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For the Blad design, wouldn't another good idea be to put stabilizing lines of forbidding between the tips of the ellipses, so they are outside the defense? They would stabilize and anchor it, not restrict movement, and also protect from incoming attacks.

That would be great, but unfortunately it won't quite work.  If you connect the tips of the ellipses, this is what will happen:

You could decrease the size of the portion that is cut off by playing with the dimensions of the ellipses, but you are never going to get the tip of the ellipse to stay inside that sharp angle at the top.  The only Line of Forbiddance that touches the bind point at the tip and doesn't intersect the rest of the ellipse is the tangent line, which would be perpendicular to the major axis and thus never reach the second ellipse.  You could contain the entire diagram in a square, but then you also can't attack.

If we could get bind points in places other than the tips, then a variation on your idea might work well.  I have ideas for how we might be able to construct elliptic defenses with more bind points, but writing that up will require more coherence than I have this time of night ;-)