Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24749544-20170926092409/@comment-31094009-20170926214201

While avoiding the tactics of fighting back than, or politics nowadays, but I can see a couple situations were fighting monsters without a shield can be beneficial. First off using a shield can be related to wearing a helmet in football, the illusion of someone's invincibility, using a shield while fighting a monster might give you more protection but along with this it can also give you the increased feeling of protection, which can be beneficial or dangerous as your not thinking clearly about the fact that you are still in mortal danger. Also the majority of the things these demigods are fighting seem to have powers that can negate the protection that shields give. Like the Persian monster in the third book, a dart can dent a magical shield that was made by a cyclops from enchanted bronze. So while, yes fighting against other weapon wielding demigods without shields seems, and probably is stupid, the fighting against mythical beings cannot be compared to mortals, because if a dart can prevent the usage of a shield I cannot even imagine what would happen if one monster found out how pilum were used.