Shielded

Shielded is a tooltip bulletpoint for units. It indicates that they possess an innate missile block chance, meaning that a certain percentage of small missiles (such as most arrows, bullets, magical bolts from Pink or Blue Horrors of Tzeentch, javelins or blowdarts; but not cannonballs, Cygor rocks, Shem's Burning Gaze or arrows from Alith Anar) that hit the unit from the front are blocked completely, dealing no damage. Thus, it must not be confused with Missile Resistance, which applies from all angles and is a simple percentage reduction in damage of any missile attack that hits.
Armour and resistances are only relevant to any missile attack after the missile block chance has been bypassed. 
A unit benefiting from the Shielded effect is identified with a shield icon next to its armour value in the unit panel. Currently, there are 5 tiers for Shielded effects with varying percentage of blocked damage which are differentiated with colour-coded icons (35% and below or 55% and above share the same icon at moment).
* = 20%
* = 30%
* = 35%
* = 55%
* = 60%
== Tooltip description ==
ShieldedThis unit has a shield and will block xx% of all small-arms missile fire hitting it from the front.
== Notable units ==
There is a large number of units in the game with the Shielded effect - many are listed below.
 = 20%
* Dark Elves' Sisters of Slaughter whip infantry unit
* High Elves' Loremaster of Hoeth wizard hero
* High Elves' Swordmasters of Hoeth greatsword infantry unit
 = 30%
* Beastmen's Centigors bestial cavalry unit
* Dwarfs' Slayers and Dragonback Slayers (Slayers) axe infantry units
* Greenskins' Forest Goblin Spider Riders cavalry unit
* Greenskins' Goblin Wolf Riders and Moon-howlers (Goblin Wolf Riders) cavalry units
* Greenskins' Orc Boar Boyz shock cavalry unit
* High Elves' Silver Helms (Shields) shock cavalry unit
* Lizardmen's Cold One Riders cold one cavalry unit
* Lizardmen's Cold One Spear-Riders, Blessed Cold One Spear-Riders and Pok-Hopak Cohort (Cold One Spear-Riders) cold one cavalry units
* Lizardmen's Horned Ones and Blessed Horned Ones cavalry units
* Norsca's Marauder Horsemen (Throwing Axes) missile cavalry unit
* The Empire's Demigryph Knights monstrous shock cavalry unit
* The Empire's Empire Knights shock cavalry unit
* The Empire's Knights of the Blazing Sun shock cavalry unit
* The Empire's Reiksguard and Zintler's Reiksguard (Reiksguard) shock cavalry units
* Tomb Kings' Necropolis Knights monstrous cavalry unit
* Tomb Kings' Nehekara Horsemen cavalry unit
* Tomb Kings' Skeleton Horsemen spear cavalry unit
* Vampire Counts' Black Knights, Black Knights (Lances & Barding) and Verek's Reavers (Black Knights - Lances & Barding) cavalry units
* Vampire Counts' Blood Knights shock cavalry unit
* Warriors of Chaos' Chaos Knights and Swords of Chaos (Chaos Knights) cavalry units
* Warriors of Chaos' Chaos Knights (Lances) shock cavalry unit
* Warriors of Chaos' Marauder Horsemen (Throwing Axes) missile cavalry unit
 = 35%
* Beastmen's Gor Herd (Shields) and Black-Horn's Ravagers (Gor Herd - Shields) spear infantry units
* Beastmen's Ungor Herd axe infantry unit
* Beastmen's Ungor Spearmen Herd (Shields) and Destroyers of the Drakwald (Ungor Spearmen Herd - Shields) spear infantry units
* Bretonnia's Boris Todbringer unique sword infantry lord
* Dark Elves' Cold One Knights cold one spear cavalry unit
* Dark Elves' Cold One Dread Knights and Knights of the Ebon Claw (Dread Knights) cold one cavalry units
* Dark Elves' Dark Riders (Shields) shock cavalry unit
* Dwarfs' Bugman's Rangers missile infantry unit
* Dwarfs' Dwarf Warriors and Warriors of Dragonfire Pass (Dwarf Warriors) axe infantry units
* Dwarfs' Ironbreakers and Norgrimlings Ironbreakers (Ironbreakers) axe infantry units
* Dwarfs' Longbeards axe infantry unit
* Dwarfs' Lord axe infantry lord
* Dwarfs' Quarrellers missile infantry unit
* Dwarfs' Rangers missile infantry unit
* Dwarfs' Thane melee specialist hero
* Dwarfs' Thunderers missile infantry unit
* Greenskins' Orc Boyz sword infantry unit
* Greenskins' Orc Warboss sword infantry lord
* High Elves' Dragon Princes and The Fireborn (Dragon Princes) shock cavalry units
* Lizardmen's Saurus Oldblood mace infantry lord
* Lizardmen's Saurus Scar-Veteran melee specialist hero
* Lizardmen's Saurus Spears (Shields), Blessed Saurus Spears (Shields) and Legion of Chaqua (Saurus Spears) spear infantry units
* Lizardmen's Saurus Warriors (Shields) and Blessed Saurus Warriors (Shields) mace infantry units
* Lizardmen's Skink Cohort cudgel infantry unit
* Lizardmen's Skink Cohort (Javelins) missile infantry unit
