History Main / DeployableCover

** The [[VideoGame/Unreal2TheAwakening sequel]] featured laser barriers you could set up by placing special portable posts. It played vital role in several defensive scenarios.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Sheryl's gang uses portable DeflectorShields barriers, originally to barricade their HomeBase, but after they TookALevelInBadass into MenOfSherwood territory, they use these on the sides of flat bed trucks for a contract clearing a road of TheSwarm of huge monsters, as well as presumably during TheSiege. They take advantage of their mobile nature to swap out barriers as they take damage.

** Orisa can throw down a stationary force field wall that protects her and her comrades from one direction.

* 8 In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', the Allied GI units can deploy sandbags which gives them increased damage resistance and also allows them to deploy their machine guns, but this renders them immobile. The Guadian GI in the expansion can do the same, using metal plates instead and deploying a missile launcher. This increases their damage resistance but also protects them from being turned into roadkill by vehicles. How they get sandbags and metal plates [[HyperspaceArsenal anybody's guess]][[labelnote:*]]Although the Guardian GI's slower movement speed can be explained due to their armor and carrying the metal plates.[[/labelnote]] and worse, how they set them up in less than a second. .

* GI units in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' can deploy sandbags which gives them increased resistance and also allows them to use their machine guns, but makes them immobile. The Guardian GI in the expansion can do the same, but using metal plates instead which makes them impervious from getting roadkilled by vehicles. How they get sandbags and metal plates is [[HyperspaceArsenal anybody's guess]], and worse, how they set them up in less than a second. GDI riflemen in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'' can build foxholes, which are basically GarrisonableStructures though this cost some cash and takes a while to build, and if you leave them empty, the enemy can use them too.

** Similarly, [[spoiler: In the collector base mission, one of your party must create a Biotic shield to repel seekers and maintain it during the fight.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' has the sub-weapon Splash Wall, which is basically a pair of windshield wipers on a rig set up to spray a wall of ink to block enemy fire. They have limited duration and durability, but immediately splat anyone trying to go through them.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: Ultra-Tech'' has various portable force screen generators while ''High-Tech'' provides explosives blankets which SWAT officers can use backward to protect themselves from attack.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Nothing to do with]] [[ContemptibleCover deplorable covers]].

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': [[SquishyWizard Zerg Defiler]] can cast a spell that creates a cover, rendering all direct ranged attacks useless against units under it, including your own.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Sheryl's gang uses portable DeflectorShields barriers, originally to barricade their HomeBase, but after they TookALevelInBadass into MenOfSherwood territory, they use these on the sides of flat bed trucks for a contract clearing a road of TheSwarm of huge monsters, as well as presumably during TheSiege. They take advantage of their mobile nature swap out barriers as they take damage.

* A ''very'' [[NotTheIntendedUse unconventional use]] of fairies in ''Anime/FairyGone'': these beings are impervious to bullets, so their users can manifest them as mobile cover as needed.

** Unless you empty them out first and find your own dirt later...

** In [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI 1915-1917]], (Allied) armies experimented with the use of a "creeping barrage" tactic, where the artillery would continually lay down fire just ahead of the advancing troops, using the shell blasts themselves as a form of cover. Creeping barrages soon became obsolete when the Germans realised (as a result of trying to conserve their increasingly scarce ammunition) that short, concentrated, and intense barrages on short sections of the enemy lines followed by lightening-fast assaults and break-throughs[[note]] the rest of the force following through these bridgeheads to encircle and force the surrender of/exterminate the forward sections of the enemy line[[/note]] were much more effective than either creeping barrages or the massive (week-)long barrages (followed up methodically but painfully slowly across a broad front) that had proceeded them both. 'Creeping Barrages' and 'Massive Barrages' were just too slow to result in anything more than tactical advances, as the enemy would always have enough time to bring up reserves to strengthen their lines, something that brief barrages followed by rapid assaults and breakthroughs managed to avoid (In theory, anyway. In practice, Germany's logistics capabilities were always too weak to properly sustain strategic offensives).

* In ''TabletopGame/TheLordOfTheRingsStrategyBattleGame'', Corsair Arbalesters carry around big wooden pavises.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': The "Fish of Fury" tactic was a much-hated but technically legal maneuver for Tau players where GlassCannon Fire Warriors could be deployed behind their Devilfish transport, and because the Devilfish is a HoverTank, it allowed the Fire Warriors to shoot enemies behind the tank while preventing said enemies from shooting the Fire Warriors (or if they did shoot back, anti-infantry weapons don't do much against vehicles).