If you want to try something different, I made a pair of shield based builds a while ago, in a thread called "Optimized Shield Use" IIRC. One of them had no Tome of Battle in it... I believe the build was Feat Rogue 2/Wolf Totem Whirling Frenzy Barbarian 2/Dungeoncrasher Fighter 6/War Hulk 10 on an Enlarged Personed Orc (Dragonborn Water Orc if you want to go all out). Take Shield Charge, Shield Slam, Shock Trooper, Knockback and some prerequisites, and use a +1 Valorous Skillful Spiked Shield of Bashing (plus any other mods you like). Go nuts, basically by charging around the battlefield knocking over. Every time you charge, anyone hit by your attack must save against your insane strength score or be dazed and tripped, which triggers a second attack (since you got Improved Trip from Wolf Totem). You can attack everyone within reach with your attacks too. Plus, you knock them back, meaning you can charge again next round, and because they're both dazed and tripped they can't actually do anything. Shock Trooper even lets you aim where you knock them back to, allowing you to collect all the bad guys in a big pile and shove them around the battlefield. And hey, you even do solid power attack damage. Whee!
So, that's an idea.
JaronK