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Shield Captains are AI controlled minions that appear in the campaign and skirmish mode. They are an enhanced variant of the regular Captains but carry a shorter sword and a large shield.

Appearance[]

There are Shield Captains for all three factions and are identifiable by their body size that measure up to other Captains and the unified design of their helmets, body armor, and shield.

  • Viking Shield Captains wear chainmail and leather, while wearing spangenhelm helmets with cloth drapes. They wield round shields and Carolingian swords.
  • Knight Shield Captains wear brigandines along with a kettle helm, individual plates with a chain mail coif. They wield heater shields and arming swords.
  • Samurai Shield Captains wear tosei-gusoku (armor made of horizontal plates), kabuto helmets and mempo, lacking the coat that normal Captains wear. They wield te-date shields and katana.

Keep in mind that these changes are purely aesthetic. All Shield Captains behave the same way.

Combat[]

Shield Captains operate much like a Hero when it comes to Guard Mode, where they can be locked onto and be attacked using combos. And while they too will use the Guard Mode and attack from one of the three sides, their offense is overall weak and simple.

In comparison to the normal Captains, Shield Captains are much more passive, as they prefer playing on the defensive. They have access to a stationary Full Block stance, which allows them to perform a Stab attack (guaranteed against medium to high recovery moves) if they block an attack with the Full Block. This makes the Shield Captain most resemble the Warlord in combat style.

Skirmish[]

Occasionally, Shield Captains will replace or even join together with normal Captains on the field. They will move together with Soldiers, fighting other bands of Captains and Soldiers they encounter. They always spawn on Cinder Mill.

Campaign[]

Shield Captains are rarer in Campaign, but when they do appear, it is usually during major battles or as support. They typically guard mission objective areas, such as the rappel point at the start of "Up the Beach."

Trivia[]

  • Unlike their Soldier counterparts, Captains only exist as male, both through model and voice.
  • During the mission 'Warlords and Cowards' a shield captain can be seen ordered to keep the advancing Blackstones off the walls by Daubeny. Oddly, this shield captain is depicted wielding a Lawbringer's Polearm.
  • The Shield Captain is the only non-Hero NPC to mechanically use a shield. While Soldiers and Pikemen will show animations of them using their shields to block incoming attacks or projectiles, particularly during cutscenes, in actual gameplay the shield are ineffective.
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