"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, what did they produce? The cuckoo clock." -Orson Welles
Shields are like clothes, the first thing to come off. Armor is like a penis, works better when hardened. Structure is like a vagina, once you're in it, you're fucked.