You can hold a block without moving, which will let you fend off standard attacks, but it costs a lot of stamina and leaves the initiative to your opponent.
Timing is the key to perfect weapon mastery. Following a successful clinch break, your opponent is briefly disoriented, which you should quickly take advantage of. The difficulty of a clinch is influenced by the difference between your strength and combat skills and those of your opponent. ClinchĪs soon as you near your opponent and press the Kick button your weapons will cross in a clinch and you will have to press the attack button quickly to overpower your opponent and break his defence. Some combos demand not only a combination of strong and weak strikes, but also changes in direction between strikes. If you succeed in hitting your opponent with all the strikes in a combo and he does not block or evade them, your last strike will take the form of a special technique against which there is no defence. Mastering chained strikes is essential for performing combos.Ī combo is chain of specific strikes executed quickly one after another in a given order. You should press the attack button at the moment your weapon hits the opponent or his weapon or shield. You can take advantage of this to execute a feint: draw your weapon back, but before striking, change the direction suddenly, strike at a zone where you opponent doesn't expect it.īy striking repeatedly you can execute a chain of strikes. Your opponent will find it harder to block a strike in a zone other than the one where he is holding his weapon or shield.
At this stage, more options are available to you in the inventory.Īfter each attack, your attack zone changes naturally and the next strike then comes from a different direction, unless you change it yourself before striking. If you're still in combat, but no one is attacking you directly, the icon below the compass changes to an uncrossed pair of swords. During combat, you can switch weapons in your inventory you can't change your armour or eat to recover health. You'll know you're in cmobat or someone is about to attack you from the crossed swords icon beneath the compass at the top of the screen. The best weapons to use against armour are those with high blunt impact (maces, axes, hammers), while against a lightly armour opponent it's better to use a weapon with a higher level of slashing and stabbing power (swords, sabres). On the contrary, if your foe is in plate armour, you'll have to wear him down and exhaust him before you can cause him any real damage. If you're wearing plate armour and carrying a shield, sometimes that alone will save you without having to defend yourself actively, especially against a less experienced opponent. You can also save some stamina by using a shield to block. The better the armor, the less health and stamina his strikes will cost you. You can take the edge of a foe's strikes by wearing armor. If any of the zones is greyed out, it's not possible to strike there for now. You select the zone of attack in the combat rose using. You can disengage from the opponent using. You can lock the combat rose onto one foe using and, if you're facing more than one opponent, you can toggle between them by pressing again. If you're close to your adversary, you can use to get into a clinch with him. For a normal block, you don't have to hold your weapon in the same zone that your opponent is aiming at.
You can block any strike that comes from in front with. In unarmed combat that means a jab to the face, with a weapon a stab with the point of the blade. Using you attack with a faster, but weaker strike. In a fistfight, this control executes a right or left hook to the head, in armed combat a slashing strike. Using you execute a basic strike, which is strong, but slow. It's possible to fight unarmed, with various weapons and even mounted on horseback. Prior Knowledge When things get out of hand, it can escalate to a fight.
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