Don't go rushing into your next battle as you will be severely disadvantaged. Remember that you can recover health, if you just survived a battle with a sliver of health just chill and stand around. So try to not always sprint, and manage your stamina such that if push comes to shove you will have the stamina advantage during a long and arduous duel. Stamina is very important because with no stamina you can't perform any action and even a successful block will leave you stunned and helpless. However armed with a maul, every trade is a trade you win.

An inexperienced opponent will try to attack you, however since you're on the last stage of the attack this will cause them to get hit. Thus, you can start your windup early and rush to your opponent's range. Some weapons like the maul fit well into this strategy, the weapon has tremendous power however has a slow wind up and attack speed. Due to the knight's high defense you can trade blows with the enemy and come out on top. What this means is, with certain classes like the Knight you can commit to an attack knowing that you will get hit. Lastly, after the windup all attacks cannot be interrupted. Also, during a feint a player is relatively defenseless so you can use this to your advantage and attack them if you KNOW that they're going to feint (this requires knowledge of how your enemy plays, and is essentially a 'read' on the opponents next move) However feinting does take stamina, and you can use this against your opponent by continually moving and not getting fooled by their feints. You'll see a lot of this with more experienced player they will chain feints until you start parrying before they'll commit to an attack. The basic uses for a feint is to fool an enemy into blocking/parrying. What the defending must do is somehow force the attacker to whiff, block attacks and punish or kick the enemy away. With speedy weapons it is possible to link a barrage of attacks to prevent enemies from attacking. As they get close you are at risk of getting interrupted, however you can always kick them away if you need some breathing room.Īll melee weapon attacks have a windup, during the windup you can be interrupted cancelling the rest of the attack. With a large weapon like the halberd you'll want to stay outside the range of small weapons and try to poke away as they try to approach. With the speed of the falchion you can interrupt enemy attacks and constantly sidestepping trying to get behind the enemy making your attacks harder to block. Offense centers a lot on your weapon of choice, fast, short and deadly weapons like the falchion will make you want to be upclose. Just be aware that your enemy is probably doing the same and you're constantly contesting each other and trying to force an error. Vary your walking and running patterns in battle and move in and out of the enemy's range to make them whiff an attack. Your goal in terms of spacing is to make the enemy whiff an attack and punish them. Always try to remain in your weapon's optimal range and if possible stay out of your enemy's range. As a rule of thumb shorter weapons are faster and long weapons are slower. It is extremely important to know the range of your weapon vs the enemy's. This might be an issue you're having trouble with and in which case the only way to improve is to continually fight with the same weapon setups until you get better.Īnother aspect of defense that is important is spacing. You need to look vertically at the sky to block an upclose vertical dane axe attack and that means looking away at the enemy which some players may feel uncomfortable about. One example is the dane axe, it can appear to clip shields or be unblockable but the problem is that the defender is not compensating enough to block the weapon. Often you hear chatter about how some weapons are inherently harder to block because of their range and/or shape. In order to block you have to be starring at the end of the enemy's weapon and it has to be as close to the center of the screen as possible. Many players have problems with blocking in chivalry because they don't understand how the blocking/parrying mechanics work. I like the oft used quote with chivalry players: 'You have to block with your face'.

You can get lucky with attacks but defense is completely in your control and if you have stellar defense you can force your enemy to make mistakes and punish them for it. To answer your question in my opinion, in the long run practicing defense is more important than offense. I won't be writing about classes and I'll try to talk more about mechanics rather than specific strategies (although I might note a few). This is a big question to be quite honest so I'll break the answer down to smaller bits regarding defense, attack and so on.

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