Hello Fellow Duelers,

I've been thinking for a long time about those mysterious numbers printed inside the shields on the characters equipment. Since Wizkids has so far been silent even in the prerelease rules I've decided to throw out a couple of my favorite theories.

Theory one: The number in the shield is added to the body stat of the figure so that if an attack using that color dice rolls above the body value plus the shield value the shield is negated. An example: Kyushi has a body value of 6 and a is wearing her vest which has a yellow shield with a "6" printed in it. Street Deacon is rolling a close combat attack against her. If his dice total 12 or less the shield reduces damage against her by 1 as normal. If he rolls 13 or more the shield is negated and he does his full damage.

Theory two: The shield would block a die of up to the value in the shield. In other words a yellow shield with a "6" in it would block one die of up to d6 value. A "4" would block up to d4.

I've come up with and playtested a lot of other theories using the promo figures and the above two seem to work the best. The give the shields value without making them overly powerful which would be in line with the shields low slot value.

Time to fade back into the darkness,

Later friends,

Raven

I think the most likely rule will be that the vest will block damage of the dice type and color shown. So Kellan's vest would block the damage from a yellow d6 and a blue d4. This seems to be the simplest and most logical rule, and WizKids likes to keep things as basic as possible.

i have to agree with blocking the die type theory too. for instnance, if you're wearing a die that blocks a d6 and you git hit by a rocket, you're still gonna hurt.

I'd go with die type too...

if it has a yellow 6. That means it can block a four and six sided dice. but cant stop aces.hope this helps

Actually, I'm going with thump. A yellow 6 blocks 4 and 6 sided.

Thank you but nothing stops an ace.

No, nothing stops an ace...

But they don't add to attack either.

And at least some damage must make it through on the other dice for aces to count, as far as my understand was. I'll check the rules again here in a bit.

Athenor

plz do. Ace's are zero's when rolled but they do 1 clix of damage no matter what PLUS they have some kind of abitly that goes along with them, in the case of red d4's its one more clix of damage.

Just to reiterate, Aces do NOT automatically do one click of damage. The attack must be successful in order for damage to be dealt.

And I laugh sinisterly at the speculation in this thread.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Thank you Kelly for taking the time to provide us with a definative answer to the "aces" question. It's good to know your out there watching.

Regards,

Raven

so....what is the definitive answer to the # on the shields? That is what the original question was here....

The extended dance mix Shadowrun rules will answer that question.

Time will tell . . .

:p

just to throw some more speculation into the ring, how about instead of blocking a specific die type (d4, d6) the shield blocked any die roll of that value or lower. so if your opponent rolls a yellow d12, you still have a 50% chance Kellan's vest will block it