Do shields not give additional bonuses in MKII?

[GasmaskGreg]

I was looking at the MKII rules for the Spriggan and I noticed that it's armor was a flat 19.
I cross-referenced this with some other 'jacks that sported a shield-arm and found the same thing.
Does MKII remove the armor bonuses for wielding a shield? Or am I missing something?

[Balewin]

Now I don't know for sure but I"m willing to bet having a shield arm for a warjack is now a common rule in the core rules rather than something they post on the card.

[phantem2]

Right, the stats has an ability under the Shield called 'shield' which means that he has a +2 armor against attacks coming from his front arc, if I recall the rules correctly.

[Skarburn]

Correct.

10 digits.

[GasmaskGreg]

Oh, cool. Thank you kindly gentlemen.

[Khador247]

Also, if the arm with the shield on it becomes crippled then you lose the armor bonus. You can still attack with that arm but with one less attack and damage dice.

[GasmaskGreg]

Makes sense.

[Tevesh]

Also, it makes Chain Weapon users a bit easier to use. You don't have to do math of whether its a Buckler or a Shield. The ARM value is on the card, so nothing to figure out.

Which is nice for the Devastator. :)

[Michael]

Take a look in the latest rule updates here: http://files.privateerpress.com/warmachine/Mk2_Rule_Prerelease_20091124.pdf

There's a section that explains the bonuses for Bucklers and Shields. The bonuses are no longer printed on the cards.