The idea is also commonly encountered in science fiction. A large amount of developmental usage was on the early 1960s rocket powered X-15 manned aircraft traveling at hypersonic speeds in excess of Mach 6.5 (roughly 5,000 mph). In contemporary spacecraft, ablative plating is most frequently seen as an ablative heat shield for a vehicle that must enter atmosphere from orbit, such as on nuclear warheads, or space vehicles like the Mars Pathfinder probe. ( December 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īblative armor is armor which prevents damage through the process of ablation, the removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.
Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. And use my Grenadier for more useful things like Salvo.This article possibly contains original research. Still, I'd rather spend moves with my specialists elsewhere, like overwatching with guardian, hacking, or using combat protocol.
Combine that with a very high dodge PCS, and aid protocol, and you'll have a virtually untouchable wall of hard cover that can move.
That gives you 3 or 4 armor pips I think, which is very tanky. It still seems to me that it might have some interesting things with it, such as a grenadier with blast padding. This renders the full-cover benefit to the soldier behind them worthless, because the aliens will prioritize shooting the now flanked soldier in their sights over everything else. Even though you can now move someone up behind them and they will have full cover, your shield-wall soldier is considered flanked (they're standing in the open). However, once you do that, then that soldier is flanked. But you don't want to leave them flapping in the wind and open to flanks, who wants to do that? So you use the shield wall and move someone up into that no man's land. I think it can have some good uses if the right combination of buffs are applied by your other squadmates, but that's a lot of spent moves that might work better for a different strategy.īasically, let's say you deploy it in a no man's land of cover and want to move someone else up, say a Sharpshooter, to get in some sweet pistol kills. The uses of the shield wall are still very.limited. You could move one up to a soldier standing, and it would provide them with hard cover. Kinda like in the last game with Alloy SHIVs. The benefit of using it is to, say, move up to a soldier that is now being flanked and give him some hard cover. The soldier that casts it turns into that heavy cover, but as a side-effect that soldier receives no bonuses. The purpose of the shield wall is to provide full cover where none exists.
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