Those held with a strap can allow you to hold something in your hand like a torch or a backup weapon to throw at an enemy before melee starts. Underneath that is a reproduction of a boss held Viking Shield by the merchant Armstreet and a plate from Capo Ferro with fighters holding strapped shields of a type I categorize as “war shields”. Below is a buckler or what I categorize as a “Dueling Shield” from a site called Steel Master.
Those held in a boss grip and those held with a strap. It seems a bit strange to have them be treated as effectively the same.įor roleplaying purposes, there are two major splits with shields. One thing to consider is that the difference between a small buckler and a tower shield is greater than the difference between a dagger and a greatsword. Rather than making a whole lot of distinctions between bucklers, bucklers with sharp points on them, rotellas, targes, targas, rotellas, tower shields, kite shields, and Viking shields I’m just going to make a few categories for them to fall into. There are lots of different shields in history and they are used a lot more like a weapon than depicted in movies and television where shields just passively sit on your arm like a piece of armor rather than an active participant in the battle. The image shows each with an arming sword and a boss held buckler. Featured Image from i33 the earliest known martial art treatise from the middle ages.
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