Shield Stat Tweaks/Buff Swadian Resilience

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Swadian Resilience Stats:
Resistance(body armor): 41
Hit points: 1400
Speed: 89
Shield Height: 70
Weapon length: 35

Royal Shield Stats:
Resistance(body armor): 45
Hit points: 1250
Speed: 90
Shield Height: 50
Weapon length: 30

According to my research on the Warband wiki, shield resistance is factored in as a subtraction from each hit on the shield. Ex. if a 60c swing weapon hits the royal shield, the resistance takes away 45c of that hit, leaving only 15 damage to the shield.
With this math (ignoring shield bonuses based on class), it would take 83 hits from a 60c swing weapon to break a royal shield theoretically. It would take only around 74 hits from a 60c swing weapon to break a swadian resilience.

Considering the Swadian Resilience is more expensive than a royal shield is, it doesn't make sense that it is worse. It currently costs the same amount to craft as an aegis shield, yet the aegis shield can sustain 103 hits from a 60c swing weapon with that math. 74 to 103. Pretty big difference considering they both cost the same to craft. The only time the Swadian Resilience can outshine an aegis shield or royal shield is against bots with weapons that have bonus against shields (since that negates the shield resistance factor), but still the resilience only has 50 more hp than aegis, so still not worth it for that, since aegis is so much sturdier against other waves.

This is why I think the Swadian Resilience needs to have stats tweaked. Either the hit points need to be buffed by quite a lot (even buffing to 1550 hit points would leave it slightly below what a royal can withstand), or more preferably, the resistance needs to be buffed by a few points. Either that, or make the shield cheaper to craft, at least as cheap as the royal.

It really doesn't make sense to have 4 shields (small dragon kite shield, swadian resilience, swadian studded steel shield, and aegis) to all be the exact same crafting recipe, yet the aegis stats are so obviously better than the three other shields by such a substantial amount that those other shields are rarely even used.