I was thinking about this the other day, and a possible solution. I'm not sure on how to word it in Rule-ese, but have the Power Shields count as a seperate unit for hit allocation.

Example, a Paladin Formation has 3 Power Shields. Opponent shoots with a Raider Formation, getting 3 hits. First gets assigned to the Power Shields, dropping one. The rest get assigned as normal, relying on the 4+RA save to get them through. It gets fired on again by Predators. Same principle applies.

This means small popcorn formations are likely to break Knights through accumulated BM's, but large volumes of fire have a capacity to actually kill them without having to shred through the shields.

I dunno, just a suggestion.

Morgan Vening

I'd write it as "at least one hit from each round of shooting must be allocated to a power shield before hits may be allocated to the Knights." Or somesuch.

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It seems very clunky, considering we had to find a work around in the current rules to let them have this many shields without going into fiddly details, finding a workaround to make the shields have less of an effect means thay we may just as well give them an invulnerable 5+ save and save a lot of complications.

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Here we have the latest report, 2600pts marines vs knights.

To sum it up the unit under the shields is too good, but I think everyone knows that by now.

I'll be giving the list a 3-4k test next Thursday as I should have my 3 crusaders and 3 Castellans in by then.