* Lizardmen's Temple Guards, Blessed Temple Guards and Star Chamber Guardians (Temple Guards) halberd infantry unit
* Norsca's Marauder Chieftain axe infantry lord
* Norsca's Marauders and Icehorn Marauders (Marauders) axe infantry units
* Norsca's Marauder Champions axe infantry unit
* Skaven's Clarats (Shields) and Clan Vulkn Tailslashers (Clanrats-Shields) sword infantry units
* Skaven's Clanrat Spears (Shields) spear infantry unit
* Skaven's Stormvermin (Sword & Shield) sword infantry unit
* Skaven's Warlord sword infantry lord
* Skaven's Warplock Jezzails and Natty Buboe's Sharpshooters (Warplock Jezzails) weapon team units
* The Empire's Empire Captain melee specialist hero
* The Empire's General of the Empire sword infantry lord
* The Empire's Spearman (Shields) spear infantry unit
* The Empire's Swordsmen and Sigmar's Sons (Swordsmen) sword infantry units
* Vampire Counts' Skeleton Spearmen spear infantry unit
* Vampire Counts' Skeleton Warriors and The Konigstein Stalkers (Skeleton Warriors) sword infantry units
* Vampire Counts' The Red Duke legendary wizard lord
* Vampire Counts' Vampire Lord and Von Carstein Vampire Lord wizard lords
* Warriors of Chaos' Marauders axe infantry unit
 = 55%
* Beastmen's Minotaurs (Shields) and Butchers of Kalkengard (Minotaurs - Shields) monstrous infantry units
* Beastmen's Wargor melee specialist hero
* Dark Elves' Bleakswords sword infantry unit
* Dark Elves' Darkshards (Shields) and The Bolt-fiends (Darkshards - Shields) missile infantry units
* Dark Elves' Dreadlord (Sword & Shield) sword infantry lord
* Dark Elves' Dreadspears and The Hellebronai (Dreadspears) spear infantry units
* Dark Elves' Master melee specialist hero
* Dwarfs' Belegar Ironhammer legendary hammer infantry lord
* Greenskins' Black Orc Big Boss melee specialist hero
* Greenskins' Goblins spear infantry unit
* Greenskins' Goblin Big Boss melee specialist hero
* Greenskins' Night Goblins, Night Goblins (Fanatics), Da Eight Peak Loonies (Night Goblins – Fanatics) and Da Warlord's Boyz (Night Goblins) sword infantry units
* Greenskins' Night Goblin Warboss sword infantry lord
* High Elves' Lothern Sea Guard (Shields) missile and spear infantry unit
* High Elves' Prince sword infantry lord
* High Elves' Silvering Guard spear infantry unit
* High Elves' Spearmen and The Scions of Mathlann (Spearmen) spear infantry units
* Lizardmen's Gor-Rok legendary mace infantry lord
* Norsca's Wulfrik the Wanderer legendary sword infantry lord
* The Empire's Boris Todbringer unique sword infantry lord
* Tomb Kings' Skeleton Spearmen and King Nekhesh's Scorpion Legion (Skeleton Spearmen) spear infantry units
* Tomb Kings' Skeleton Warriors sword infantry unit
* Tomb Kings' Tomb Guard sword infantry unit
* Tomb Kings' Tomb King sword infantry lord
* Tomb Kings' Tomb Prince halberd infantry hero
* Vampire Counts' Grave Guard and The Sternsmen (Grave Guard) sword infantry units
* Vampire Counts' Wight King melee specialist hero
* Warriors of Chaos' Aspiring Champions sword infantry unit
* Warriors of Chaos' Chaos Lord lord
* Warriors of Chaos' Chaos Warriors and Mirror Guard (Chaos Warriors) axe infantry units
* Warriors of Chaos' Exalted Hero melee specialist hero
* Warriors of Chaos' Prince Sigvald the Magnificent legendary sword infantry lord
 = 60%
* Dark Elves' Malekith legendary wizard lord
* Warriors of Chaos' Archaon the Everchosen legendary wizard lord
* Warriors of Chaos' Chosen axe infantry unit
==Interactions==
Shielded interacts with a few abilities, ancillaries and traits to enable mixed bonuses such as:
* Debuffed by the Shieldbreaker contact effect
==Trivia==
*The unit with a Shielded effect and the lowest armour value, at 0, is the Dwarfs' Slayers axe infantry unit with = 30%.
*The unit with a Shielded effect and the highest armour value, at 125, is the Dwarfs' Ironbreakers axe infantry unit with = 35%.
*The Vampire Coast have no shielded units on their roster.
* Although wizards are usually perceived as having weak physical armour in lore, two of the most heavily shielded units are none other than legendary wizard lords Archaon the Everchosen and Malekith.
==History ==
This effect is one of the oldest in the Total War: Warhammer game series and has been iterated over time. Originally, there were only 4 tiers for Shielded effects with varying percentage of blocked damage which were differentiated with unique colour-coded icons, namely:
* = 20%, so-called bronze tier
* = 40%, so-called iron tier
* = 60%, so-called silver tier
* = 80%, so-called gold tier
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