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Viking raiders charging across rough terrain (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Excellent. I was personally torn between the wooden round shield and a metal kite shield (for durability and repair purposes), and ended up using a wooden round shield for 80% of my ultra realistic VR Rogue Dungeon-Crawling Experience.

I just figured they were oversized for ease of blocking in VR, but apparently not (red and white one in your photo as a reference), which means they were exceptionally good shields for the time period.