Editing Shield (section)

====Boarding Shield====
[[File:Boarding shield.PNG|thumb|100px|Boarding Shield]]
The Combat Shield's bigger brother. A pre-Horus Heresy relic of the time before the discovery of the Storm Shield STC, Boarding Shields (also known as Breacher Shields) are massive slabs of pure metal that were once favored by the Legiones Astartes for their effectiveness in boarding actions & defending from them (hence their more common name). Their disruption fields were tuned to protect against both close combat and ranged weapons (though the shield's size and weight meant that said molecular disruption fields couldn't be easily repurposed for smashing heretics), with many being designed to have a slot for their wielder's gun to shoot through. Due to their role, they were commonly paired with [[Power Armour#Mark III: Iron Armour|MKIII Power Armour]].

However, due to both the Horus Heresy fucking everyone over and Storm Shields having much better protective capabilities at a fraction of the weight, they would be phased out and replaced. The few remaining in the 41st millennium are now prized relics of the Chapters that have them, or were taken with the traitors. They are now commonly associated with the [[Imperial Fists]] and the [[Iron Warriors]].
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File:Phalanx Warder Sarge..webp|An [[Imperial Fists]] Legion Phalanx Warder Sergeant with a Boarding Shield
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