Warhammer:defensive tanks in sieges
Sieges are a big part of Warhammer,defensive tanks play an absolutely vital role in sieges.

When you're defending, your role is pretty elementary, but vital. Defensive tanks can form an almost impassable wall of shields on top of the ramp to the keep lord room, but not only: Before then, they can still sortie the main door of the keep and knockdown/knockback/harrass the enemy outside, slowing their damage on the doors and giving your allies time to come and defend. Your survivability ensures that you'll have plenty time to get out, do what you need, and then get back in safe.

When you're part of the wall of shield make sure there are healers in your group, because you will be exposed to a rather nasty barrage of spells. If there's none, ask the warband leader to switch a shield to your group, or alternatively to switch you to a group with an healer. Even if you're big, buff and fully geared, you won't survive the barrage if you aren't properly healed.

As an apparent paradox, defensive tanks play a vital role even in attacking keeps. Not only they can stay on the door without too much fear of the oil and of enemy spells (if well healed), but they are basically the only ones that can run up that cursed ramp to the lord room, fire all their defensive abilities, knockdown/back the tank wall, get behind them, cross the lord room, get on the second ramp and start maiming/disabling/harrassing the healers/ranged DPSs perched on it.

This will give your squishier allies a chance to get to the lord room themselves and to kill the tank wall (that if you did your duty will stop receiving as much heals) without being maimed too much by the casters you are harrassing.

Your survivability gives you a decent chance of surviving it to the end. Most other classes (including offensive tanks) would be obliteraded while they're still dealing with the shield wall on top of the first ramp.

When you can walk into stacking rain of fires and pits of shadows receiving ticks of 200 damage (and you have 9000+ HP), you really begin to learn the true power of a defensive tank.

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The thread original by Abriael