I've done some looking around on the forums before I asked this question and please forgive me if it's already been discussed and I missed it but I only saw it mentioned in passing in one thread.
Are shields supposed to increase the AP it takes for your character to attack or is this a bug? For example, my sword and board Dwarf goes to attack at melee range. The game declares it will cost me 1 AP to attack but executing the attack costs me 2 AP, this is repeated in every attack and I take no other actions.
Is this confirmed somewhere as a feature of shields or could it be a bug?