Combat changes the more you advance. From the newbie stages of standing toe-to-toe and then hightailing it, waiting to heal a little and heading in for more, your gain more knowledge and more commands. It becomes possible to beat enemies tougher than you and to beat them convincingly. For example you come across a lost hunter who seems tougher than you. Have a look at his weapons (possibly a scout knife and walking stick), and have a look at yours (lets say you have a good honest mace of Klatchian black steel). Time to fight. You need to have tactics when in combat, and that doesn’t mean you just set them via the options arrangements. You need to use whatever commands are at your disposal.

How do you win this fight? (THE FOLLOWING IS ONLY AN EXAMPLE)

beat hunter with mace
bash hunter with mace

Then rest your Guild Points and then

feint at hunter with mace
smash hunter with mace

A little explanation: The first move there beat the hunter’s scout knife away from me. This opened him up for a nice attack which I provided with a good bash across the head (for the sake of ease he’s not wearing a helm and you are focusing on this). That is a good delivery, and a good few HPs knocked off him. I then stepped in with a nice false step to his left yet tricking the hunter and causing in to be blindsided with a good smashing attack from the right. This all sounds very grandiose, but I’m just trying to paint you a picture here of combat and how it can work for you.

Think about the fight and what works for you. If you have a bottle of healing tea in your bag, step back and have a swig, relax, then go dashing in. A good way to carry these moves out is by aliases.

alias bb beat $*$ with mace;bash $*$ with mace

alias fs feint at $*$ with mace;smash $*$ with mace

See that! You can carry this out on anyone foolish enough to get in your way! So for this fight all you’d have to do is type bb hunter during combat followed by fs hunter.

So, your commands for this fight could be something like this:

wc Er!
You prepare to shout "Er!” upon joining combat.
ki hunter
You shout: Er!
You attack a lost hunter.
bb hunter
You prepare to beat aside the hunter's weapon.
You prepare to bash the hunter.
fs hunter
You prepare to feint at the hunter.
You prepare to smash the hunter.

The skills used above require fighting.special.weapon, and the warcry uses fighting.special.tactics. Remember to play around, and if you wish choose a beggar or a vulture to practice this on. Long practice makes short work!