#BEST PARTS FOR A HOPLITE SHIELD HOW TO#
#BEST PARTS FOR A HOPLITE SHIELD FREE#

Bronze or leather greaves ( 881006, 200854) were worn to protect the lower legs as they were not covered by the shield.

Legend says that a Spartan warrior was given his shield by his mother and instructed to “come back with it…or on it.” This meant come back in victory with your shield or dead and carried on it.Īs a shield covered a hoplite from the chin all the way to the knee, other armor was sparse. The shield was so important that the Spartans implemented a system where any Spartan warrior who lost his shield was severely punished and often killed. Because of this, the shield became a symbol of unity as each man both defended others and relied on others for defense. Worn on the left arm, it provided some protection for the owner while at the same time offering additional protection to the man to the left of the owner. Each shield was round and approximately 36” to 38” in diameter. This gave it incredible strength while at the same time not making it so heavy that it became unusable. The shield was made of overlapping planks of wood covered in leather, with the face of the shield covered completely in a thin sheet of bronze. Now I've seen in the comments you've aimed for 95 thrust, that certainly does make a difference however if you're caught off guard that thrust can't do anything to help you out, that said I'm not sure how good you are with using active guard but if you were an S- I would be surprised you'd ask us haha.Ĭould experiment though if you want to master making heavy use of the active guard, you could lower the melee resistance and keep the beam up and use active guard to instead tank melee strikes while keeping the beam resistance up for when a support fires at you and have more thrust, but I would recommend saving that for perhaps quick match, if you can get good with that maybe you'd be an active guard master.A hoplite’s most important piece of equipment, and what gave the hoplite its name, is the hoplon, the shield ( 881004). Last one was just filler, currently mine doesn't have max slots but if I could I would adjust the build so you retain 40+ on beam and melee resistance and put in more thrust for more use of the active guard as well as making better use of the maneuver armor, you do NOT want to sit there and rely on the active guard for too much as people will simply wait you out, use it short and sparingly and just keep moving via maneuver armor and just tank hits as you draw closer/retreat from enemies. Now then, SPECIFICALLY, for the jesta, I recommend mine, simple enough, this one is specifically for ground combat

#BEST PARTS FOR A HOPLITE SHIELD HOW TO#

You actually know how to use the shield (back peddling brings it out infront of you, and some units have it in unique places ie certain gelgoogs have it on their back and angelo zulu has it cross body most of the time). You simply have spare slots and can't stuff in more health You have a comically large shield to abuse ie gp02 I'd like to also add only use shield parts in the following circumstances Wut, no god no, cooling parts only decrease thruster cool downs and despite the changes to some if you want more thrust to RUN AWAY from battles straight up thruster parts and general management of them is a better part to have. I use cooling and control systems to increase my shield time

#BEST PARTS FOR A HOPLITE SHIELD FREE#

Health and resistances, always, at low cost ballistic/melee, at high cost (450 onwards) beam and melee defense (unless you have enough free slots, my nu gundam has 40 resistances across the board), for 400+ units 19-20k+ health is good as only units that either have lvl4's at 700 or built to sit there like the xamel need to go any higher than 20k and really getting 2k health for it to be wiped off isn't a good trade off but if your unit has enough slots and can bump up the resistances it's worth it as stacking both is great.Ħ50+ units REALLY do need 40+, especially at 700 as hitting the max of 50 still isn't enough when you're being pelted too much. What are the best parts to use to maximize defense? Shield parts only help if the unit actually has a shield under it's equipment, for the jesta it isn't a shield but a part of it's body, so it gets a shoulder part buffer instead, if you're not sure if a unit actually has a shield, check the equipment, an example also being the geara doga which has a shield model but it's not listed under its equipment so it counts as part of its body instead (but the geara zulu HAS a shield despite being the same make wtf)Īnd just to add, shield parts only help shield health, but I'm guessing you already know that but just making sure, it's monday afterall.

Best parts for a hoplite shield