Threat
1. You are loaded and lit up
A rival has you in the pocket. Running empty might save you — but the haul is the point. You need a way to take the hit without spilling.
Shields · growth_shields_20261005
Hold the shield. Absorb the hit. Keep the haul.
CLASHROIDS shields are the hold-to-absorb answer when a rival opens up on your loaded ship: drain power to soak damage, stay alive through the pocket, and keep flying toward the bank instead of spilling scrap. Free in the browser. Steam Coming Soon (app 4296990) — wishlist toward 10K+.
The shield loop
Hold
2. Hold to absorb
Shield is hold-to-activate damage absorption. Power drains while it is up. Time the hold for the burst that would otherwise break you.
Survive
3. Ride through the pocket
Soak the opening volley, keep thrust, and leave the kill pocket still flying. A living loaded ship still has a bank run.
Bank
4. Keep the haul
Reach the bank with what you held. Shield did not win a duel for you — it bought the seconds that turned a drop into a lock.
Why shields matter
- » Hold absorb → survive the hit → keep flying with the haul → bank.
- Loaded ships die loud. Shield is the active answer that spends power so scrap stays in your hold instead of theirs.
- Distinct from punch-afterburner boosters, short-range blink warp, scatter-denial mines, planted turrets, and open-duel dogfight — shields are soak-and-survive, not speed or denial.
- No invented keybinds, absorb numbers, power timers, or Lab steps — just hold, soak, fly, bank.
- Wishlist on Steam so Early Access fleets land with soak already in muscle memory.
Go deeper
- Cargo — fly loaded: bank it or die and drop it.
- Bank — lock a haul in as permanent progress.
- Boosters — sustained afterburner when soak is not enough and you need distance.
- Warp — blink out of a pocket you cannot soak.
- Dogfight — open duel pressure when the shield comes down.
- Ambush — the pocket shield is built to survive.
- Mines — approach denial that forces rival paths.
- Turrets — planted guns on claimed hexes.
- Extract — once banked, leave contested space alive.
- Wishlist — Steam app 4296990, free browser + Early Access goal.
- Play — free browser asteroid PvP, no download.