Never look a gift horse in the mouth, and when the GameCraftsmen decide to drop a new bit of kit into the prize fund for a clan war, who are we to complain?
Well, some might but not me...
Especially when its a shield.
Said it before and I'll say it again.. Love a shield!
And with this particular one, the powers that be have hit it spot on.
Proof of this is the fact that just like any good equipment piece, you look at this and you can tell exactly where in your formation you are going to use it.
So what have we got?
A shielding piece that will fit up to 30 tons, so we are talking Alpha with a fraction of Beta class. No actual flat shield strength to mitigate damage, but it will stop 60% of forking damage, 40% of Splash but most importantly, 50% of Trample damage.
Now, I don't know what the resale value of one of these things is... maybe nothing since its a Clan War only swag item. But it doesn't matter your level, you need to keep it.
Lower level, you probably want to save your hard earned niodes and make do with crystal shields... but one of these on your second rank point mech will keep it active for longer, if not by limiting trample damage coming down the line and shutting the mech down before its rank is even active, then by giving some protection against those goldarned Scrub Grubs that are so prevalent at these levels.
But since we have a habit of helping out the newbies here at Galaxy Gathering, I'm goin to tell you exactly which mech this item goes on.
You see, what the crusty old far... I mean, the venerable and esteemed pilots will not have told you is a little tactic we use in those limited tonnage fights.
In limited tonnage, one of the perks is that you get to take the cream of your mechs, gear and weapons and pack them into a few rows then have at it in a glorious orgy of pyrotechnics.
Now back in the day when specialists first started out, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the galaxy was the Torrent, preferably deployed in whole lines. And these Torrent lines would not only fling out fork and wide fork to shut down your whole line in one fell swoop, but they would also top it off with lashings of tramply goodness.
And unto these gods of the arena, we sacrificed Ants....
Seriously, if you didn't want to loose you second rank to trample damage, you stick a single lonely Red Ant in the second rank so that it took all the trample and your big third (really your second) line survives unscathed.
Guess which lucky chap just got him some trample shields.
Oh sure, his survivability is probably the same as a pizza at an IT convention, but you got it for free, it might convince him he could actually get a shot off so everybodys happy.
Just don't snigger when you hand it to him, ok?
Submitted by David McCallum #701548