Talk:Actions/@comment-82.217.119.246-20180726225534/@comment-82.217.119.246-20180728120840

I think the idea breaks down when that reinforced shield cannot be depleted. I encountered the action for the first time recently when playing against an Auzituck gunboat, and I had to read the card three times because I couldn't believe that the token would remain on the ship until the end of the round. The reinforced shield protects you as often as you are attacked, so very theoretically, it can protect the ship from eight hits in one round. That's almost the full health of the ship itself.

And now that I thought about it more, I think it's even more flawed. In the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter PC games, reinforcing your front or rear shield usually came at the cost of weakening shields on the other side. So technically one would need to be penalized somehow on attacks hitting the not-reinforced side of the ship. And I think the whole action should be unavailable once you have lost all your regular shields, since you can't reinforce what's already gone.

I agree that this would make for tedious rules though...