Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160121121228/@comment-26397825-20160129021244

ACWeapons wrote: To be honest, I expect students who use heavy weapons to be able to wield the weapon pretty well. Look at Cardin and Yatsuhashi. Cardin could use his mace to deflect bullets, and Yatsuhashi could use his giant sword one handed. But they didn't pair their large weapons with large shields. The lance is a fine weapon, but it is not something you pair with a large shield. A buckler is fine, as it's a small shield and can be either attached to the arm or simply held as a punching device, and doesn't interfere with the lances manouverability in any way.

The only characters who do use shields that we have seen so far use much smaller swords than either Cardin's Mace or Yatsuhashi's Sword.