Shield Wall Fighting - how would you model it?

[Flying Toaster]

I think a centre grip round actually works quite well for a shield wall. If it is set up properly, you can have them overlapping a long way, and alternating out-in (i.e. a person will be holding his shield out, and the people on either side will be holding their shields closer in, so his shield is partially covering theirs) to stop people turning the shields (a major weakness of centre grip shields).
Also, with the head being fairly well protected, and hard to hit, and legs being very hard to hit in a shield wall press, a large round shield protects very well.


As for rules-wise, one obvious application is that people in a shield wall would have all front hexes protected by shields, not just front+front-left (for a left-handed shield).

Perhaps applying a major penalty to target the torso without having to punch through the shield, since the shields will largely be covering the torso area?