<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Void shields"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Void shields In some of the BL books there are personal ,man portable, void shields. In some of the Gaunt's Ghosts stories for example. My question is
why are there no void shields on imperial vehicles. I mean if you can construct man portable ones there should be the possibility to build some for
vehicles too?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143949.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143949.page GMT Void shields http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143966.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143966.page GMT Void shields http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143969.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143969.page GMT Void shields
In 2nd Ed we had power fields, which were man portable, but encumbered the user like heavy weapons. There were a wargear card so weren't common issue.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143987.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10143987.page GMT Void shields
Note however that at the time of the Great Crusade - the Imperium's technological zenith - this was a one-per-army, "we don't know how it works" artefact. The Imperial expeditionary fleets found some occasionally but don't know how to make or maintain them.

Sub void shield energy fields on tanks do pop up occasionally - like the flare shield or ion shield, or atomantic shielding on contemptor dreadnoughts - but tanks are in that wierd bracket where they're hard to shield; they need a field massively larger than one to protect a single man, but they don't have the massive spare power of something the size of a Knight or Titan with a huge plasma reactor.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10144443.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10144443.page GMT Re:Void shields
Hmm Does this diamond ring digital laser go with my conversion field bracelet or should I go for the ruby flamer ring and the Displacer field necklace.


I had not come across Void Shields able to be worn tbh. I guess a Jokaro or similar could do it...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10144479.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10144479.page GMT Re:Void shields http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10148911.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10148911.page GMT Re:Void shields http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149194.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149194.page GMT Re:Void shields
 Mr Morden wrote:
Force fields are not uncommon in the fluff where Inquisitors and Rogue Traders have a vast armoury to pick and choose from.

Hmm Does this diamond ring digital laser go with my conversion field bracelet or should I go for the ruby flamer ring and the Displacer field necklace.


I had not come across Void Shields able to be worn tbh. I guess a Jokaro or similar could do it...


Mind you force/power fields are bit different than void fields. There are various fields. Void fields are the most powerful protection. Person held force/power fields are more common but are NOT void fields and aren't as powerful either.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149293.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149293.page GMT Void shields
Space marines captains carry an Iron Halo and cappelans carry the Rosarius wich both produce a Force field to protect their user.

Imperial guard officers often carry refractors shield wich can protect them from incoming fire.

Also in the fluff smaller most specific ones also exits, a quick example when Jes Goodwin designed most of the Eldar he developed *Forcefield Helmets* to explain why some of the Exarchs/Autarchs often battle without a physical one.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149364.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149364.page GMT Re:Void shields
People could wear or carry a number of powerfields. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149546.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149546.page GMT Void shields
Their operation is not particularly well described but possibly a pocket-dimension generator that dumps all incoming energy into it and then collapses when the portal/field is compromised, before spooling back up and re-establishing a new pocket dimension.

Power fields create a solid energy 'wall' of sorts, blocking incoming energy by pushing out more energy which eventually burns out the generator. Some powerfields will shrink when damaged to reduce the load and stave off burnout, and most flicker on and off to allow fire out of the field (in the old titanicus game a titan that got a shot through a power field would ignore it with all subsequent shots in the same turn to represent its auspexes locking on to the current flicker pattern)

Iron Halos are, IIRC, power fields. The rosarius is/was a conversion field.

Refractor fields worked by spreading the energy of the hit out across the skin of the field but were also notable for creating a visible energy haze while active.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149612.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149612.page GMT Void shields 2nd ed power fields were 2++iirc.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149622.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10149622.page GMT Void shields
 Flinty wrote:
Any 3++ is a displacer, 4++ is a conversion and 5++ is a refractor in my book 2nd ed power fields were 2++iirc.


Seconded. Iron halo???? That’s just a fancy bauble with a conversion field in it. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10151629.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763476/10151629.page GMT