Quote Originally Posted by Geoffrey S
Try whacking someone upside the head with a 10-20 kilo shield and see how well they fare... trust me, it'd hurt. And you'd get arrested.
The problem with whacking someone over the head with your shield is that it means raising it overhead and thus exposing your abdomen for a nice underhand stab, so it is probably you who'd get hurt. It is possible you could knock someone unconscious by hitting them on the jaw from below, but the main function of the shield bash is to get your opponent unbalanced, not actually killing. Perhaps we could get a combined bash-and-stab animation, but this may be a bit too much to ask.