Any good tactics vs shields?

[Ace]

Is there any good way to deal with shielded captains? I think I tried everything by now.
p.s. I have only 3 tiers of abilities unlocked atm

[victorzvyagin]

Jump over- Stun- mash attack Button.
Headshots.
Throwing daggers
Explosions
take ur pick

[Ace]

Originally posted by victorzvyagin:

Jump over- Stun- mash attack Button.
Headshots.
Throwing daggers
Explosions
take ur pick

it would work on normal uruks, but captains with shields are immune to range and stealth attacks

[Ace]

explosions won't always work

[victorzvyagin]

Originally posted by Gael:

Originally posted by victorzvyagin:

Jump over- Stun- mash attack Button.
Headshots.
Throwing daggers
Explosions
take ur pick

it would work on normal uruks, but captains with shields are immune to range and stealth attacks

Not all of them are- you need to check their Strengths/Weaknesses

Originally posted by Gael:

explosions won't always work

Wrong- They ALWAYS damage Any type of enemy in This game- however, if they got hate of burns, you might wanna avoid it.

[Ace]

Originally posted by victorzvyagin:

Originally posted by Gael:

it would work on normal uruks, but captains with shields are immune to range and stealth attacks

Not all of them are- you need to check their Strengths/Weaknesses

Originally posted by Gael:

explosions won't always work

Wrong- They ALWAYS damage Any type of enemy in This game- however, if they got hate of burns, you might wanna avoid it.

I mean that bonfires aren't always near you to shoot it

[Ashardalon]

you can attract them closer to bonfires or grog barrels with the ranged attract (g i think? might have rebound that) or just shoot close so that he will investigate the noise

also ranged drain works good as long as there arnt too many others distracting you

also the flies work good, as soon as captains or others start fleeing they loose all immunities
that lets you shoot them or just attack them with no problem from the shields

also not all shielded captains are the same, some cant be jumped, some cant be stealthed
some can
check their stats before you fight, or just try it and run if it fails

[Ace]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

you can attract them closer to bonfires or grog barrels with the ranged attract (g i think? might have rebound that) or just shoot close so that he will investigate the noise

also ranged drain works good as long as there arnt too many others distracting you

also the flies work good, as soon as captains or others start fleeing they loose all immunities
that lets you shoot them or just attack them with no problem from the shields

also not all shielded captains are the same, some cant be jumped, some cant be stealthed
some can
check their stats before you fight, or just try it and run if it fails

I don't gather information about caps before going after them. But I must be the most unfortunate as well, because who else would get captains 16, 17, 18, 19 levels today who are immune to ranged and stealth attacks, have poison and fire weapons and shields xD

[Ashardalon]

i usually dont either, just look around spot a captain
then sneak attack, if that doesnt work run
then come back and shoot him
if that doesnt work run

then it depends on if he said anything about a horn or his boyz
if not then sneak the orks around him dead and then drain him until he dies

if that doesnt work it kinda starts to be time to get some info on what does work

have you tried caragors?

[Ace]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

i usually dont either, just look around spot a captain
then sneak attack, if that doesnt work run
then come back and shoot him
if that doesnt work run

then it depends on if he said anything about a horn or his boyz
if not then sneak the orks around him dead and then drain him until he dies

if that doesnt work it kinda starts to be time to get some info on what does work

have you tried caragors?

Yeap, just found out that caragors work really great vs them, when they are scared, it is easy to beat them, also another thing that seems to work is lethal teleport attack with bow, you can get captain to around half of the hp down with 10 arrows, after that just running around and looking for arrows and repeat

[kintama-=[893]=-]

Unlock vault stun. Easy peasy.

[victorzvyagin]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

you can attract them closer to bonfires or grog barrels with the ranged attract (g i think? might have rebound that) or just shoot close so that he will investigate the noise

also ranged drain works good as long as there arnt too many others distracting you

also the flies work good, as soon as captains or others start fleeing they loose all immunities
that lets you shoot them or just attack them with no problem from the shields

also not all shielded captains are the same, some cant be jumped, some cant be stealthed
some can
check their stats before you fight, or just try it and run if it fails

Pretty Much what Ashardalon said, u Gotta check the Vulnerabilities of a Captain And their Strengths! (use Green- colored uruks in wraith mode to spill details about Captain- Celibrimore's Interrogate ability is your weapon right there) Plan your strategy based on those + Surounding factors too.

[myr]

Originally posted by Gael:

Originally posted by victorzvyagin:

Jump over- Stun- mash attack Button.
Headshots.
Throwing daggers
Explosions
take ur pick

it would work on normal uruks, but captains with shields are immune to range and stealth attacks

than you have to jump over stun do couple hits and again and again until he dies

[Ace]

Originally posted by Viiksivallu:

Originally posted by Gael:

it would work on normal uruks, but captains with shields are immune to range and stealth attacks

than you have to jump over stun do couple hits and again and again until he dies

captains throw you away when you try to jump on them

[Mikey]

Originally posted by Gael:

Originally posted by Viiksivallu:

than you have to jump over stun do couple hits and again and again until he dies

captains throw you away when you try to jump on them

Again not all of them. In fact most don't

It is one of their available strengths that you cannot vault them and just like every other strength or weakness it is random what they have.

1. Archery, try shooting them in the head to see if they are immune to ranged. If you have the leg shot skill then that is awesome for pinning them in place while unloading or when they try to run off. Note that shadow strikes are counted as ranged and can be used to quickly close the distance.

2. Sneak attack. Some of them can be instantly killed with this but only if you have intel saying that, otherwise you do heavy damage again unless they are immune to stealth.

3. Try vaulting over them, if that doesn't work then no you can't (can learn that from the intel before trying... just saying)

4. If vaulting doesn't work keep smashing them until the shield goes bye bye. Shields take damage over time.


I cannot stress how much easier it is to take down a captain if you have gained intel on him. Intel will tell you exactly how to approach the guy and wether or not you want to do hand-to-hand with him.
I once had an enemy that was immune to stealth and ranged while having combat mastery and hate of burning and caragors. Luckily for me he was afraid of morgul flies otherwise it would have been extremely difficult to kill him. Without intel It would have taken forever to figure that out.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Mikey:

Originally posted by Gael:

captains throw you away when you try to jump on them

Again not all of them. In fact most don't

It is one of their available strengths that you cannot vault them and just like every other strength or weakness it is random what they have.

1. Archery, try shooting them in the head to see if they are immune to ranged. If you have the leg shot skill then that is awesome for pinning them in place while unloading or when they try to run off. Note that shadow strikes are counted as ranged and can be used to quickly close the distance.

2. Sneak attack. Some of them can be instantly killed with this but only if you have intel saying that, otherwise you do heavy damage again unless they are immune to stealth.

3. Try vaulting over them, if that doesn't work then no you can't (can learn that from the intel before trying... just saying)

4. If vaulting doesn't work keep smashing them until the shield goes bye bye. Shields take damage over time.


I cannot stress how much easier it is to take down a captain if you have gained intel on him. Intel will tell you exactly how to approach the guy and wether or not you want to do hand-to-hand with him.
I once had an enemy that was immune to stealth and ranged while having combat mastery and hate of burning and caragors. Luckily for me he was afraid of morgul flies otherwise it would have been extremely difficult to kill him. Without intel It would have taken forever to figure that out.

Intel kills all fun for me. It is more interesting to fight without it. And you are talking about wooden shields, you can't jump over iron ones.