls get -1 and you gain +1 speed for this round.
With the bow dominating tactical considerations on the Egyptian battlefield, the extreme size and bulk of these shields was borne out of nesessity.
Illus.: Jim Nelson • Set 2 • 59/100
Warrior Pack
Man-High Shield comes with the Horemheb the Restorer warrior pack.
History in Brief
Trivia
The Man-High Shield...
- is a good example of how armor adapts to opposing weaponry. The cow-hide shields became man-sized to protect bearers from arrows; after run-ins with more mobile armies, the large shields lost favor to smaller styles that included bronze.
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